David G. Victor

Neither Congress nor the administration is putting much attention on what we know would have a big impact on long-term transformation of the energy system—massive innovation and deployment of new technology. Meanwhile, the country and markets stumble on.

Increasing the transparency of pledges would make it easier for countries to pressure each other do more, which is how the Paris Agreement was designed. Countries could come back and say, ‘Here’s what has worked, what didn’t, what our progress is and what other countries can learn.' We know from other areas of international cooperation that that dynamic actually works pretty well.