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COP26 Keeps 1.5 Degrees in Reach
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP) has historically been a venue for international diplomacy and country-to-country negotiations. Countries were expected to arrive in Glasgow for COP26 with new nationally determined contributions (NDCs, otherwise known as pledges) that would meet the targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement. As in previous years,…
Clean Energy Has Won the Economic Race
This article was first published on Project Syndicate For decades, we at RMI have argued that the transition to clean energy will cost less and proceed faster than governments, firms, and many analysts expect. In recent years, this outlook has been fully vindicated: costs of renewables have consistently fallen…
RMI Is All over NYC Climate Week
When it comes to eliminating greenhouse gas pollution and moving to a sustainable energy future, RMI addresses the many problems of the energy transition from the most critical angles. So it should be no surprise that our presence at Climate Week NYC (September 20–26) ranges across sectors, geographies, and…
Remembering Alastaire Dick
Our friend and colleague Alastaire Dick passed away on July 19 from complications related to COVID. Al was a great friend to many of us at RMI, and a man who will be remembered for his humility, clear moral sense, generosity of spirit, sense of humor, and commitment to his…
We Have Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Now We Must Act.
The emotional weight of the findings in the IPCC’s latest report is real and the conclusion is therefore unmistakable: we must double down and act without delay. We have known for many decades that at some point this day would come when the climate crisis was not a distant…
