Achieving Equity With Community Choice Aggregation: Four Recommendations
IGS Blog | Community Choice Aggregation programs can help achieve energy justice, as long as they are structured to champion energy democracy and community benefits.
Green Steel: Make Electric Vehicles Greener
IGS Blog | President Biden just announced last week that the administration looks to make half of new vehicle sales electric vehicles by 2030.
Is the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill a Suitable U.S. Climate Policy?
According to a new BU Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) publication by a team of authors led by Peter Fox-Penner, ISE Director, the answer is no. The authors assert that a complete national policy will have three critical ingredients: 1.) it will set clear national net-zero targets for all major regions and emitting sectors; 2.) […]
Target − Plan − Finance: A Framework for Climate Policy in Federal Infrastructure Legislation
IGS Research | July 2021
Response of the Environmental Protection Agency to Public Submissions: Notice and Comment Process in Methane Emission Deregulation
IGS Research | July 2021
New Report Calls for an Integrated National Strategy to Bolster U.S. Clean Manufacturing and Avert Climate Change
WASHINGTON D.C., June 21, 2021—Manufacturing may soon become the sector with the largest greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, yet national plans to achieve net-zero emissions have so far not focused on retooling manufacturing industries. A new report released today by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the Boston University Institute for Sustainable […]
Clean and Competitive: Opportunities for U.S. Manufacturing Leadership in the Global Low-Carbon Economy
IGS Research | June 2021
China’s Clean Energy Transition Plan Should Have Been More Ambitious and More Aspirational to the World
IGS Blog | In the most recently released “China’s 14th Five-Year Plan” (the Plan), covering the years 2021-2025, one welcome highlight is its focus on decarbonization and energy efficiency.
EPA Methane Emission Controls, Obama vs Trump vs Biden: What Needs to Be Fixed and What Should Be Left Alone
IGS Research | May 2021
Accelerating Cities’ Net Zero Action
IGS Research | May 2021