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Climate Tech Cities - Subscribe to receive a regular newsletter with climate events in your city

 Subscribe to receive a regular newsletter with climate events in your city: https://www.climatetechcities.com/washington-dc https://www.climatetechcities.com/

Bloomberg - Who manages the retreat?

Bloomberg - Who manages the retreat? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-12/climate-migration-s-billion-dollar-question-who-manages-the-retreat

Decarbonizing the sprawling university system

 Decarbonizing the sprawling university system https://open.substack.com/pub/davidroberts/p/decarbonizing-a-sprawling-university

Whitepaper: Industrial Policy with Conditionalities

 Check out this whitepaper: Industrial Policy with Conditionalities: A Taxonomy and Sample Cases  by Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Professor Dani Rodrik https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2023/oct/industrial-policy-conditionalities-taxonomy-and-sample-cases In the context of a shift towards longer-term, public-value-oriented economic thinking, there is a real opportunity to reimagine the contracts that structure public-private relationships. Similar reasoning could also be relevant to the relationship between different public entities, such as the relationship between a country’s state-owned enterprise and the Treasury: benefits to the SOE can be structured with conditions to make sure the SOE directs its investments in particular ways, shares knowledge, makes products/services accessible, etc. Redesigning these contracts means redesigning the direction of the economy from the ground up. To succeed, modern industrial policies must be deliberately sust...

Hold big companies accountable for their commitments

 Here’s something we can all do - hold big companies accountable for their commitments! Washington Post report Evan Halper writes: Companies made big climate pledges. Now they are balking on delivering. At a crucial moment in the fight against climate change, the world’s biggest companies are not delivering on their commitments to curb warming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/03/climate-corporate-cop28/

The US installed more solar in 2023 than ever before

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Canary Media writes: The US installed more solar in 2023 than ever before The industry saw 55% growth over 2022, according to forecasts — but headwinds threaten to temper the momentum in the years ahead. (58 kB)  https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/chart-the-us-installed-more-solar-in-2023-than-ever-before

Read the Tesla plan to decarbonize the economy

Start the new year by reading this Tesla plan to decarbonize the economy: https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf