The world’s largest concentrated solar plant (CSP) opened earlier this year in California, and the United States is not alone in its quest to become a major supplier of solar power, and to shift the demand for power necessary to…
Category: Financial Incentives
Shifting the Cost of Desalination to Renewables: How the Private Sector is Getting Involved in the US and India
Madeline Clark
Posted in Demand Management, Efficiency, Energy Production, Energy Security, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, India, Renewable Energy, Renewable Fuels, Uncategorized
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Brazil Moving Forward: Barriers and Recommendations to Land-Use Emissions Mitigation
Stephen Farshing
Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD
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This will be the final post (concerning Brazil) to promote our recent report on Land-Use and Agricultural Emissions in Brazil and Indonesia. I encourage all to read through the report to gain a more detailed understanding of the current emissions situations in…
Are Brazil’s Deforestation Policies Enough?
Stephen Farshing
Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD
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As deforestation alone is responsible for well over half of Brazil’s GHG emissions, it is a contentious sector at all levels of government, for businesses, NGOs, and civil society groups. To meet its stated emissions reductions goals by…
Barriers to Low-Carbon Transport in India
Madeline Clark
Posted in Efficiency, Financial Incentives, India, Planning, Transport, Transport Infrastructure, Vehicle Emission Standards
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There are significant political, cultural, and financial barriers to implement long-lasting transportation reforms in India. To begin, scaling projects from the national to the local level, or even from one locality to another has been a long-standing issue in India. Though…
How Industries Fit In: Energy Efficiency Report Part II
Travis Clayton
Posted in China, Efficiency, Financial Incentives, India, United States
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Please click here to access part I of the Industrial sector’s overview. In order to address these recent developments in the industrial sector, we propose the following recommendations which target industrial emissions abatement potential and specific barriers towards abatement: Governments…
How Industries Fit In: Energy Efficiency Report Part I
Travis Clayton
Posted in China, Efficiency, Financial Incentives, India, United States
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As preparation for our Major Economies and Climate Change Research presentation, I will be providing a brief overview of industry’s share of emissions within the energy efficiency sector. Specifically, these two posts will discuss the chemical, iron and steel, and…
Why the Dream of Clean, Cheap, and Distributed Electricity is so Difficult to Achieve
Carson Stones
Posted in Energy Production, Financial Incentives, Renewable Energy, United States, Utilities
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The citizens of Austin, Texas have touted the capital as a “green city” and the city council adopted a Climate Protection Program in 2012 toward that end. One of the plan’s 5 major goals was to reduce energy use by…