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The Power to Compete: Benchmarking the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act on Clean Energy Innovation and Competitiveness
A new policy brief by the Breakthrough Institute and Americans for Energy Leadership, "The Power to Compete?", provides the first independent analysis of how the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act would impact U.S. competitiveness in the global clean energy industry. |
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"Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness: Opportunities for America COMPETES Reauthorization"
In a new policy report, the Breakthrough Institute, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program call on Congress to strengthen clean energy competitiveness through the America COMPETES reauthorization. |
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A New Approach on Global Climate Policy
Global climate policy should be radically overhauled in the wake of the failure of the United Nations process, an international group of 14 climate policy experts and scientists argue in the "Hartwell Paper." Instead of the failed Kyoto-Copenhagen focus on national emissions targets and timetables, what's needed is a focus on expanding access to energy for the poor, quickly reducing non-CO2 climate forcings, and adaptation to changing climate. |
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"Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant" Report Overview
Benchmarking clean-tech competitiveness: A new report by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation provides the first comprehensive analysis of competitive positions among the U.S. and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race. |
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A New Approach on Global Climate Policy
Global climate policy should be radically overhauled in the wake of the failure of the United Nations process, an international group of 14 climate policy experts and scientists argue in the "Hartwell Paper." Instead of the failed Kyoto-Copenhagen focus on national emissions targets and timetables, what's needed is a focus on expanding access to energy for the poor, quickly reducing non-CO2 climate forcings, and adaptation to changing climate.
May 2010
April 2010
January 2010
Copenhagen Coverage
This post documents Breakthrough's coverage of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen for those looking to understand the significance of this international event.
December 2009
Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead--and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy technology. Nordhaus and Shellenberger in Democracy Journal. (PDF)
June 2008
April 2010
April 2009
March 2009
June 2008
January 2008
June 2010
April 2010
April 2010
February 2010
"Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant" Report Overview
Benchmarking clean-tech competitiveness: A new report by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation provides the first comprehensive analysis of competitive positions among the U.S. and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
November 2009
November 2009
March 2010
December 2009
The Steps Not Yet Taken
A chapter from Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 2: From Climate to Chromosomes by Roger Pielke and Dan Sarewitz (PDF)
April 2008
May 2007
May 2009
May 2009
October 2007
October 2007
October 2004
February 2009
November 2006
November 2006
Toward a Renewed Social Contract
A Proposal to Frame the Debate and Advance a Progressive Values Agenda Around Preparedness and Reconstruction in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (PDF)
November 2006
Health Care for Hybrids
Investing in Oil Savings, Retiree Health Care, and a Revitalized Auto Industry for a Stronger America by Bracken Hendricks, Ted Nordhaus, Roland Hwang and Nick Shipley. (PDF)
June 2005
November 2009
June 2009
January 2009
June 2007
June 2007
Writings by Type::
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Presentations
February 2010
June 2009
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Reports and Policy Memos
A New Approach on Global Climate Policy
Global climate policy should be radically overhauled in the wake of the failure of the United Nations process, an international group of 14 climate policy experts and scientists argue in the "Hartwell Paper." Instead of the failed Kyoto-Copenhagen focus on national emissions targets and timetables, what's needed is a focus on expanding access to energy for the poor, quickly reducing non-CO2 climate forcings, and adaptation to changing climate.
May 2010
April 2010
"Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant" Report Overview
Benchmarking clean-tech competitiveness: A new report by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation provides the first comprehensive analysis of competitive positions among the U.S. and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
November 2009
May 2009
May 2009
January 2009
June 2008
October 2007
June 2007
June 2007
November 2006
Global Warming Preparedness
A Proposal to Manage Risk & Invest in Resilient Communities. Created in the Fall of 2006 by The Breakthrough Institute, The Center for American Progress, and American Environics. (PDF)
November 2006
November 2006
Toward a Renewed Social Contract
A Proposal to Frame the Debate and Advance a Progressive Values Agenda Around Preparedness and Reconstruction in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (PDF)
November 2006
Health Care for Hybrids
Investing in Oil Savings, Retiree Health Care, and a Revitalized Auto Industry for a Stronger America by Bracken Hendricks, Ted Nordhaus, Roland Hwang and Nick Shipley. (PDF)
June 2005
June 2003
Essays and Long Articles
April 2010
March 2010
November 2009
November 2009
The Flawed Logic of The Cap-and-Trade Debate
Two prominent -- and iconoclastic -- environmentalists argue that current efforts to tax or cap carbon emissions are doomed to failure and that the answer lies not in making dirty energy expensive but in making clean energy cheap. (Yale e360)
May 2009
May 2009
May 2009
April 2009
December 2008
Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead--and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy technology. Nordhaus and Shellenberger in Democracy Journal. (PDF)
June 2008
The Steps Not Yet Taken
A chapter from Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 2: From Climate to Chromosomes by Roger Pielke and Dan Sarewitz (PDF)
April 2008
January 2008
October 2007
October 2007
October 2005
October 2004
Op-Eds and Short Articles
March 2010
March 2010
December 2009
July 2009
April 2009
Obama is just blowing smoke
The White House says it's serious about climate change. But its plan to regulate carbon emissions is doomed to fail. ... Nordhaus and Shellenberger in Slate.
April 2009
April 2009
March 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
The Green Bubble Bursts
Amid the energy crisis, Democrats are losing the high ground on the environment to a GOP that is pushing oil drilling. Nordhaus and Shellenberger in the LA Times.
September 2008
June 2008
June 2008
May 2008
December 2007
September 2006
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