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Breakthrough's energy director Jessica Lovering spoke last month
at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on why America's existing
nuclear power plants are crucial for national climate goals. She was
joined by Oklo Power's Caroline Cochrane, UC Berkeley's Lucas Davis,
NuScale's Jose Reyes, venture capitalist Ray Rothrock, and the San
Francisco Chronicle's David Baker, discussing the present and future of
nuclear power in the United States.
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Towards Peak Impact
The Evidence for Decoupling
In his latest piece, Breakthrough's
conservation director Linus Blomqvist takes a methodical, empirical
look at "decoupling" – the phenomenon of sustaining economic and social
growth while reducing environmental impacts. Summarizing last year's
blockbuster report Nature Unbound,
Blomqvist examines minerals, food, biomass, greenhouse emissions, and
other trends. "Decoupling is possible," he writes, "and for now, I
remain cautiously optimistic that human development and a flourishing
natural world can coexist."
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Adaptation for a High-Energy Planet
A Climate Pragmatism Project
Last month, Breakthrough and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes published Adaptation for a High-Energy Planet. The third in a series of reports that includes Our High-Energy Planet and High-Energy Innovation,
this new paper argues that adaptation extreme events, be brought to the
center of debates around climate policy. The goal laid out in Adaptation for a High-Energy Planet is
simple and can be supported regardless of views about global climate
risk: reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of extreme weather
and disasters every year, while still accelerating modernization and
low-carbon growth on an increasingly high-energy planet. This requires
innovative, pragmatic approaches to strengthening climate resilience.
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The Myth of Expensive Nuclear Power
Breakthough Report featured at OilPrice.com
At OilPrice.com, Euan Mearns explains the findings of new nuclear cost data published by Breakthrouh researchers earlier this spring in the journal Energy Policy. "So what’s the bottom line?" Mearns asks. "Basically that nuclear power is expensive only if a country chooses to make it so."
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Bernie Sanders wants to phase out nuclear power plants. Is that a good idea?
Grist article examines Breakthrough's stance on the matter
Climate change is picking up prominence in
the US presidential race, with debates between Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton over fracking, nuclear power, and fossil money in
politics. Grist's Ben Adler dug into Sanders' plan to phase out America's fleet of nuclear reactors. Adler cited Breakthrough's Ted Nordhaus, who recently argued against "Sanders’ implausible plans and casual disregard for the Obama administration's hard-fought progress."
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Isn't It Crucial to Have Some Food Waste?
At her blog, Rachel Laudan offers a challenge to the discourse over food waste: isn't it crucial, she asks, to have some food waste? Follow the link for Laudan's intriguing framework for understanding food supply and some helpful context from Breakthrough's Marian Swain.
Climate Campaigner Bill McKibben's Misleading Anti-Fracking Crusade
Reason's Ron Bailey wrote about the fracking debate last month, siding with Breakthrough's Ted Nordhaus against 350.org's Bill McKibben, the latter of whom recently claimed that natural gas is worse for climate change than coal.
Last week, Breakthrough's
research staff met with UK Secretary of Energy and Climate Change Amber
Rudd over how to use public policy to accelerate energy innovation. Rudd
is pictured above, along with Breakthroughs executive director Peter
Teague, research director Ted Nordhaus, and energy director Jessica
Lovering.
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