Rmi Outlet
Areas of Innovation
RMI Raising Ambition at COP24
For the first two weeks of December 2018, thousands of delegates converged on a coal-mining city in Poland to provide forward momentum on global climate change commitments. A key question was how governments plan to respond to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the…
COP24: Calling on the World to Act
Three years after the landmark Paris agreement was signed, more than 190 countries are meeting at COP24 in Katowice, Poland, to design the “rulebook” for the global climate deal and figure out the details around how to translate these bold and binding goals into action and results. For Rocky Mountain…
Fulfilling America’s Pledge on Climate Change Means Turning Data-Driven Research into Real World Action
In the United States, as in every country around the world, opportunities for climate leadership exist at every level of governance. So despite what the headlines may say about current inaction on climate change at the federal level, businesses, cities, and states are laying the groundwork for America’s low carbon…
Rocket Ships and Corporate Commitments: The Newest Tools in the Fight Against Climate Change
Elon Musk isn’t the only person to have big plans for innovation in the final frontier of space. In fact, as climate change continues to threaten a two-degree warming limit for this planet, one organization is going extraterrestrial to try and lock down the most dangerous greenhouse gas emissions we…
Cutting Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Production: One of the Year’s Biggest Energy Challenges
Leave it to the rocket scientists to solve our biggest climate mysteries. That’s exactly what NASA has done to kick off 2018, using a spectrometer imaging satellite to measure global methane emissions—a potent greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change—and revealing an alarming increase in these emissions that threatens our climate.