… This report seeks to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an internal carbon charge. Internal carbon pricing is a powerful tool the private sector can employ to … considered as a single instrument, could prove cost-effective for internalizing the two market failures associated with climate change: accounting for both the carbon emissions and …
… The Renewable Thermal Alliance’s challenge isstraightforward: to develop the infrastructure for large-scale deployment of renewable … based on fossil fuels and is hence a high-impact area. Based on the notion that the thermal market is regional rather than state bound, that viable business models can add value, that …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable … energy deployment. A truly clean electricity grid, however, will need to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout the day and year, and everywhere electricity is used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market for RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, acrosssettings, the issues that preventmarket emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are …
… Should policymakers incentivize electric vehicle (EV) purchases first or invest in charging stations first? … thisso-called chicken-and-egg dilemma and provides recommendations for growing the EV market and increasing investment in EV charging stations. We compare EV markets acrossstates with a focus on New York, which falls in the middle of the 50 states …
… Started in 2012, Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services is a webinar series that … from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbonstored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses … presents an opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth into the market. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are moving into thisspace in hopes …
… Building from recent research testing strategies and messages that are most conducive to solar adoption, this new project … with partner organizations to explore ways to broaden the appeal of solar power to a massmarket, including low- and moderate-income households. Building from recent research testing …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … to adopt technology, and whether the technology is correctly used. Social science and marketing literature on diffusion of technologies hasstressed the importance of social …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment partnered with the Connecticut Green Bank, Eversource, United … assess a realistic contribution from RTTs in achieving Connecticut’s transition to a lesscarbon-intensive economy, and to establish the knowledge necessary for effective policies and strategies to advance RTTs in Connecticut. In addition to thismarket potential study, the project included a field study on RTT market barriers and …
… Renewable Thermal Technologies (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy … Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) analyzed the residential energy consumption and carbon emission by end-use and fuel type. From there, we investigated how much air-source …