How can #geothermal energy address energy security, energy access, and environmental sustainability challenges in the Middle East and Africa? Earlier this year, CATF's Superhot Rock Energy team contributed to a webinar hosted by KAPSARC and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) exploring the potential of geothermal energy. The results of that insightful discussion are now available online, along with policy recommendations to help scale geothermal development: https://lnkd.in/g_4FGy2g
Clean Air Task Force
Public Policy Offices
Boston, Massachusetts 15,237 followers
Catalyzing resilient solutions, scaled to meet the climate challenge.
About us
CATF works to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector. CATF is a group of climate and energy experts with decades of collective knowledge and experience. We are scientists, engineers, MBAs, policy experts, lawyers and communications professionals who achieve impact through technology innovation, policy advocacy, and thought leadership.
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- Public Policy Offices
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- 51-200 employees
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- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Nonprofit
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- 1996
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- Climate Change, Energy, and Policy
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With a new government for the first time in 14 years, the #UK has an opportunity to re-establish its domestic and international leadership in tackling #climatechange. See how CATF is leveraging this opportunity and building on the UK’s interest in exploring a range of options to achieve climate goals, including nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage, low-carbon hydrogen, and methane mitigation. https://lnkd.in/eZEn7_N4
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"This plan will help ensure that clean energy projects move forward without compromising the health of ecosystems." CATF's Nicole Pavia commends the Bureau of Land Management's Western Solar Plan to expand the availability of applications for utility-scale solar development across 31 million acres of public lands in 11 western states. "It’s a critical step toward realizing the full potential of clean energy on U.S. public lands while also protecting communities from the worsening impacts of climate change.” https://lnkd.in/ewPzM2S2
BLM takes critical step forward with updated Western Solar Plan, accelerates clean energy deployment while safeguarding climate
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#CarbonCapture and storage will be critical to meet global climate targets. CATF Technology and Markets Director, John Thompson, recently spoke with Utility Dive Contributing Editor, Herman Trabish, on the United States Energy Association Power Sector podcast on the basics of carbon capture technologies and the policies needed to scale it. https://lnkd.in/ecsgZ85g
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How can Central and Eastern European countries strengthen their economic and energy security through critical infrastructure and clean energy deployment? At this week’s GLOBSEC Forum in #Prague, CATF will host a side session bringing together experts and stakeholders in the CEE to discuss how the region can collaborate on financing and deploying clean energy and infrastructure projects to enhance energy security, lower prices, and boost industrial competitiveness. Speakers include Dr. Peter Hefele, Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies; WERNER HOYER, President, European Investment Bank (EIB) 2012-2023; and Andrei Covatariu, Research Fellow, Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). Attending #GLOBSEC2024? CATF’s Tamara Lagurashvili, Malwina Qvist, Ph.D., and Alex Carr will be on the ground in Prague throughout the week – be sure to connect with them! https://lnkd.in/dUXaPY7W
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, the energy sector represents the main source of #methane emissions. At OLADE - Organización Latinoamericana de Energía's First Regional Methane Summit, experts gathered to discuss best practices to #CutMethane from oil and gas, including through stronger data collection, monitoring, and reporting to drive effective action. CATF's Jonathan Banks emphasized the need for more robust methane inventories, highlighting that better data means better strategies to tackle emissions and reduce the climate impact of methane. https://lnkd.in/dBf27v-C #CumbreMetano2024 #CambioClimático #EnergíaSostenible
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As Europe ramps up its deployment of #carboncapture and storage to meet climate targets, it has become clear that captured CO2 will need to travel freely around the region for storage. Not every industrial site in Europe will have access to suitable geology for CO2 storage within its own country. But the #UK’s exit from the #EU has meant that its huge potential storage capacity can no longer be used for CO2 emissions from EU-based sources. In a new blog, CATF’s Toby Lockwood explores how maximising available storage sites, including opening up access to UK storage, can drive down costs and accelerate decarbonisation in both jurisdictions. https://lnkd.in/esFsniin
Carbon dioxide without borders: Connecting the UK and EU can create a more resilient and lower-cost CO2 storage network
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Global air travel – responsible for 2-3% of total CO2 emissions in 2022 – is a critical sector to decarbonize to meet our climate goals. Decarbonizing aviation is one of the most difficult challenges within the transportation sector – in large part because the weight and space constraints of air travel are most cost-effectively met using energy-dense fossil fuels. Many countries have made commitments to reduce the aviation industry’s climate impacts by increasing the use of sustainable aviation fuels, but aviation demand could double projected sustainable aviation fuel by midcentury. CATF analysis evaluates other fuel options that could supplement sustainable aviation fuel shortfalls and ultimately finds that a combination of fuels is a plausible deep decarbonization strategy for the aviation sector. https://lnkd.in/e9TEykUC
Making sense of our options to decarbonize aviation
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The voluntary carbon market is facing an existential crisis. In a new op-ed for Latitude Media, CATF’s Kathy Fallon writes that “the growing gulf between opportunity and reality — both in the United States and internationally — underscores the need for additional government oversight of the voluntary carbon market to protect investors, prevent manipulation, and ensure the market delivers the intended climate benefits.” https://lnkd.in/eggukJHk
Can US regulators save the voluntary carbon market? | Latitude Media
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60% of EU countries have yet to submit their final updated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs)for 2030 – two months after the deadline. CATF's Alejandra Muñoz Castañer spoke with POLITICO Europe on the importance of using #NECPs to address the EU's climate planning gap. Europe’s NECPs are critical planning documents meant to set out the EU Member States’ targets, policies, and measures that will enable them to reach the 2030 EU climate targets. https://lnkd.in/eAwRfF5T
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