Today, @ColumbiaUEnergy releases Energizing America w/@ITIFdc, a roadmap to kickstart a U.S. federal clean energy innovation policy agenda, increase federal funding for energy RD&D, decarbonize the global economy and address #climatechange: bit.ly/energizingamer….
In Energizing America, authors @vsiv@colin_cunliff@ProfDavidHart@CarbonWrangler & David Sandalow offer a detailed roadmap to dramatically increase U.S. federal funding for energy RD&D across ten Technology Pillars, elevating energy innovation as a core national priority
Raising annual federal investment to $25 billion by 2025 can jumpstart private innovation and sustain one million jobs over the long run, investments that can speed clean energy transitions around the world and build advanced energy industries in the U.S.: bit.ly/energizingamer…
Clean energy innovation has gained bipartisan support in Congress, but as @ColumbiaUEnergy@JasonBordoff points out: “The question for policymakers remains: how best to accomplish it? Energizing America offers the next administration and Congress a strategic framework.”
.@JohnKerry, 68th U.S. Secretary of State, endorsed Energizing America as, "A plan to make the U.S. the world leader in clean energy innovation and rise to an existential challenge—creating exciting new jobs along the way."
Explore our interactive report to learn why energy innovation is a critical national priority, and key to addressing #ClimateChange. Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission: bit.ly/energizingamer….
In an important new commentary, CGEP’s @mbowen92 and @PDabbar discuss Russia’s role in the Western nuclear power supply chain as well as policy options to reduce—or end—that involvement.👇🧵 1/8 energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/comme…
Russia is a major supplier of several services involved with the manufacturing of nuclear fuel.
While it isn't one of the leading miners of raw uranium, Russia accounted for nearly 40% of global conversion services in 2020 & ~46% share of global enrichment capacity in 2018. 2/8
The global nuclear market also relies on Russia for nuclear reactor equipment and construction.
Many reactors in operation and under construction around the world are using Russian reactor technology. 3/8
In January, @Microsoft announced that it paid to remove 1.3 million tons of CO2— the largest corporate procurement of carbon removal to date.
A new article in @Nature looks at what lessons we can learn as other companies look to offset CO2 emissions: go.nature.com/3CQZoDN 🧵👇
How much is 1.3 million tons of CO2? According to the @EPA, it equals the greenhouse gas emissions from 256,483 cars driven in a single year (or the CO2 removal of 33 million trees).
It’s also about 11% of the annual emissions from Microsoft’s value chain.
By 2030, Microsoft aims to reduce emissions by 50%. It plans to do this by electrifying its vehicle fleet and reducing emissions across its value chain.
For harder to abate emissions— including historical— Microsoft and others are adding carbon removal to emissions reduction.
Last September, Xi Jinping announced that China aims to peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
A new CGEP report looks at what this means for China’s national oil companies (NOCs): bit.ly/3zYmBCg
The main findings are three-fold:
First, ensuring oil and natural gas supplies for China—which imports more than 70% of its oil and more than 40% of its natural gas—remains job number one for the NOCs.
However, the companies must also prove that they are developing credible plans to help China meet its carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.