Green banks are an essential tool for the green energy transition. Though well-established in countries such as Germany, India, Australia, and the UK, green banks have gone mostly missing in action in the United States until recently. This white paper explains a vital new source of financing that has rapidly grown in the US over the last decade.

Community opposition to wind power can drive up costs for developers and
stymie policymakers’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. In developing countries,
how often do communities oppose wind power, why does the opposition happen, and
to what extent will it become a barrier to clean energy expansion? This White Paper
offers lessons learned for developers and policymakers seeking to promote climate
policy goals while remaining sensitive to local community concerns.

The Government of Canada has issued a proposed Regulatory Framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the oil and gas sector, and invited public comment on the Framework by February 2024. This Climate Solutions Lab (CSL) report, based on input from experts at Brown University and the University of Toronto, provides suggestions to improve the effectiveness, credibility, and administrative simplicity of the Regulatory Framework, without any sacrifice to political feasibility.

This short White Paper highlights three core points. First, the threat of a partial or full Russian cut-off of natural gas is real. Second, the European Union has a variety of countermeasures and options available to it. Third, even with those countermeasures, Europe faces a very real danger of a long, cold winter in 2023. The need for energy security and climate sustainability both point to the importance of transitioning off of fossil fuels as soon as possible.

Shipping is the most fuel-efficient means of global transportation, but the sector also contributes 1,056 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually... Yet the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for shipping, has so far failed to address the problem. This research brief argues that the IMO is dominated by countries and industry associations with a strong interest in shipping — actors that generally oppose climate change regulations.

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is the U.S. government's official report on the science of climate change. Published in 2018, the Fourth NCA synthesizes a vast quantity of complex data gathered from 13 federal agencies and departments. Its authors should be proud of the massive scientific coordination it represents. But as the Fifth NCA is prepared for publication in 2023, we argue there is room to improve.

The United States is historically one of the world’s largest investors in renewable energy research and development (R&D). Yet, it has struggled to build a large manufacturing industry for the technologies needed in a clean energy transition. U.S. universities and startups have excelled at inventing new technologies, but much of the global production capacity in these sectors is located elsewhere.