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From Deep Crisis, Profound Change
The Ukraine crisis shows that we must now act with speed, agility, coordination, and an integrated vision to create a prosperous climate-safe and energy-secure world.
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Businesses Taking Real Action Is Essential to a Zero-Carbon Future
Two years into this decisive decade for climate action, when we must halve global carbon emissions, we have reasons to feel hopeful about the state of climate-related innovation and action.
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Five Things that Rang True for Climate and Energy Experts in Don’t Look Up
Don’t Look Up—the most popular movie on Netflix right now—satirizes the inability of humankind to grapple with the climate crisis.
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RMI Is All over NYC Climate Week
When it comes to eliminating greenhouse gas pollution and moving to a sustainable energy future, RMI addresses the many problems of the energy transition from the most critical angles. So it should be no surprise…
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Shoonya Will Electrify Urban Deliveries in India—Is the World Next?
The 21st century has made buying things easier than ever. With a web search and the click of a mouse, you can buy almost anything: from a large-screen TV to lunch. And instead of traveling…
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Remembering Alastaire Dick
Our friend and colleague Alastaire Dick passed away on July 19 from complications related to COVID. Al was a great friend to many of us at RMI, and a man who will be remembered for…
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We Have Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Now We Must Act.
The emotional weight of the findings in the IPCC’s latest report is real and the conclusion is therefore unmistakable: we must double down and act without delay. We have known for many decades that…
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Financing 1.5°C: The Big Banks have Set Climate Targets—Now What?
A lot has happened in the financial sector since RMI launched the Center for Climate-Aligned Finance (the Center) a year ago. Particularly in North America, banks increased their climate ambitions: As of June 2020, not…
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From G7 to COP26: A Path Forward for the Global South
The Global South is pissed off. And rightly so. Developing countries have borne the brunt of climate change and now COVID-19 related health impacts and economic contractions. While the Global North is ready to move…
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The Untapped Potential of Public Utility Commissions
The United States is at a defining moment in its response to the climate crisis. At the national level, President Biden has recommitted to the Paris Agreement, announcing that the United States will play…