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Innovation Conservatism
Bucking the conventional wisdom that newly empowered conservatives are out to cut government spending at all costs, an influential group of conservative voices has emerged to urge Congressional Republicans to take a more measured approach toward...
Richter: Energy in Three Dimensions
"Energy Innovation 2010" keynote presentation delivered by Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Burton Richter on December 15, 2010. (Richter's Keynote begins at 5:56 in the video below) I have been asked by the organizers to be provocative at this...
The Efficiency Illusion
By Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, and Jesse Jenkins If there's one thing everyone knows for certain, it's that energy efficiency reduces energy consumption. President Obama, Steven Chu, Fortune 500 chieftains, Silicon Valley VCs, the U.N. and...
Belfer Center: Governments of Emerging Economies Out-Investing US in Energy Research
The governments of six developing countries may now be investing more in energy research than the governments of twenty-one of the world's most developed economies, according to a new report by the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International...
The New Energy Conversation
By Rob Atkinson, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger For forty years, presidents and policymakers have promised and planned for a new energy future just over the horizon. While the rationales have varied - reducing dependence on imported oil,...
Why Japan Disowned Kyoto
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus Japan's blunt declaration last week that it was walking away from the Kyoto climate treaty marked the end of an era. Since Copenhagen, international climate negotiations have proceeded on two parallel tracks...
U.S. Must Triple Investment in Energy Technology: President's Science Advisors
The United States should more than triple federal investments in the development of cutting edge new energy technologies to accelerate the transition to a low carbon energy system, according to President Obama's top science and technology advisors....
Chu: Increasing Energy R&D is an Economic Competitiveness Imperative
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned today that if the United States allows funding for energy R&D to decline it risks losing its leadership in energy innovation to China and other emerging economic competitors. Speaking at the release of a...
WSJ: Forget the U.N. Climate Convention -- Rethink Innovation Instead
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus The failure of the U.N. climate process is proof that shared economic sacrifice cannot be the basis of global action. Nations will not scale up clean energy as long as it remains so much more expensive than...
Eye on the Prize: China is Make or Break for Climate
Were the European Union to call for a deeper cut in carbon dioxide emissions, it would do little to stem the unrelenting increase in global emissions and is unlikely to have any effect on the international climate negotiations, according to the...
Reid Promises Incoming Senator: Cap and Trade is Dead Next Session
This should come as no surprise... According to E&E news ($ubscription required): There will be no cap-and-trade climate bill considered in the next Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised a colleague today. Newly sworn-in Sen....
The Future of Philanthropy in a Post-Cap and Trade World
In an effort to develop a truly effective post-cap and trade climate strategy, policy is not the only aspect that requires deep reflection - philanthropists, too, must reconsider the best way to channel grants in order to successfully fund solutions...
