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Areas of Innovation
Rocket Ships and Corporate Commitments: The Newest Tools in the Fight Against Climate Change
Elon Musk isn’t the only person to have big plans for innovation in the final frontier of space. In fact, as climate change continues to threaten a two-degree warming limit for this planet, one organization is going extraterrestrial to try and lock down the most dangerous greenhouse gas emissions we…
Cutting Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Production: One of the Year’s Biggest Energy Challenges
Leave it to the rocket scientists to solve our biggest climate mysteries. That’s exactly what NASA has done to kick off 2018, using a spectrometer imaging satellite to measure global methane emissions—a potent greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change—and revealing an alarming increase in these emissions that threatens our climate.
Digging for Carbon Cuts: How the Mining Industry Can Win with Renewables
An unprecedented drop in renewable energy prices, the high energy intensity of mining, and the volatility of fossil fuel pricing have combined to create a groundbreaking opportunity for decarbonizing the mining industry—no pun intended! Seriously, the sustainability opportunity in front of mining companies across the world is no joking matter,…
Does “Fuel On Hand” Make Coal and Nuclear Power Plants More Valuable?
On April 14, Energy Secretary Rick Perry sent a memo ordering a 60-day departmental study of whether federal policies favoring an unnamed competitor—evidently renewable electricity like solar and windpower—are constraining supposedly vital “baseload” plants (impliedly coal and nuclear), to the assumed detriment of grid reliability and resilience. Existing studies by grid …
What Salad and Ice Cream Tell Us about Climate Finance
Imagine you’re on a diet—but to measure progress, you decide to count only the number of salads you’re eating while ignoring the number of ice creams. That, in a nutshell, is what has happened in global discussions on climate finance, according to a new discussion paper from Rocky Mountain Institute…