Report

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.

New Performance-based Standards for Standby Power: Reexamining Policies to Address Changing Power Needs

This paper notes that the advances in technology, the increase and changing needs for standby generation, and environmental concerns suggests a new look at standby generation codes and standards.

Low-Carbon Technologies in the Post-Bali Period: Accelerating Their Development and Deployment

This report is based on a background study and seminar on Strategic Aspects of Technology for the UNFCCC and Climate Change Debate: The Post-Bali Technology Agenda, organized under the auspices of the European Climate Platform (ECP), a joint initiative of Climate Policy Research Programme and Centre for European Policy Studies.

Consultative Group on Climate Innovation: A Proposed Complementary Technology Track for the Post-2012 Period

This paper proposes a specific structure for a new “distributed innovation” approach to climate technology, building and expanding on the earlier recommendations of the UN Foundation and the Club of Madrid.

Massive Climate Technology Innovation: A New Geometry of Complementary Strategies Post-2012

This paper describes a complementary “climate technology innovation process” that could be pursued to scale up existing low carbon technologies and create “breakthrough” disruptive technologies in many energy sectors, including renewables and CO2 capture and storage.

A New Geometry of Complementary Climate Technology Solutions: What the Heiligendamm G8 Summit Could Mean for a Post-2012 Climate Framework

This report reviews new commitments for climate technology measures from the Heiligendamm Summit Declaration that could structure a post-2012 framework for climate mitigation that could complement cap and trade strategies.

From Here to Stabilization: A Call for Massive Climate Technology Innovation

This report examines the need for low carbon technology innovation to achieve necessary reductions of greenhouse gas emissions for climate stabilization.