Energy and Climate
Make clean energy cheap.
Access to affordable and reliable energy is absolutely essential for human development, but energy production takes a heavy toll on the environment. With demand for energy expected to grow for decades to come as developing nations emerge from poverty, substantial innovation into clean energy technologies will be necessary to achieve our ambitious goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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The End of Magical Climate Thinking
Originally published at Foreign PolicyThere was good reason to be hopeful in January of 2009 that the election of…
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Daily Breakthrough: Avatar, Eco-Paranoia, and Technology
UPDATE: Alternet and Buffalo Beast have both corrected their posts about Roger Pielke Jr. and Breakthrough and…
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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages
In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the…
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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 1: Climate Goals
A new climate bill, introduced Friday by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), would invest only a…
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The End of "Developing Countries"
In 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed that only developed…
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New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Promising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry…
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Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
In Yale e360.org, Ted and Michael make the case that the recent decline in the public's belief in global warming is…
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The Innovation Consensus: $15 Billion for Clean Energy R&D
$15 billion. That is the figure at the heart of a growing consensus of energy innovation experts, all calling for…
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Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill’s Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of…
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Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
Late Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the…