About Breakthrough Institute:

Breakthrough's mission is to accelerate the transition to a future where all the world's inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, and prosperous lives on an ecologically vibrant planet. The Breakthrough Institute is a paradigm-shifting think tank committed to modernizing environmentalism for the 21st century. Our core values are integrity, imagination and audacity.

Posts by Breakthrough Institute:

Clarifying 21st Century Energy And Climate Challenges

Africa Solar Energy

Global energy consumption is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades. But established projections don’t even come close to accounting for modern energy access for all.

Urban Density, Renewables Don’t Add Up To A Climate Solution

New York City

The Breakthrough Institute writes about how urban density doesn’t lend itself well to being powered through low carbon energy alone.

The UK’s New Zero-Carbon Energy Alliance

Offshore UK wind power

Breakthrough Institute looks at how climate change is bringing together nuclear, wind and the CCS industries in the United Kingdom.

How The Economics Of The Left And Right Have Failed The Electric Car

Leaf_Nichon_Home Power Station

The Breakthrough Institute takes a look at how policy makers, influenced by Neo-Keynesians on the Left or neoclassicists on the Right, have thus far failed to spur the necessary innovations that will make electric cars competitive.

How We Made Clean Energy Cheaper

Wind power

The Breakthrough Institute takes a look at how public investments are helping to make costs associated with clean energy less expensive.

Beyond Boom and Bust: Clean Tech And Subsidy Independence

new york solar power

Breakthrough Institute, in a report co-authored by Brookings Institution and the World Resources Institute, counsel a thorough revamping of American clean energy policies to prioritize innovation and cost declines.

Energy Efficiency, ‘Rebound,’ And The Rise Of The Rest

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Breakthrough Institute, in its EarthTechling debut, talks about the economic dynamics by which energy efficiency improvements lead to a rebound in demand for now-more-efficient energy services.