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The Clean Energy Revolution Is (Finally) Here
Daniel Kammen examines how the confluence of technological change and changing social dynamics have finally made clean energy, social justice, and ecological preservation mainstream topics.
Energy Transitions: The Critical Path
What is the critical path we can take to affordably decarbonize energy systems—while ensuring that no one is left behind?
Robust Carbon Markets: Rethinking Quantities and Prices
Carbon markets face price erosion challenges caused by policies that encourage renewables. To overcome this, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) implemented an emissions containment reserve. Explore the RGGI approach.
Effective Climate Action: The Case for Greenhouse Gas Neutrality
Three years after the climate summit in Paris, the euphoria has largely evaporated. Although we agreed on targets holding the temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 °F), there has been little sign of additional ambition in climate change mitigation since.
The Fracking Debate: A Conversation with Daniel Raimi
Daniel Raimi, a senior research associate at Resources for the Future, discusses his new book, The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution.
Prospects for the Global Oil & Gas Industry
Felipe Arbelaez, regional president for Latin America at BP, shares insights into the technological, economic, behavioral, and environmental trends in the oil and gas industry.
The Evolution of Wholesale Electricity Markets
Andrew Ott, President and CEO of PJM Interconnection, discusses trends in the electricity industry, the latest from FERC and Washington, D.C., electric grid resilience and steps PJM is taking to continue adapting wholesale electricity markets.
Getting to Zero: Pathways to Zero Carbon Electricity Systems
Jesse Jenkins presents recent research systematically evaluating the role of various low-carbon resources under increasingly stringent CO2 limits and considering a wide range of uncertainty in technology costs, renewable resource quality, and demand patterns.