Our Body of Work
Climate Change
Tallying Updated NDCs to Gauge Emissions Reductions in 2030 and Progress toward Net Zero
The Paris Agreement included two particularly crucial innovations for supporting greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a voluntary, bottom-up nationally determined contribution (NDC) and a ratchet mechanism.
Critical Minerals
Supply of Critical Minerals Amid the Russia-Ukraine War and Possible Sanctions
The US and EU governments are looking closely at further sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine that go beyond energy markets to directly target other sectors of the Russian natural resources and manufacturing complex.
Energy for Development
Energy Justice
EV charging stations have an equity problem
Frogs. Bees. Finicky software. There are a lot of things that can cause an electric vehicle charging station to break. We need to replace fossil-fuel powered vehicles with…
Energy Markets
Crude Volatility: No end in sight to boom-bust oil prices?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJJOQPG7pw Two years ago Robert McNally, President of Rapidan Energy Group and non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy, published Crude Volatility: The History and the…
Energy Policy
Energizing America
Clean energy innovation is central to the fight against climate change. The dramatic success in lowering the costs of solar panels and wind turbines in the past decade must be replicated across a wide range of other energy technologies.
Energy & Public Health
Exploring US Power Sector Emissions Data and the IRA’s Opportunity to Address Inequity
The EPA recently released US power sector data, the Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), which includes demographic data within three miles of each US power plant for 2021.
Energy Security
Finance & Economics
Policy Note | Scaling Clean Energy through Climate Finance Innovation
Transitioning to a low-carbon energy future consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement requires trillions of dollars of additional investment in the Global South.
