Senior Research Scholar @ColumbiaSIPA & Director, Trade & the Clean Energy Transition Program @ColumbiaUEnergy. Non-Resident Senior Fellow @CIPolicy
Joined May 2016
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New US tariffs on solar products will strengthen US manufacturers—but tariffs alone won't build a domestic solar supply chain.
💻 In our latest #EnergyExplained blog post, CGEP experts @trevorcsutton, Swad Sathe & Evelyne Williams explain why onshoring will require major capacity build-out.
Read here: energypolicy.columbia.edu/ne…
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Next, @trevorcsutton & @SagatomSaha looked at the risks and opportunities of the EU's green trade agenda encouraging more ambitious climate regulations around the world including with the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. (9) brookings.edu/articles/the-r…
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Read @trevorcsutton on how Congress can “claw back its rightful authority” over U.S. trade policy:
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Was a fun conversation!
A major US Supreme Court ruling just reshaped the tariff landscape—raising big questions for energy trade and sanctions policy.
🎧 On this week's #ColumbiaEnergyExchange, host @JasonBordoff speaks with CGEP experts @RichardMNephew and Trevor Sutton about what it means for oil, gas, and clean energy 👉 energypolicy.columbia.edu/us…
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The @CIPolicy, run by @mattduss and @NancyGEO, has operated below the radar the last couple years, but could turn out to be a big deal in certain increasingly imaginable timelines... nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/po…
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The US is reshaping global trade—and Southeast Asia's clean energy future—through new, highly coercive bilateral deals.
💻 In our latest #EnergyExplained post, CGEP experts @trevorcsutton, @SallyQEnergy, and Evelyne Williams unpack these agreements: energypolicy.columbia.edu/be…
Trevor Sutton retweeted
The US is reshaping global trade—and Southeast Asia's clean energy future—through new, highly coercive bilateral deals.
💻 In our latest #EnergyExplained post, CGEP experts @trevorcsutton, @SallyQEnergy, and Evelyne Williams unpack these agreements: energypolicy.columbia.edu/be…
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Europe’s new carbon tariff takes effect in the new year. Here’s what you need to know about how it works, and how it’s already influencing the international market.
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Excellent piece that captures the nuances of the CBAM debate
CGEP trade expert @trevorcsutton tells @CanaryMediaInc's @mariagallucci that CBAM "has helped drive a conversation & elevated the salience of carbon pricing" in other countries, while also setting "a foundation for decarbonization of European industry."
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Trevor Sutton retweeted
How is China's growing dominance in clean energy shaping its new assertive trade strategy?
💻 In our latest #EnergyExplained blog post, CGEP experts @trevorcsutton & Evelyne Williams explore the link between global trade power & clean energy leadership: energypolicy.columbia.edu/ho…
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How could the EU's new 50% tariffs on steel shape global trade & the path to green industry?
💻 In our latest #EnergyExplained blog post, CGEP expert @trevorcsutton examines how the proposal to curb excess steel capacity & drive decarbonization could heighten trade tensions. 👇
Trevor Sutton retweeted
The @IMOHQ just endorsed what could become the first binding global carbon pricing mechanism in international law: its #NetZero Framework.
In a new commentary, CGEP's Evelyne Williams & @trevorcsutton highlight the practical gaps that will determine whether it succeeds. 🧵👇
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Providing a perspective on #sustainability & #trade in the US, Trevor Sutton of @ColumbiaUEnergy underscores a broader opportunity towards creative solutions: what plurilateral & bilateral agreements on trade can countries pursue that are more sustainability and climate centered?
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“Democrats need a much broader, much more salient anticorruption plan moving forward—one that is at the center of their platform rather than at the periphery,” argue @cjcmichel, @trevorcsutton, and @mattduss.
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.@cjcmichel, @trevorcsutton, and @mattduss explain how corruption undermines U.S. interests at home and abroad—and make the case for “a full-throated campaign to restore transparency, accountability, and integrity” to U.S. institutions:
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Anticorruption experts at @CIPolicy & @HRF’s Combating Kleptocracy Program recently published a @ForeignAffairs piece with a bold agenda for fighting bribery & self-dealing: foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Their policy recommendations are summarized in this memo: internationalpolicy.org/publ…
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The system is rigged. Our government has been captured by wealthy interests who enrich themselves while everyone else struggles.
Unrigging the system and making it work for working people should be the Democrats’ message.
Our piece in @ForeignAffairs
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"The United States may have given up its leading role in the fight against corruption, but Americans still care about it."
@mattduss, @trevorcsutton, and @cjcmichel in @ForeignAffairs
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Fighting corruption shouldn't just be a foreign policy priority. Democrats should embrace it as part of their broader domestic agenda.
New from @cjcmichel, @trevorcsutton and me in @ForeignAffairs. foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
More from @mattduss and I, this time with the inestimable @cjcmichel.
“Biden’s failure to match rhetoric with action does not mean that future U.S. officials should stop trying to align foreign policy with the broader project of restoring faith in democratic governance,” argue @cjcmichel, @trevorcsutton, and @mattduss.
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