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by and - Negotiators at COP25 have an opportunity to get countries' national climate action plans onto the same schedule. A common time frame would improve transparency and coordination, and facilitate greater collective ambition.
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by Nathan Cogswell, Jemima Marie Mendoza and Yamide Dagnet - November 27, 2019One of the topics negotiators will focus on at the COP25 climate conference is capacity-building: equipping all countries with the tools they need to tackle climate change.
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by Heidi Ratz, Lori Bird and Karl Hausker - October 17, 2019Behind the U.S. power grid, electricity markets are just as important as physical power plants and transmission lines. To expand the country's clean energy, the rules of the market will need to change.
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by Xiaoliang Yang, Kevin Kennedy and Karl Hausker - October 16, 2019What consitutes safe geologic storage? This is a key question for the IRS as it considers how to account for carbon capture and sequestration.
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by Ichiro Sato and Juan-Carlos Altamirano - October 08, 2019Countries' long-term climate strategies plan out to 2050. How can policymakers deal with uncertainty over this long time horizon? "Stress-testing" with different future scenarios can help.
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by Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell and Jemima Marie Mendoza - September 03, 2019Data is a key area where business and governments can collaborate to accelerate climate action. In fact, data transparency can make countries more ambitious about climate action.
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by Erin Gray - August 26, 2019Green infrastructure can mitigate most of the world's major water problems, but investment has been held back by lack of certainty about returns. Our new methodology helps lay out how to measure the costs and benefits of green and gray infrastructure projects.
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by Laura Malaguzzi Valeri - August 01, 2019The levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, is an often-misused measure of electricity generation costs. It is the average cost of producing a unit of electricity during a generating plant’s lifetime.
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by Devashree Saha - July 08, 2019Decisions from utility commissions across the country suggest natural gas' time as a "bridge fuel" may be short—renewables are already often preferred and cheaper.
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by Lauren Sidner and Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe - July 05, 2019As developing countries increasingly experience the impacts of climate change, ensuring that they have efficient access to adaptation funding is ever more urgent.
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by Ayesha Dinshaw and Dr. Colleen McGinn - June 27, 2019Monitoring and evaluation of local adaptation grants presents significant challenges. In a new report, WRI researchers lay out some practical steps to ensuring that limited funds catalyze effective action.
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by Dan Lashof and Lori Bird - May 21, 2019Nevada's new measure to strengthen its Clean Electricity Standard is the latest in a series of legislative moves to drive the transition to low-carbon energy in the United States. That makes it a good time to review the newest research and consider whether such standards are good policy.
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by Yamide Dagnet - May 17, 2019Advances in science and technology mean that we can better measure emissions. A "refinement" to the existing guidelines lays out how countries can better report to the IPCC, giving us a better picture than ever of what we need to do to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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by Yamide Dagnet and Nathan Cogswell - March 25, 2019The Paris Agreement told us "what to do": achieve a carbon-neutral and resilient world by mid-century. The guidelines for implementing the Agreement that were adopted at the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24), in Katowice, Poland, detailed "how" we might get there.
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by Brenden Jongman and Suzanne Ozment - March 06, 2019This blog was originally posted on the World Bank's Sustainable Cities blog.
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by Ichiro Sato - February 07, 2019Under the Paris Agreement, countries' long-term climate strategies are meant to plan into the middle of the century. But we have limited ability to foresee future technology, business, lifestyle and political developments. How can policymakers deal with this uncertainty?
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by Michael I. Westphal, Dora Fazekas and Leonardo Garrido - January 30, 2019We don't know the future. We do know there would be huge benefits to shifting towards a low-carbon economy. Here are answers to seven of the most-asked questions about the economics of the NCE report.
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by Christopher Moon and Anna Bray Sharpin - January 16, 2019Introduced in a basic form in the 1960s, bike-sharing services are now seemingly ubiquitous in many major cities.
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by Joe Thwaites and Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe - December 19, 2018The COP 24 climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland delivered mixed results. Finance was an important part of the package agreed upon.
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by Michael I. Westphal - December 18, 2018Development banks can align their investments in electricity grids with the Paris Agreement by incorporating a shadow carbon price and making sure their investments support long-term plans for decarbonizing the electricity sector.