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Making Deep Decarbonization a Reality
As the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Madrid limped to a close, it has become clear that climate summits are stuck in a rut. The job of cutting global emissions is actually getting harder, and not just because the planet keeps warming. Like many of the people in the…
Bulletin from Madrid: Green Banks, Growing Ambition
Exhausted from spending a full week buzzing around COP25 and spending six hours waiting on the tarmac, I learned my flight back to the US from Madrid was canceled. Long after I was supposed to be home, I instead found myself having dinner with two other stranded passengers, also COP…
Hope in the Global Push to Address the Climate Crisis
On December 11 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., RMI Managing Directors Richenda Van Leeuwen, Jon Creyts, and Jennifer Stokes discussed solutions to reduce carbon emissions by 40–50 percent over the next decade, the necessary level to keep warming below 1.5°C. As explained by Creyts, this is made…
RMI Introduces the Climate Finance Access Network at COP25
The halls of the United Nations climate conference (COP25) in Madrid this week have been buzzing with discussions about the complex challenges posed by climate change—and the equally complex solutions. Finance plays a central role in the debate, particularly for developing countries trying to navigate the maze of finance…
The Path to Meeting Paris Targets for the United States
An overflow crowd assembled today at the Climate Action Center at the IFEMA event hall in Madrid, where the COP25 climate conference is being held. From across the enormous conference center, people came to hear the news that even as the US federal government plans to withdraw from the Paris…
