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Not Cool: How the EPA’s Refrigerant Rollback Will Raise Your Grocery and AC Costs

Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Doniger, Dr. Richie Kaur, Jeremy Arling
NRDC and industry are suing over cost-raising delays in moving away from HFC super pollutants in supermarkets and cold storage warehouses.
A protester holds up a sign at a Stand up For Science rally held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, on March 7, 2025.

Political Control of Research Funding Threatens Sound Science

Expert BlogUnited States
Decades of federal research funding have led to breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and environmental science. A new OMB proposal aims to derail all of this through political interference.
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corporation, speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft Corp. campus in Redmond, Washington, on January 16, 2020. Microsoft unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth's atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren't enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The Carbon Removal Market Can Work—If We Build It Right

Expert BlogUnited StatesSam F. Savitz, Dr. Jennifer DiStefano
The CDR industry’s reliance on Microsoft shows the limits of voluntary climate action—and the need for government to do its part. It’s time to take the trash out of our atmosphere.
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US International Climate Finance Fails to Rise to the Moment

Expert BlogInternational, United StatesJake Schmidt
The final funding allocation falls pitifully short of what is needed to make a real difference in mobilizing necessary climate action and supporting the most vulnerable countries. This short-changed investment leaves the U.S. severely lacking the leadership the world needs…

Climate Change Disclosures: Is 2022 the Year?

Expert BlogUnited StatesTom Zimpleman
The SEC says it is considering requiring climate change disclosures from companies. Here is what those disclosures might look like, and what we should expect them to accomplish.

Green Banks: Taking Climate Finance from Pledge to Project

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalCarolina Herrera

Local green banks and development finance institutions have a key role to play in channeling public finance to where it’s most needed most and unlocking private capital to jump start new local green markets.

OCC Commits to Next Step on Climate Risk for Banks

Expert BlogUnited StatesSarah Dougherty

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency committed to putting out guidance on how it will integrate climate risks in its oversight of banks.

Time for Next Step on Climate Risk for Banks

Expert BlogUnited StatesRoger Baneman, Sarah Dougherty

Climate risk is just like any emerging financial risk that bank regulators must start to include in their oversight of banks.

US Commits to More International Climate Finance

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalBrendan Guy, Jake Schmidt

The U.S. needs to urgently mobilize more international climate finance if we are going to have a chance of a successful climate summit in Glasgow this November, and any chance of keeping 1.5°C alive.

US Climate Finance Plan Restricts Fossil Fuel Finance

Expert BlogUnited States, BrazilJake Schmidt, Han Chen
This is a clear signal the United States will move away from financing coal, oil and gas projects overseas. Now is the time to make sure the details deliver on that necessary drive to urgently shift public financing from dirty…

How to Make Two Vital Tax Incentives Even Better

Expert BlogUnited StatesRoger Baneman
Renewable energy tax credits and tax-exempt municipal bonds would be even more effective if their benefits were also available as direct cash grants.

More than Words: Greater Climate Ambition Needed

Expert BlogInternational, United StatesAnjali Jaiswal
Looking ahead, leaders need to step up in the sprint to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) meeting in Glasgow next November – starting with reviving U.S.-India climate cooperation under the new Biden Administration.

Financing Climate Action: Montreal Protocol Highlights

Expert BlogIndia, InternationalAnjali Jaiswal
Countries discuss the amount of funding for the Montreal Protocol's phase down of heat-trapping HFCs for 2021 to 2023, with current funds ending this December. Sustainable cooling is the hot topic in side discussions, especially in light of COVID-19.