Climate Intelligence
Addressing Plastics’ Climate Risk
Petrochemicals like plastics are key to modern life but generate 3% ¬– 10% of global GHG emissions. These briefs break down petrochemical demand and ways to cut it.
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A Matter of Time: Three Ways to Clarify Emissions Data
Each pollutant that warms our planet has a different potency and lifetime in the atmosphere — not unlike the pace and endurance of different runners.
Climate Intelligence
Clean Energy 101: Reducing Climate Pollution from the Plastics Industry
We need a clearer picture of carbon emissions from plastic, so we can decarbonize the production and disposal of this common material.
Climate Intelligence
Clean Energy 101: Carbon Accounting
What is carbon accounting and how can it help corporations reduce their emissions?…
Climate Intelligence
Accounting for Impact
Decades-old accounting and reporting guidance has not kept up with the changing climate or evolving emissions reduction solutions.
Climate Intelligence
Intel from Above: Spotting Methane Super-Emitters with Satellites
Methane-monitoring satellites can help pinpoint and mitigate super-emitters of this potent greenhouse gas in our decisive climate decade.
Climate Intelligence
Clean Energy 101: Methane-Detecting Satellites
A new metric of satellite completeness can help decision makers better understand the strengths and limitations of various satellite technologies.
Climate Intelligence
Cryptocurrency’s Energy Consumption Problem
RMI explores what has been done and what still needs to be done to decarbonize the energy-intensive cryptocurrency industry.
Climate Intelligence
Toward a Technology Ecosystem for Carbon Accounting
Open standards and data formats, and their acceptance by the industry accelerate and guide the growth of a rich accounting ecosystem, harnessing the power of the marketplace to monumentally shift the way greenhouse gas emissions…
Carbon Markets
From Paper to People: Bringing Equity to Carbon Markets
To ensure the rights and needs of Indigenous peoples and local communities, we must look at the voluntary carbon market through an equity lens.