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Last month, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs released the state’s Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 (2025/2030 CECP). The CECP establishes sector-specific emissions targets for Massachusetts in 2025 and 2030, which will reduce statewide GHG emissions by 33% in 2025 and 50%
EER worked with Third Way on launching Carbon-Free Europe, a new research initiative to inform communities, individuals, and policymakers about the necessary technologies and policies for a net-zero future. In this initial phase, EER detailed five European decarbonization pathways that could meet or exceed the 2030 ambition of Europe'
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The EER team has released a white paper to advance understanding of carbon management's role in energy and industry to facilitate the U.S. achieving net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century. The analysis underpinning the white paper features state-of-art modeling of a net-zero U.S. energy system and incorporates
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Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves have become the de facto starting point for comparing GHG emission reduction measures since being popularized more than a decade ago. While these analyses remain widely recognized, traditional MAC methodologies are ill-suited for providing key insights for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. A new MAC
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Achieving net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century requires a shift to low-carbon technologies throughout our energy system, many of which are not yet at significant commercial scale. This suggests that R&D has a critical role to play in enabling the technologies that are necessary to rapidly reduce emissions. How
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The team at EER published a new paper today in the journal AGU Advances titled "Carbon‐Neutral Pathways for the United States." The work features the state-of-the-art in economy-wide, bottom-up, energy modeling with high temporal fidelity and encapsulates our learning from the several dozen decarbonization studies we have
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EER, in collaboration with Tempus Analítica (TA), has published a study on a whole-economy Deep Decarbonization Pathway for Mexico. The paper, available here, finds that while the existing climate policy in Mexico is not compatible with Paris Agreement goals, Mexico can achieve these goals on a Deep Decarbonization Pathway. The
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Today, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs released a Decarbonization Roadmap for the Commonwealth that is one of the most detailed and considered state decarbonization plans to date. A link to the study materials can be found here. The study materials are divided into six technical reports
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Today, Princeton University released the interim report of their Net-Zero America Project (NZAP). This is the culmination of over two years of work and outlines feasible transitions to net-zero emissions in the U.S. with a new level of specificity and granularity. The project uses EER's EnergyPATHWAYS and
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EER releases a new national analysis on federal policy for a low-carbon, high-renewables electricity system that can enable economy-wide net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. This work explores the least-cost electricity system consistent with an economy-wide pathway to carbon neutrality and which federal policies can most effectively enable that system. Insights
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The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) launched the SDSN USA network in December 2018 to mobilize academic institutions throughout the country to work towards the U.N. sustainable development goals. In October of 2020, SDSN USA launched the Zero Carbon Action Plan (ZCAP), building upon the success of the Deep
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Today, EER releases new analysis for the state of Florida outlining a detailed energy system transition strategy for the state that is compatible with returning atmospheric CO2 concentrations to 350 ppm by 2100. This work was done in partnership with Our Children's Trust, and can be downloaded here.