The Next Wave of Climate Solutions: Accelerating Innovation Now to Scale Up in the ’30s & ’40s

Getting to net-zero by 2050 will require multiple waves of solutions to be deployed at global scale. As the current wave crests in the 2020s, governments and businesses need to be building the next one, and the one after that, to address emissions challenges that are hard or impossible to abate today.

ITIF, Breakthrough Energy, and Third Way co-organized a panel discussion at COP26 in Glasgow for the State Department’s U.S. Center on the priorities and modalities for a decade of ambitious action to accelerate innovation, which must unfold in the 2020s to unlock decades of opportunity to follow.

• This live-streamed panel took place as part of a series of in-person and virtual events running throughout the two weeks of the COP26 conference.
• The program is being live-streamed on the U.S. Center’s YouTube channel and website.