Decarbonization is possible
As solutions scale, typically their quality improves and their costs drop. Eventually, an emerging technology improves enough to outcompete an incumbent, initiating a transition from old to new. Climate techs that facilitate greenhouse gas emissions reductions, from wind turbines to nature-based solutions, need to scale by outcompeting existing solutions. The sticking point is that most remain commercially uncompetitive, stifling their rollout.
Are key climate technologies breaking through?
Concrete grounds for optimism exist. Recent successes show that climate techs can scale at speed once they become competitive: Renewables have passed this point and electric vehicles are following suit. Similar trends in other areas could bring forward tipping points for currently uncompetitive climate techs. Anticipating where these tipping points lie can inform strategic policy, investment, and organizational decisions. The Institute’s Green hockey sticks Report analyzed 15 key climate techs, establishing decadal deployment goals, progress to date, and where their tipping points may lie. If all 15 were fully deployed, they could reduce, avoid, or remove around 200 gigatons of GHG emissions—enough to meet around 70% of the 1.5oC carbon budget.
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Can we be more optimistic on climate?
Climate goals require the mass-scale deployment of climate technology—yet most remain commercially uncompetitive, slowing their rollout. Recent success in the power and transport sectors imply the tide could be turning. Read the article
A fuels errand
Sustainable aviation fuel is key to decarbonizing air transport, but current production is tiny and expensive. Meeting climate goals requires a multi-stakeholder approach to establish global SAF value chains and enable its scaling. Read the article
Is circularity always good business?
Going circular can involve high near-term investment but also long-term value creation. The business case is often positive. Read the article
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Peter Bakker: Sustainability presents the biggest innovation opportunity
Sustainability doom-and-gloom stories are not the right tool to advance discussions and solutions on climate change. Instead we need to think of the climate transition as the greatest opportunity we currently have says Peter Bakker, member of the Institute Forum. Watch the video
Numbers that matter
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The SDGs: an assessment of progress and challenges – The journey towards the Sustainable Development Goals stands at the halfway mark. While progress has been made many challenges remain and the goal gets ever further out of reach.
It takes a village: Defining sustainable infrastructure – Infrastructure investments offer very concrete opportunities to support the UN SDGs. With 2030 fast approaching, it is time that private and public players engage more closely to drive change forward.
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Running dry – Climate change is intensifying an often under-appreciated but potentially existential threat—water scarcity. This report outlines technologies that can reduce urban water stress and provides a framework to determine the locally most impactful solutions. ?
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Katharine Hayhoe: I want climate conversations to focus on win-win-win solutions? – The climate change conversation has broadened beyond science and politics. Now we need to ensure that everyone engages, not only in the conversation but with action for the good of all people and the one planet we have.
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1 个月According to the?IPCC?, the food system is?responsible for approximately 23% of greenhouse gas emissions.?When indirect emissions, such as food waste and land-use changes, are factored in, the?total contribution rises to between 21% and 37% This significant impact underscores the urgent need for sustainable food practices to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, too little money is invested in cutting agrifood emissions, and agrifood lags behind other sectors in financing climate action.?The agrifood system is responsible for nearly one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and almost 60% of global biodiversity loss. Only 4.3% of international climate finance?is directed towards agrifood systems.? Despite being high in emissions and vulnerable to climate change, agrifood systems receive strikingly low climate finance. The funding to mitigate the global food system's environmental impact is insufficient.?? For example, project-level climate finance for fisheries and aquaculture was USD 0.1 billion per year?and USD 0.1 billion in VC. At the same time, an estimated USD 11 billion is needed each year CPI-2023—Given the pressing circumstances, the world cannot achieve net zero emissions in the agrifood system.
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1 个月If if’s were skiffs, we’d all have boats. We have never fully displaced incumbent forms of energy and as energy demand grows, complex energy systems exist, demand across various time domains remain (and increases if EVs continue to take market share), and clean technologies face intermittency and commerciality / full-cycle returns hurdles, net zero is not in the pipeline but it is a pipe dream. This is idyllic nonsense not grounded in reason.
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