Strategic Insights
Good COP, Bad COP? The Hopeful News in COP26…and Beyond
There is good news and bad news emerging from COP26. The bad news: The emissions reduction pledges made by nations so far are still likely to consign civilization to a 2.7°C warmer world by 2100 compared with pre-industrial times. The good news: Steady progress is being made in securing…
We Have the Technology, but Where’s the Ambition?
The decreasing costs and improved performance of renewable energy technologies means that it is possible to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Companies Are Catalyzing the Net-Zero Economy
Recent reports and real-world developments foretell both the dramatic energy system transformations required to decarbonize the global economy and the looming, increasingly disastrous consequences of moving too slowly.
Market Catalysts: How We Keep Warming to 1.5°C
From drought to heatwaves, to catastrophic fires and more intense hurricanes, our world is already experiencing climate change. But we as a civilization still have a say in how bad it gets. To prevent the worst effects of runaway warming, the global climate movement has aligned on a goal to…
The Map Is Not the Territory: New Routes to a 1.5°C Future
Explorers use maps intensively, but they take the information recorded in the charts they use with a few grains of salt, knowing that the map is not the territory. After all, sometimes maps present a consensus view of reality that is disastrously wrong. For more than 100 years, beginning…