29 November 2018

Energy Research Insights for Decisionmaking

Washington, DC

Resources for the Future and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC

4:00-5:00pm Emerging Energy and Environmental Technologies: Possibilities, Policy Implications, and Potential Consequences

Moderator: Susan Tierney, Analysis Group
Panelists:
Alex Kizer, Energy Futures Initiative (blockchain)
Amy Myers Jaffe, Council on Foreign Relations (digital and distributed technologies)
Greg Nemet, University of Wisconsin (negative emissions)
Gernot Wagner, Harvard University (solar geoengineering)

Video: "Sublime: Cleaning up cement, one electron at a time"

The YEARS Project mini-documentary

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Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

25 Sep 25

Batterien statt Kraftwerke

Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.

8 Oct 25