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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 plans that align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement among companies in real-economy industry […]
What are Investable NDCs? (Discussion Paper)

Parties are expected to communicate new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by February 10, 2025, with an end date of 2035. Although many first and second-round NDCs were designed to attract investment, they did not deliver the results that many hoped for in that regard. As Parties prepare to submit their next round of NDCs, the […]
Corporate Low-Carbon Transition Planning: Best Practices & Recommendations to Support Credible Action

Thousands of companies have set ambitious, interim 2030 carbon reduction goals and pledged net-zero emissions by 2050. Yet, some stakeholders are skeptical, suggesting corporate net-zero goals are no more than greenwashing. The United Nations High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) report Integrity Matters: Net Zero Commitments by Businesses, Financial Institutions, Cities and Regions emphasized that net-zero commitments […]
The New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance: Elements for Consideration

This paper was submitted to the UNFCCC in July 2024.
Scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel (Factsheet)

This factsheet summarizes the policy recommendations in our Regional Roundtable brief on Scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Washington State.
Scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Recommendations to Federal Policy Makers from Washington State

The aviation industry currently accounts for 2 percent of global carbon emissions, the vast majority of which is due to the use of fossil jet fuel. As air travel grows at a projected rate of 3 to 4 percent per year, the aviation industry will continue its reliance on energy dense liquid fuels with few […]
Advanced Nuclear Process Heat for Industrial Decarbonization

Key Takeaways Nuclear power is one of the few technologies that can economically and technologically meet the thermal needs of industrial process heat applications up to 950 degrees C (1,742 degrees F). Retrofitting facilities (e.g., manufacturing, universities, hospitals) currently utilizing natural gas-fired combined heat and power systems would reduce U.S. annual carbon dioxide emissions by […]
Features and Normative Requirements for Nationally Determined Contributions (Technical Paper)
Creating a Circular Economy for Critical Materials in Ohio

Global demand for electric vehicles is expected to continue growing in the coming decades. With that, demand for critical materials like lithium, manganese, copper, silicon, and others is set to rise significantly. Recent electric vehicle battery and recycling investments in Ohio build on the state’s existing competencies throughout the automotive and scrap recycling supply chain, […]
U.S. State Carbon Pricing Policies

Compared to command-and-control regulations, carbon pricing is a market-based mechanism that creates financial incentives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Twelve states that are home to over a quarter of the U.S. population and account for a third of U.S. GDP have active carbon-pricing programs and are successfully reducing emissions. Those states are California, Washington, […]

Policy Maps, Carbon Pricing, States
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