Report

Accelerating Climate Technologies: Innovative Market Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Scale-Up

This report shows that successful climate technology innovation may come from where we least expect it – not from the private sector alone or from developed countries – but from emerging markets in developing economies.

Crossing the Valley of Death: Solutions to the Next Generation Clean Energy Project Financing Gap

This report evaluates current gaps in financing for emerging clean energy technologies, and potential ways to bridge those gaps.

Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and Recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism

In this new report, Clean Energy Group recommends that Congress establish a new “Clean Energy Federalism” to expand the historic role of states to fund and deploy clean energy projects, create jobs, and grow the clean energy sector.

Climate Crash Course for Copenhagen: The Six Simple Reasons Why We Need Global Technology Collaboration

This brief 8-page document addresses the “why” of international technology collaboration — the basic reasons why global technology policies – for product development — beyond cap and trade are needed for stabilization.

International Climate Technology Innovation Initiative: Structure and Strategy: A Proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement “Technology Track”

This report makes recommendations for how an international technology collaboration could be structured.

Accelerated Climate Technology Innovation Initiative (ACT II): A New Distributed Strategy to Reform the U.S. Energy Innovation System

This report from Clean Energy Group and the Meridian Institute recommends that the Obama Administration should use corporate “open and distributed innovation” strategies to accelerate research and development for clean energy and climate change technologies.

Smart Solar Marketing Strategies: Clean Energy State Program Guide

This report informs states on how they can act more like retail marketers to establish the financial and energy value of solar technology for the consumer.

Climate Technology Innovation: Picking Winners- Some Thoughts to Consider

This paper sets out some countervailing arguments that governments and other donors should not be in the business of picking winners. The authors argue that technology-based policy and incentives are needed to address long term climate stabilization.

Climate Technology Innovation: A New Global Strategy and Structure

This report outlines a new approach to the climate innovation process.

Clean Energy State Program Guide – Mainstreaming Solar Electricity: Strategies for States to Build Local Markets

This report describes the key policies and program strategies that have emerged as effective tools for states to advance wide-spread solar deployment.