Understanding California wildfires: Climate trends and response options
California is in the middle of another unprecedented fire year. More acres have burned to date than any year previously on record. For those directly…
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Coal exit: Different approaches to determining costs, benefits, and justice implications
One bright spot amid the past quarter was Britain’s record-breaking 67 days of coal-free electricity. Remarkably, the birthplace of coal-based industrialization met power demands for more…
COVID-19 recovery, climate impacts, and co-benefits: Stimulus policies that can multi-solve
Figure 1. Hanna et al. 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a global cessation of travel, manufacturing, and countless economic activities. Because our economies are still…
How much energy do data centers really use?
By Eric Masanet and Nuoa Lei, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University
Data centers can be thought of as the “brains” of the…
What rooftop solar tells us about who’s participating (and who’s not) in the clean energy transition
Moving society to near zero carbon emissions will entail a substantial amount of distributed clean energy generation. Distributed generation can occur at household or neighborhood…
Negative emission technologies and land use
Given the aspirations of the Paris Accord, the challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual CO2 emissions by 2030, halve them again…
Energy justice: a complex but vital piece to a clean energy transition
The global energy system of the future will look drastically different than it does today. Energy sources, markets, grids, governance structures: every dimension of the…
Electrifying the building sector: Recent research perspectives on available technologies, policies, and mitigation strategies
Eliminating building sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is widely acknowledged as critical to limiting global warming. Residential and commercial buildings consumed 40 percent of energy…
Direct air capture and storage: Should we be driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake?
Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in…
Sharing our hopes, fears, and solutions to solve climate change while creating a better society: The deep decarbonization pathways design framework
It is now broadly understood that the global average temperature must not rise more than 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels if we are to limit…