THE CHALLENGE
The need for robust, fact-based analysis of climate and energy policies has never been greater. Decision makers around the world confront a critical choice: maintain the current trajectory of carbon-intensive growth and resource exploitation, or strike a new path toward sustainable, low-carbon development that steers clear of dangerous climate change. The stakes could not be higher, but our lawmakers and regulators often lack the right information, at the right time, to make wise decisions about energy and emissions.
As nations address climate change, they will do so primarily through domestic policymaking that will steer vast sums of capital toward either clean or dirty technology. Governments will have to weigh how these policies affect employment, economic development, and financial systems. Unfortunately, public institutions often lack the capacity to design, carry out, and evaluate the complex policies needed to promote low-carbon development. To avoid fraud and gaming in the private sector, decision makers must be able to tap state-of-the-art research at the nexus of finance, regulation, and technology.
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) fills this gap by providing best-in-class analysis to governments, focusing on implementation and drawing lessons from around the world to improve outcomes.