Topic: renewable energy

WHAT:

Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a journalist-only climate change policy briefing next Friday that will arm you with fresh analysis and insight for this fall’s crowded climate agenda. WRI president Jonathan Lash will give an overview of domestic and international prospects for progress, and how they intersect. WRI’s new Climate and Energy Program Director, Jennifer Morgan, and our new China Country Director Zou Ji (bios attached) will provide unique insight into the UN climate negotiations and Chinese progress and thinking on climate action. This will be followed by a domestic policy panel. WRI analysts will deconstruct the American Clean Energy and Security Act (emission reductions, allowances, offsets, benefits to states etc) and our states policy team will dissect what federal climate legislators can learn from successful state climate actions

The briefing will be followed by a question and answer session and a happy hour for reporters to follow up individually with our climate experts.

Concentrating solar thermal (CST), a renewable energy technology that can provide electricity around-the-clock, has the potential to replace traditional fossil fuel-based power sources and become a central part of the U.S. power supply.

Climate experts at the World Resources Institute (WRI) applaud the six Midwestern governors and Manitoban premier who have released today recommendations for a regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Proposed pollution caps in the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) would result in reductions of total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. This is less than the 17 percent reduction from 2005 levels that the previous Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft as released would have achieved, according to a new analysis released by the World Resources Institute.

Stressed water supplies in the Southeast United States could be relieved by introducing energy and water conservation policies outlined in a report released today by the World Resources Institute, Southface and Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance.

WHAT: The World Resources Institute (WRI), Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA), and Southface will hold a tele-press conference to discuss the third report in a three-part series on energy opportunities in the Southeast United States. Water and Watts examines the region’s heavy dependence on water for electricity produced at coal and nuclear power plants. The report shows how clean energy policies can protect diminishing freshwater supplies and meet the energy demands of a growing population.

Energy efficiency policies in the Southeast U.S. can help reduce electricity use by more than 10 percent over the next six years - saving the same amount of power generated by more than 30 coal-fired power plants, according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA), and Southface.

More than 25 percent of the Southeast U.S. region’s electric power could come from locally-available renewable energy supplies by 2025, according to findings released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI), Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), and Southface.