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U.S. Energy and Climate Policy
April 2012
April 2012
November 2011
October 2011
July 2011
June 2011
June 2011
Know Your Heritage: The Heritage Foundation's Incoherent Attack On Public Investment in Energy Innovation
The Heritage Foundation recently proposed a near dismantling of the Department of Energy in the name of budget deficit reduction. But their proposal includes numerous inconsistencies and inaccuracies to justify eliminating programs vital to the United States energy innovation system. In response, the Breakthrough Institute, along with ITIF and Americans for Energy Leadership, detail point-by-point the fundamental inaccuracies of Heritage's proposal.
April 2011
"Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena" - Report Overview
"Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena" finds extensive evidence and a strong expert consensus that a large amount of the energy savings from below-cost energy efficiency are eroded by demand 'rebound effects,' and that in some cases the rebound exceeds the savings, resulting in increased energy consumption from efficiency, known as backfire. The report contains a comprehensive review of the expert literature.
February 2011
Why Climate Science Divides Us But Energy Technology Unites Us
Climate science was supposed to unite us, on the left and the right, and result in common, concerted action. Instead, the science of climate change has proved to be ideologically polarizing. In a speech for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus explain why climate science divides us. By contrast, energy technology may actually be able to transcend politics and unify Republicans and Democrats alike.
January 2011
Presentation: "Where Good Technologies Come From"
From hybrid crops to blockbuster drugs, nuclear power to wind power, and microchips to the Internet, government support was critical to the productive public-private partnerships that spawned so many revolutionary American technologies.
December 2010
WSJ: Forget the U.N. Climate Convention, Rethink Innovation Instead
Forcing countries to agree to emissions caps will never work, argue Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. The duo argues in a special Wall Street Journal column that the global community should think past U.N. climate talks in Cancun and focus instead on energy innovation, adaptation, and no regrets policies that do not require agreement about global warming.
November 2010
Economic Doctrines and Climate Change
Breakthrough's Devon Swezey speaks at an event unveiling a new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about how economic doctrines inform our views on how to address climate change, how conventional doctrines are failing, and what policies are needed for clean energy progress.
October 2010
October 2010
July 2010
June 2010
April 2010
March 2010
March 2010
January 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
November 2009
July 2009
June 2009
June 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
May 2009
May 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
February 2009
January 2009
January 2009
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
June 2008
May 2008
January 2008
October 2007
October 2007
October 2007
June 2007
June 2007
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
December 2005
October 2005
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
April 2005
October 2004
June 2003
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Michael Shellenberger, President
Ted Nordhaus, Chairman
The Breakthrough Institute
436 14th Street, Suite 820
Oakland, CA 94612
510.550.8800
Email for more information:
michael(at)thebreakthrough(dot)org
ted(at)thebreakthrough(dot)org)
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