WRI works with businesses, governments, and researchers of all kinds to ensure that technologies to provide low-carbon energy effectively, efficiently, and inexpensively are available and deployed around the world.
WRI works with business, policymakers, and researchers to move the world toward cleaner, less expensive forms of power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make low-carbon energy available everywhere.
This working paper identifies key components of smart renewable
energy policy in developing countries, focusing on
the power sector. It also provides recommendations
for maximizing the effectiveness of international
support for deployment of renewable energies,
drawn from these on-the-ground experiences in
developing countries.
Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a comprehensive study on renewable energy, entitled Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. The report finds that by 2050, nearly 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be provided by renewable energy sources. WRI Analyst Lutz Weischer, who works on renewable energy policies, sat down to talk about the report’s implications.
WRI is pleased to have been an NGO co-sponsor of the 6th Annual Asia Clean Energy Forum from June 20-24, focusing on new business models and policy drivers to build a low-carbon future.
Jenna Goodward, Rachel Massaro, Benjamin Foster, and Caroline Judy, in collaboration with Alex Perera and Christopher Lau
April, 2011
This Best Practices Guide is intended to assist
commercial and government entities in the process of
organizing and executing a collaborative solar purchase.
This report examines electricity transmission developments and
challenges for renewable energy in the European Union (EU), China, and
the United States.
The Two Degrees of Innovation project works with researchers, engineers, policymakers and other practitioners to create the conditions for global innovation in clean energy, from research to deployment.
In this testimony, Senior Advisor Deborah Seligsohn discusses China’s energy systems, future energy plans, and the business opportunities these create for other countries.