Climate Solutions

Cutting carbon emissions takes smart policies, innovative technologies, business leadership, and simple steps to shrink our own carbon footprint. Other solutions focus on strengthening our climate resilience.

Carbon Capture

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Climate-Proofing the Grid: Strategies for Grid Modernization and Climate Resilience

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Tackling Flood Mitigation with Federal Resources: Best Practices for Community Resilience

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Business Leadership

Major companies across the economy are demonstrating climate leadership by reducing their emissions, developing innovative low-carbon technologies, and supporting more ambitious government policies.

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BELC Events for Climate Week 2024

September 23, 2024 – September 27, 2024

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C2ES at NYC Climate Week 2024

September 23, 2024 – September 27, 2024

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Fact Sheet: Corporate Low-Carbon Transition Planning: Best Practices & Recommendations to Support Credible Action

This fact sheet summarizes the Corporate Low-Carbon Transition Planning: Best Practices & Recommendations to Support Credible Action report. With this project and report, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) aims to support and accelerate the development of low-carbon transition …

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Technology Solutions

Achieving a true low-carbon transition requires an array of innovative technologies, including renewable energy, alternative vehicles, advanced nuclear power, and carbon capture, use and storage.

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Engineered Carbon Removal: Markets & Finance Policy Recommendations

There is broad consensus that both aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reductions and gigatons of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed to limit the rise in average global temperatures to below 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels. In addition to …

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Policy recommendations from the inaugural year of C2ES’s Engineered Carbon Removal Working Group

Diandra Angiello, Emily Pope

September 4, 2024

Topics Technology Solutions

Tags Engineered carbon removalTechnology Working Groups

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Engineered Carbon Removal: Markets & Finance Policies (Factsheet)

This factsheet accompanies the full brief that explores C2ES’s engineered carbon removal federal policy recommendations.

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Resilience Solutions

Even as we work to avoid worse impacts in the future, the public and private sectors must act now to strengthen our resilience to the unavoidable impacts of warming that’s already underway.

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Unlocking Community Resilience: Innovative Strategies to Access Climate Adaptation Funding

Community efforts to adapt to the physical impacts of climate change are lagging despite unprecedented financing available for resilience in the United States. Local and state governments and organizations are pioneering approaches to address key challenges and improve community access …

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Working Principles for Corporate Climate Resilience Leadership

As part of a new initiative to catalyze corporate climate resilience leadership, C2ES, Resilience Rising, and Resilience First, have engaged cross-sector stakeholders—including businesses, NGOs, and resilience-focused organizations—to develop guiding principles that reflect how companies can demonstrate leadership in advancing resilience …

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Climate Resilience Pathways: Catalyzing Private Sector Action

Businesses’ ability to adapt to climate change is a strategic imperative. Yet, despite the growing need to manage and respond to climate risks, a staggering 80% of companies lack a comprehensive plan for climate adaptation. This gap is a call …

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Solutions Stories

These on-the-ground stories highlight the many innovative ways cities, states and businesses are working together to expand clean energy, reduce emissions, and strengthen climate resilience.

Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Apple work with Canada to erase aluminum smelting emissions

Tags Clean EnergyIndustryBusiness PracticesBusiness

Students ‘Envision Charlotte’ as an energy efficiency leader

Tags BusinessCitiesClean EnergyEfficiencyEmissionsBusiness Practices

How Minneapolis is working with utilities to reduce emissions

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

We all can take steps at home, at work and getting around to ease global warming by reducing our personal carbon footprint. On these pages, you can learn how.

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C2ES Sustainable choices on Earth Day 2022

April 22, 2022

Topics Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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10 things you can do this Leap Day to maximize your climate impact

Stephanie Gagnon Rodriguez

February 27, 2020

What We Can Do

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