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Commentary
Apr 10, 2025
U.S.-Brazil cooperation could unlock sustainable infrastructure for data centers at a time when America’s energy constraints threaten its tech ambitions.
Expert Insights
Mar 31, 2025
This author explores Hezbollah's operational footprint in Latin America — focusing on illicit funding mechanisms, violent operations, and key operational hubs — and situates it within Iran's regional diplomatic, economic, and cultural activities.
Research
Mar 24, 2025
This study analyzes time trends for extreme weight categories in Brazil. Severe obesity is increasing far more rapidly than what commonly reported obesity statistics indicate.
Feb 5, 2025
Communities across the United States can learn from the experiences of cities that have had to confront major water supply crises and start planning now to avoid the worst impacts of future droughts.
Jan 15, 2025
In this report, the authors examine the experiences of five cities with severe or catastrophic water supply risks to identify steps that could be taken ahead of time to mitigate those risks and build urban water security.
Feb 28, 2024
This paper presents a new concept, Punt Politics, and applies it to the COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) in two epicenters of the pandemic: Mexico and Brazil.
Nov 7, 2022
China's foreign investment and financing activities over the past two decades have garnered substantial attention and raised concerns. This report explores Chinese investment and financing activities in energy infrastructure and critical minerals.
Apr 7, 2022
This Lessons Map is a matrix that describes common themes and elements across five case studies for achieving impact at scale in the field of early childhood development, despite the different contexts of the case studies.
Aug 10, 2021
This Perspective is an exploration of some of the ways the Brazilian Navy could use unmanned systems to improve effectiveness and, potentially, reduce risks and costs while meeting a wide range of demands over vast and diverse geographic areas.
Jun 22, 2021
Case study on the advocacy efforts of the National Network of Early Childhood (RNPI) in collaboration with governmental institutions to introduce a Legal Framework for Early Childhood Development in Brazil.
Dec 15, 2020
India and Brazil are facing pressure to launch recoveries after the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Will they backslide on their Paris climate agreement commitments, or will the expected return of the United States to the pact encourage them to build a more sustainable economic future?
Nov 10, 2020
Here we investigate how to construct and validate a heat vulnerability index given uncertainty ranges in data for the city of Rio de Janeiro. We find that we can validate the heat vulnerability index against excess deaths during heat waves.
