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Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Unfinished business

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 6, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than a million people world wide have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, and in the U.S. more than 300,000 people have tested positive as the Trump administration struggles to get a handle on the outbreak. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

FixGov

When climate policy works: HFCs and the case of short-lived climate pollutants

Thursday, June 24, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Steam comes out of the chimneys of the Ilva steel plant in Taranto, Italy, November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo

Energy Security

The challenge of decarbonizing heavy industry

June 2021

Wind turbines

Climate Change

Rethinking climate finance to improve infrastructure resilience

Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, and Caroline George

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Prioritizing clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT

Building climate cooperation: The critical role for international carbon price floors

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Volunteer Elizabeth Murray helps hand water to local residents at Butler Stadium after the city of Houston implemented a boil water advisory following an unprecedented winter storm in Houston, Texas, U.S., February 21, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Planet Policy

How the SEC can protect investors, companies, and the public from another Texas power crisis

Gabriel Malek, Stephanie H. Jones, Michael Panfil, and David G. Victor

Friday, June 18, 2021

Power lines in a field near Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine during the sun set. Electricity rose by 21% in February due to energy problems. (Photo by Mykola Tys / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Energy Industry

What investors and the SEC can learn from the Texas power crises

Stephanie H. Jones, Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil, and David G. Victor

June 2021

FILE PHOTO: Wind turbines are seen at Mynydd Portref Wind Farm near Hendreforgan in South Wales, Britain, March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo

Climate Change

Climate policy models need to get real about people — here’s how

David G. Victor, Wei Peng, Gokul Iyer, Valentina Bosetti, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, James Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Stéphane Hallegatte, Detlef van Vuuren, and John Weyant

Nature Tuesday, June 8, 2021

**VIDEO AVAILABLE. CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE.**A giant hybrid sailboat has been created to reinforce the battle against plastic pollution in our oceans.Manta by SeaCleaners is the first-of-its-kind processing ship designed to collect, treat and repurpose large numbers of plastic debris floating in polluted waters, along the coasts, in estuaries, and in the mouths of large rivers.Relying primarily on renewable energy sources, the deep-sea vessel is eco-friendly and able to cross the oceans, intervening rapidly wherever it’s needed. Poised for launch in 2024, the Manta will operate autonomously 75% of the time without the use of fossil fuels, and it will have the ability to extract between 5,000 and 10,000 tons of floating plastic each year.Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep. Depending on the density and closeness of the layers of waste, the catamaran can collect between 1 to 3 tons of waste each hour. Even more impressive, its hybrid abilities means that this catamaran can operate for up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Each boat is equipped with multiple collection systems, including a set of waste-collecting conveyor belts to bring the plastic from the ocean to the boat, three floatable systems to pick up surface waste, two smaller multipurpose collection rafts for shallower and narrower parts of the ocean that the larger catamaran can’t access, and two lateral cranes to pull larger pieces of debris from the water.According to the designers, led by the company’s founder Yvan Bourgnon, the first mission of the Manta will take place in Southeast Asia. After that, the Manta will operate in Africa and South America but will also intervene in temporarily polluted areas following climatic or natural disasters.The project is three years in the making and will mark the world’s only work boat capable of managing 100% of the plastic waste it collects. An onboard factory will he

Climate Change

Marking the decarbonization revolutions

David G. Victor and Ryan Hanna

Nature Thursday, June 3, 2021

During a Greenpeace action, a CO-2 sign stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate with flames coming out of it. Two demonstrators hold a banner with the words "Before you go Mrs Merkel: Secure the future". With the action, activists of the environmental protection organization call on the German government to further reduce CO-2 emissions in Germany and to ensure compliance with the goals of the world climate summit in Paris.

Planet Policy

Germany is becoming ground zero for the challenges of deep decarbonization

Friday, May 28, 2021

Climate Change

We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, Jenny Schuetz, and Caroline George

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his American Jobs Plan near the Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Planet Policy

Barriers to achieving US climate goals are more political than technical

Monday, May 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 20: Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) questions members of the Biden administration during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden cabinet members, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, testified about the American Jobs Plan, the administration's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that has yet to win over a single Republican in Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Pool/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Planet Policy

Republicans in Congress are out of step with the American public on climate

Monday, May 10, 2021

Screenshot image shows U.S. President Joe Biden speaking during a two-day virtual climate summit that kicked off on April 22, 2021. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

Climate Change

Brookings experts comment on Biden’s climate summit

Samantha Gross, Nathan Hultman, Amar Bhattacharya, and Sanjay Patnaik

Friday, April 23, 2021