Thomas L. Brewer

Thomas L. Brewer is the author of a textbook published in 2024 by Springer: Climate Change - An Interdisciplinary Introduction.

He was a Lead Author of the chapter on International Cooperation in the AR5 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the author of a Cambridge University Press book published in 2014: The United States in a Warming World: The Political Economy of Government, Business and Public Responses to Climate Change. He. Is the editor and chapter author of a Springer Brief in Applied Sciences and Technology: Transportation Air Pollutants: Black Carbon and Other Emissions (2021). His current research focuses on Arctic warming issues. He has developed a proposal for an Arctic Black Carbon (ABC) agreement, which was presented at a COP21 side event, workshops in Washington, DC, and other venues. His on-going research focusses on Arctic Warming: Problems and Solutions.

He is co-author of a World Bank Discussion Paper (2016), “Carbon Market Clubs and the New Paris Regime.” He made a presentation on Trade and Climate Change Issues for a workshop in 2015 in Beijing on “Bilateral Cooperation between China and the United States: Facilitating Progress on Climate-Change Policy," which was co-organized by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and the Chinese National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation.

He has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University in the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, and he has been a Schöller Foundation Senior Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg, Germany, a Visitor a the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.

He is an emeritus faculty member of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).