Brookings Institution — Partnership brief

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Samantha Gross
Director, Energy Security and Climate Initiative; Fellow, Foreign Policy
Brookings Institution

Recent work

25+ years in energy/environmental affairs. Prior: Director of International Climate and Clean Energy at U.S. Department of Energy; visiting fellow at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Recent Brookings interview on Iran-war energy-market impacts (March 2026).

Signals the recipient responds to

Cross-cutting energy-security and climate framing
DOE alumna — credibility with executive-branch energy community
Comfortable with geopolitical-economic complexity
Non-ideological centrist register

Organisational context

Positions

Brookings Energy Security and Climate Initiative publishes on the intersection of energy markets, geopolitics, and climate policy — a frame that positions proof-pack property-based disclosure as a market-discipline and energy-security story, not a climate-advocacy story.

Active initiatives

Brookings senior fellows on the initiative include Todd Stern (former U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change), David G. Victor (climate policy economist), Jeffrey Ball (Stanford energy scholar). Rich co-authorship network.

Pressures

Brookings is the convening venue the federal administration and Congressional staff read first on market-based policy design.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: A Brookings-hosted roundtable on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a bipartisan federal procurement standard lands in the exact centrist policy-design register Gross's initiative occupies. The deliverable — a joint Brookings-Trellison policy brief — gives Gross a publication in her domain and gives the release arsenal the Brookings imprimatur that all subsequent Congressional engagement draws from.

Why now: FY27 federal procurement cycle opens in 2026. A Brookings brief by late-Q2 2026 lands in time.

The ask: 30-minute exploratory conversation on a Brookings-hosted roundtable. Attachment: one-page proposal with the specific roundtable participant list including Wilcox successor, Reinhard, Planavsky, a corporate buyer CFO, and a congressional staff representative.

Think tank: Brookings Institution
Target program: Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Key contacts: Samantha Gross, Director — Energy Security and Climate Initiative; ESGCI senior fellows

Why this think tank

Brookings's centrist policy frame — market-discipline + climate ambition — matches proof-pack positioning. Brookings-hosted convenings route into both administrations and Congress.

The ask

A Brookings-hosted policy roundtable on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a bipartisan federal procurement standard. Trellison provides the technical spec, Brookings provides the convening and the framing.

Deliverable

A joint Brookings-Trellison policy brief: 'Per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a federal carbon-removal procurement standard'.

Context materials Trellison can provide

Proof-pack schema specification (one-page and full technical versions)
Reinhard & Planavsky 2026 npj Climate Action paper summary
Roster of researchers available for joint work
Alpha proof-pack instances for inspection
Corporate-buyer and registry-operator contacts expressing interest in integration testing