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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.
competes_thumb.png "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.
HartwellPaper_English_version.jpg 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.
Thumbnail image for Rising Tigers Cover.jpg "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.
Death_of_Environmentalism.jpg The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming in a Post Environmental World
Nordhaus and Shellenberger famously declare environmentalism dead, igniting a firestorm of controversy. (PDF)

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U.S. Energy and Climate Policy


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.
June 2010

April 2010

March 2010

Analysis of Waxman-Markey ACES Climate Bill: Full Breakthrough Institute Collection
Download Breakthrough's complete analysis of the bill [.ppsx]. Also underlying assumptions and calculations [.xlsx]
June 2009

Invest in New American Energy
A Pathway to a Clean and Prosperous American Energy Economy: Overview and Policy Recommendations
May 2009

International Climate Policy and Politics


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

The Emerging Climate Consensus: Global Warming Policy in a Post-Environmental World
A collection of Nordhaus and Shellenberger's post-Breakthrough writings. (PDF)
April 2010

The End of Magical Climate Thinking
One year ago, America's president said he was going to start a green-energy revolution. Here's why the Obama administration failed -- and what needs to come next. (Foreign Policy)
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

Energy Technology and Innovation


"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy" Report Overview
A report co-authored by the Breakthrough Institute and Third Way.
April 2010

BREAKTHROUGH REPORT: Case Studies in American Innovation
In a 2009 report, the Breakthrough Institute illuminates the stories behind the invention and diffusion of ten technologies that are everyday facets of our modern lives and offers a new look at government involvement in technological development.
April 2009

March 2009

National Energy Education Act
Concept Proposal developed by Breakthrough Staff. (PDF)
June 2008

Fast, Clean, & Cheap: Cutting Global Warming's Gordian Knot
Nordhaus, Shellenberger, Jeff Navin, Teryn Norris and Aden Van Noppen co-authored this treatise for the Harvard Law and Policy Review. (PDF)
January 2008

Clean Energy Competetiveness Policy


"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.
June 2010

Clean energy jobs CAN be shipped overseas (and what to do about it)
Cap and trade won't bring those jobs back to America. Here's what will...
April 2010

A Clean Energy Competitiveness Strategy for America
Accelerating U.S. clean technology innovation, manufacturing, and market creation has become not just an environmental necessity but an economic imperative. A report by Jesse Jenkins and Devon Swezey.
April 2010

Storm Clouds on the Clean Tech Horizon: Presentation to the Clean Tech Group
Presentation by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. (pptx)
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

Winning the Clean Energy Race: A New Strategy for American Leadership
Asian nations are set to dominate the clean energy industry without a major energy competitiveness project by the U.S. government.
November 2009

Science Policy and Politics


Sarewitz: Why Climate Science Won't Solve Climate Change
More research makes the controversy worse, says Breakthrough Senior Fellow Dan Sarewitz in Slate.
March 2010

Science Can't Tell Us What to Do
Climate change e-mail scandal underscores myth of pure science. Breakthrough Senior Fellow Dan Sarewitz and co-author Samuel Thernstrom in an LA Times op-ed.
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

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
Download the intro to Roger Pielke's 2007 book here. (PDF)
May 2007

Environmentalism and Political Philosophy


May 2009

May 2009

Second Life: A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism
Nordhaus and Shellenberger in The New Republic. (PDF)
October 2007

Break Through Introduction
The introduction to the Nordhaus and Shellenberger's full length successor to the Death of Environmentalism. (PDF)
October 2007

The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming in a Post Environmental World
Nordhaus and Shellenberger famously declare environmentalism dead, igniting a firestorm of controversy. (PDF)
October 2004

Economy and Social Policy


Obama Needs an Economic Philosophy
Teryn Norris and Adam Zemel in the Huffington Post.
February 2009

Fresh Start: A Proposal to Rebuild LIves through the Redemptive Power of Work
This document was 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

Public Opinion and Social Values


November 2009

June 2009

January 2009

Survey of Public Opinion on Global Warming and Policy Approaches
Failure to Address Energy Anxiety Could Derail Global Warming Policies. (PDF)
June 2007

Energy Attitudes: An Analysis of Opinion Research on Energy and Global Warming
An Analysis of Opinion Research on Energy and Global Warming conducted by Jeff Navin and American Environics. (PDF)
June 2007


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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. A new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, possibility, not limits. Coming October 4, 2007
 
 
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