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Featured Research Policy Briefs
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Neighborhood competitions reduce informal waste burning in Uganda
Social competitions can be leveraged as a low-cost strategy to change community behavior without the need for material incentives or increased enforcement.
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Social psychology can help address barriers to climate action
Social psychology can offer unique insights into understanding the relationship between the public, politicians, media and activists around climate policy.
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To protect communities from wildfires, we need to focus on equity
Wildfire management strategies should expand mitigation, improve community engagement, and use novel approaches to enhance equitable preparedness, evacuation, and recovery.
Policy Reports
Collaborative Levers for Methane Abatement in National Oil Companies
National oil companies dominate industry methane emissions; enlisting them to clean up requires understanding the governments that manage them.
Strategies for Building Power to Shift Climate Politics and Policy
Understanding the forces blocking ambitious climate action requires an evidence-grounded analysis of how political power is generated, distributed and wielded in the energy system.
Policy & Communication for Wildfire Resilience
Climate change is increasing wildfire risk in California, with escalating impacts on the natural environment as well as agricultural, commercial, and municipal land uses.
Assessing National Oil Companies’ transition plans: An essential tool for banks, investors and regulators
Transition plans for national oil companies are a critical component of decarbonizing the oil and gas sector.
Emerging Technologies Review 2023: Beyond Efficiency to Electrification in California
The 2035 Initiative’s Emerging Technology Review brought together advocates, academics, government officials, and private sector leaders to discuss our electrified future and how to achieve it.
Opportunity NOCs: How Investors Can Jumpstart Energy Transitions in National Oil Companies
The extent of investor exposure and the degree of investors’ potential influence over the fates of NOCs are far greater than investors themselves may perceive.
Clean and Healthy Schools are Electric
All-electric HVAC system upgrades with advanced filtration can deliver enormous educational and health benefits to California’s students and school staff while cutting operating costs.
Powering Toward 100 Percent Clean Power by 2035
The Biden administration has the power to achieve 100% clean electricity by 2035 while reducing climate pollution, improving public health, increasing equity, and creating good clean energy jobs. But they must go further, faster to use their authority while they still can.
Paving a Credible Investment Pathway to Net Zero for Oil and Gas
Investment treaties have the potential to play a significant role in motivating and bolstering confidence in climate targets by fossil fuel firms.
Meeting the Moment on Climate Through the American Household
It is time to treat the American household as the keystone of our climate infrastructure.
A Roadmap to 100% Clean Electricity by 2035: August 2021 Update
A Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) is the most powerful tool in our toolbox to reduce carbon pollution, create millions of new jobs, and reduce utility bills for ratepayers across the country.
National Oil Companies and Climate Change: Insights for Advocates
National oil companies are the “hidden half” of the global oil industry. Climate and development advocates who seek to reduce fossil fuel supply and promote sustainable economies must engage with these state-owned companies, many of which are based in countries with high levels of poverty.
The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges
Many utilities have stated climate goals. However, those goals are meaningless greenwashing without utilities taking the necessary actions to decarbonize.
State and Local Decarbonization Policies for the South
While some warming and sea level rise are already locked in, the South has untapped potential for economic growth and climate leadership.
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
From a political economy perspective, carbon pricing is not likely to be the most effective tool to achieve long-term deep decarbonization, at least not on its own.
