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.

Progress in Deploying Advanced Clean Energy Technology

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A year of remarkable progress in the spirit of Paris

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Solutions for Maintaining the Existing Nuclear Fleet

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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.

Blog Post
Introducing Climate Innovation 2050

Bob Perciasepe

July 12, 2018

Topics Business Leadership

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Brief
Decarbonizing U.S. Oil and Gas

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Buildings, …

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Blog Post
Wall Street Sees Opportunity in Low-Carbon Investments

Fatima Maria Ahmad

April 17, 2018

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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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Brief
Decarbonizing U.S. Power

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Buildings, …

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Brief
Decarbonizing U.S. Industry

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Buildings, …

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Brief
Decarbonizing U.S. Buildings

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Manufacturing, …

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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.

Blog Post
Lessons on Resilience Collaboration

Kristiane Huber

March 29, 2018

Tags BusinessImpactsResilienceExtreme WeatherIndustryBusiness Practices

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Factsheet
Resilience Strategies for Flash Flooding

The United States is facing increasingly frequent and intense precipitation events and ever higher damages from flooding each year due to climate change and urbanization. Communities, counties, and states are responding by upgrading stormwater and sewage systems with a growing …

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Webinar
Resilient Infrastructure for a Secure Future

January 25, 2018

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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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.

How Minneapolis is working with utilities to reduce emissions

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Dominion, Microsoft team up to build solar project

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Microgrids improve resilience, efficiency

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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.

What We Can Do

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Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

Topics Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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Resource Use

Topics Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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