Global Clean Energy Innovation
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Innovation is central to addressing global climate change while increasing economic growth, boosting international competitiveness, and eliminating energy poverty. ITIF’s Center for Clean Energy Innovation seeks to accelerate the transition of the domestic and global energy systems to low-carbon resources. On issues related to global clean energy innovation, our research focuses on how national policies foster the transition to innovative clean energy resources.
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Mission Critical: The Global Energy Innovation System Is Not Thriving
Accelerating clean energy innovation is critical to avert the worst effects of climate change, but the global energy innovation system is in poor health, with weaknesses across most indicators. Nations must rectify these weaknesses to deliver on the promises world leaders made at COP26.
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March 16, 2023|Events
Petrochemicals Without the Petro: A New Initiative?
Watch to learn more about these exciting innovations and to discuss a federal initiative (such as a DOE EarthShot) to accelerate them.
December 15, 2022|Blogs
An Energy Innovation Agenda for the 118th Congress
As we face a divided 118th Congress, policymakers can still find common ground to spur continued growth for American energy innovation.
October 27, 2022|Events
Mission Critical: Accelerating Innovation at COP 27
Watch thought leaders from ITIF, IIT-Delhi School of Public Policy, and the Climate Policy Lab at The Fletcher School, Tufts University share their visions for a successful COP for innovation, building off the September 12th forum published in Nature Energy.
September 12, 2022|Op-Eds & Commentary
Climate Innovation Policy From Glasgow to Pittsburgh
In September, ministers will gather in Pittsburgh to consider how their governments should respond to the energy and climate innovation imperative. Building on Glasgow, the meeting should strive to fill critical gaps in areas such as capital-intensive demonstration projects and innovation-friendly trade in carbon-intensive goods.
March 3, 2022|Op-Eds & Commentary
Don’t Blame DeJoy, Give Him the Money to Buy Electric Postal Trucks
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) just approved plans to deploy a new delivery fleet consisting almost entirely of gasoline-powered trucks, even as Amazon, UPS and FedEx are going all-in on climate-friendly electric vehicles (EVs).
January 14, 2022|Op-Eds & Commentary, Blogs
One Year Later, A Glass Half Full: Energy Innovation Under the Biden Administration
A year into the administration, the supply-push elements of the agenda have fared better than the demand-pull components. While a half-full glass is better than an empty one, only a full one will put the United States and the world on a path that will stop climate change.
January 13, 2022|Events
Rejuvenating Global Energy Innovation to Deliver on Glasgow
ITIF's Center for Clean Energy Innovation hosted a discussion of the health of the global clean energy innovation system, why continuous investments in the system matter, and what a healthy system should look like.
January 13, 2022|Op-Eds & Commentary, Blogs
Stark Choice: Rejuvenate Global Energy Innovation or Fail to Meet Climate Goals
At last year’s Glasgow Climate Conference, countries pledged to increase public and private finance, set common targets under the Breakthrough Agenda, and accelerate electric vehicle deployment, among many other goals.
December 7, 2021|Events
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Why Spurring Further Innovation in Renewables Matters
ITIF’s Center for Clean Energy Innovation hosted a panel discussion on why continued innovation matters, what an innovation agenda for advanced renewables should look like, and which technologies are likely to be the next big things.
November 15, 2021|Op-Eds & Commentary
Gene Editing Promises to Make Human Industry Sustainable
The major limitation on what gene editing might accomplish would seem to be the power of human imagination.
