Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
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Firm capacity in Central America: Definitions and implications for variable renewable energy
Firm capacity assesses the contribution of a power plant to meeting demand during critical conditions. This report explores the key factors that affect the estimation of a more equitable firm capacity
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Solar energy in utility integrated resource plans: factors that can impact customer clean energy goals
This working paper focuses on key issues that influence the amount of solar energy incorporated in integrated resource plans, and how these plans can impact customer clean energy goals. Many electric utilities
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Success factors for electric carsharing
Using electric vehicles for carsharing can enhance the environmental benefits of such programs. This briefing details electric carsharing in Europe and North America and provides insights into charging
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Actions large energy buyers can take to transform and decarbonize the grid: procurement practices for achieving 100% carbon free electricity
Large energy buyers—including companies and cities—play an important role in the clean energy transition. But in the coming decades, large energy buyers will need to go further and take additional actions
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Banking beyond climate commitments: transforming client engagement and products & services for a net-zero emissions future
This paper focuses on answering the following question: how can a private sector bank—one that has already committed to shifting its business model towards net-zero emissions—change its client engagement
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Sports and urban biodiversity: a framework for achieving mutual benefits for nature and sports in cities
Investing in nature and nature-based solutions is an important pathway to address the current ecological crisis. The loss of biodiversity, with around one million animal and plant species threatened with
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Race to zero: How manufacturers are positioned for zero-emission commercial trucks and buses in North America
This paper summarizes the new vehicle sales market for Class 2 through Class 8 heavy-duty truck and buses in the United States and Canada. In addition, it profiles the early market for zero-emission HDVs
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Accelerated dryland expansion regulates future variability in dryland gross primary production
<p>Drylands cover 41% of Earth’s surface and are the largest source of interannual variability in the global carbon sink.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/dryland-expansion.pdf"
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Does bioenergy improve forest management?
Policies in the European Union, the United States, and Canada support the use of forest biomass in heating, power generation, and transportation as a climate mitigation strategy. However, research conflicts