The Nuclear Energy Declaration is a major step in helping countries meet their climate goals and represents the most ambitious international commitment to nuclear energy to date.
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Cleaning Up European Energy
"The key is to remove all the market, cost, and fiscal barriers in the way of beneficial innovators. When streamlined policy makes new investments cheap and easy, newer, cleaner technologies replace older, dirtier technologies at an ever faster pace, accelerating innovation and the energy transition."
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Economic and Environmental Lessons from Korea
The way to unlock the power of society and the private sector is by giving people the freedom to innovate. Strict federal mandates, on the other hand, are a path to failure.
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Brazil to propose financing plan to protect tropical forests at COP28
"'It’s not top-down. It has to be a bottom-up exercise,' said André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, a senior Brazilian diplomat, about Brasília’s environmental efforts. 'At COP28, we’re going to have the beginning of a very important new stage. What has to be done will be debated first by the countries that have tropical forests.' said André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, a senior Brazilian diplomat, about Brasília’s environmental efforts. 'At COP28, we’re going to have the beginning of a very important new stage. What has to be done will be debated first by the countries that have tropical forests.'"
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Biden’s electric vehicle strategy is not the silver bullet to reduce emissions
"The bottom line: Electrification is not the silver bullet for reducing transportation emissions. Without greatly expanding our electric infrastructure and bolstering our domestic critical mineral supplies, an EV-only approach will do more to harm the environment than it will to help it, at the expense of consumer choice."
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COP28 Must Focus on Lowering Costs and Expanding Energy Access
Reducing financial barriers for all energy technologies and opening up free trade will help the world lower emissions and accelerate human prosperity.
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Economic and Environmental Lessons from Taiwan
The way to unlock the power of society and the private sector is by giving people the freedom to innovate.
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Policies Meant to Address Climate Change Can Worsen Human Suffering
"It’s time to move beyond 'save the planet no matter what the cost' to 'saving the planet is about protecting the people on it in both the short and long term.' If we don’t accept this reframing, policies meant to reduce human suffering by addressing climate change can actually make that suffering worse. In the end, voters own this issue. We cannot support politicians based on slogans. We must hold them accountable for the results of their policies, taking all relevant factors into account."
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USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program needs reform to improve climate benefits
"The reason why the CRP is storing less carbon in soil than if the acres were placed randomly has to do with where program acres are concentrated. The Southern Great Plains have a disproportionately high amount of CRP acres, compared to the rest of the country, and the 'coarse-textured soils' in this area store carbon poorly."
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Economic and Environmental Lessons from Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is highlighting the importance of using many different sources of energy instead of having the government pick a winner. Over time, that will allow the most efficient sources to grow in a competitive market.
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