Energy and Climate

Action on Climate and Energy: Beyond Partisan Talking Points
As David Hart writes for The Hill, it’s time to turn talk into action: Green New Dealers need to embrace all forms of clean energy, not just renewables, and congressional Republicans must accept that government has a positive role to play in reshaping energy markets.
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For a menu of actionable ideas for policymakers related to clean-energy innovation, see ITIF’s “Tech Policy To-Do List.”

Energy and Climate
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November 30, 2015
Paris Climate Talks Need to Focus on Innovation
Greenhouse gas reduction targets will mean little without affordable technology to implement them, explains Rob Atkinson in The Globalist.
July 27, 2015
Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant II
U.S. public investment in clean energy RD&D lags behind Asian competitors, which are already seeing a payoff in both research output and commercial success.
July 13, 2015
Response to the Pope’s Encyclical on Global Warming: Markets and Technology Are the Solution, Not the Problem
The real problem with Pope Francis’ recent encyclical is that, other than love each other and live more simply, it is difficult to know what he would have us do differently, writes Joe Kennedy in Innovation Files.
June 10, 2015
Genuine U.S. Action Will Only Follow a Global Re-think
Policy should focus on making clean energy better and more affordable.
June 1, 2015
An Innovation-Based Clean Energy Agenda For America
Carbon prices, subsidies, and mandates will not give us the cost-effective, performance-competitive clean energy we need to address climate change. It will take strategic investment and reforms that spur energy innovation.
May 11, 2015
Time for a Climate Agreement on Innovation, not Targets
Carbon targets have failed and it is time for a new climate strategy based on innovation.
April 15, 2015
100 Billion Campaign
The $100 Billion Campaign advocates that increased public investments in clean energy innovation must be a key pillar of global climate policy.
March 16, 2015
Commercializing Breakthroughs at the Department of Energy
Join the Center for Clean Energy Innovation to discuss new efforts the DOE is taking to bring job-creating technologies to market.
February 12, 2015
Energy Innovation on the Hill 2015
Join us for an informal reception to showcase some of today's leading clean tech innovators.
February 4, 2015
President’s FY2016 Energy Innovation Budget
The President’s FY2016 Budget Request, released this week, emphasizes the need to increase investment in energy innovation through key offices and programs at the Department of Energy.

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