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To Help US Reach Climate Goals, Front-Runner States Are Setting Examples for Others to Follow
First-of-their-kind scorecards show progress and pathways to climate goals for six leading states…
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Sprinting Ahead: Just 5 Policies Get States About Two-Thirds of the Way to Key Climate Goals
Addressing the threat of climate change can seem overwhelming. In coming years, risks will grow — and the reality is communities across the United States are already grappling with rapidly worsening floods, wildfires, and drought.
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Green Hydrogen First Movers: Brad Davey of ArcelorMittal
In this Q&A, ArcelorMittal Executive Vice President Brad Davey discusses the steelmaking giant’s approach to decarbonization with green hydrogen.
Buildings
Low-Carbon Concrete in the Northeastern United States
Although concrete is one of the most carbon-intensive materials in our built environment, many opportunities exist to reduce its environmental impact.
Climate Aligned Industries
Hydrogen Reality Check: We Need Hydrogen — But Not for Everything
Hydrogen’s versatility as a decarbonization solution has created a lack of consensus and clarity as to where it is truly needed.
Climate-Aligned Finance
The Future of Climate Reporting: Alignment, Impact, and Risk
Financial institutions have used their climate commitments to tell the world where they want to go in the coming decades. But how will they get there?…
Electricity
Electricity Customers Are Getting Burnt by Soaring Fossil Fuel Prices
“Cost sharing” between customers and their utilities could have saved ratepayers at least $2 billion during the height of the pandemic.
Climate-Aligned Finance
Financing 1.5°C: Annual General Meetings Season Went Better Than You Think
As spring comes to a close, so does the season of annual general meetings (AGMs). At these convenings, shareholders call for corporate changes by filing and voting on resolutions. In recent years, shareholder engagement…
United States
Funding Our Future: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Can Accelerate Net-Zero Transportation — Or Hit the Brakes
Lately, the shortcomings of the US transportation system have become front page news almost daily. The invasion of Ukraine has laid bare the impacts of global oil dependence, with gasoline and diesel prices reaching record…
Global South
New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) Process: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
A key accompanying decision to the 2015 Paris Agreement stipulates setting a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. This article highlights some of the key questions that should be considered…