Posts tagged Mission Innovation
Shining new light on global public investments in energy RD&D
Shining new light on global public investments in energy RD&D

As Mission Innovation (MI) prepares for its Annual Gathering later this month, the Climate Policy Lab has launched a new, expansive global dataset on RD&D expenditures. The data appear as an interactive visualization of annual public investments in energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) across 39 countries since 2000. This visualization is the culmination of a major effort to provide a global picture of energy RD&D investments based on the review of local documents. We aim to improve the accessibility of these important RD&D data so that everyone can better understand how much countries spend in this critical area of technological innovation.

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Climate Policy LabMission Innovation, Author - Zdenka Myslikova, project - Clean Technology
U.S. Election Results: Now What for Climate?
U.S. Election Results: Now What for Climate?

The website “Restoring American Leadership” which chronicles the transition plans of U.S. President Elect Joe Biden includes a vision specifically on climate change. It calls on the United States to go further than just rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement to build “a more resilient, sustainable economy – one that will put the United States on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emission, economy-wide, by no later than 2050.” The plan references multiple ways to accomplish net zero goals including promoting climate smart agriculture, building greener and more resilient public transportation infrastructure, and decarbonizing the power sector as well as creating additional union jobs via a major program upgrading existing buildings.

The transition planning, as described, misses the opportunity to put U.S. actions into a global perspective. We offer some suggestions for the new administration, based on the Climate Policy Lab’s research, on how to marry national domestic climate policy with international challenges and opportunities.

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Climate SmartClimate Policy LabAmy Myers Jaffe, Kelly Sims Gallagher, 2020, US, green stimulus, energy transition, climate policy, climate policy performance, decarbonization, green infrastructure, green industrialization, Paris Agreement, low carbon growth, China BRI, carbon pricing, climate finance, national climate funds, national development banks, green banks, Mission Innovation, clean tech, green jobs, innovation, energy innovation