Tag Archives: Climate change

Prizing Practicality over Ideology to Address Climate Change

As the climate crisis worsens, and the evidence of its destructive impact becomes more vivid, the conflict over how best to address the challenge is throwing more heat than light. A recent article makes the case against a significant role for nuclear power as a carbon free response to the ravages of climate change. But,…
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Injecting Reality into the Nuclear-Climate Conversation

In the hyper-polarized political, media, and factual environment in which we are increasingly living, it is rare to find an insightful, balanced analysis on the pathway to effective global decarbonization that cuts across parties, tribes and ideological battle lines. Bloomberg NEF, has delivered this message and it is worth reading and acting on, whether you are…
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ADVANCING NUCLEAR INNOVATION: Responding to Climate Change and Strengthening Global Security

Advancing Nuclear Innovation: Responding to Climate Change and Strengthening Global Security This report is a culmination of meetings and effort from Partnership for Global Security and the Nuclear Energy Institute under the Global Nexus Initiative. Advanced nuclear reactors, the smaller, flexible, and innovative nuclear technologies of the future, are rising in importance as the global community…
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FAILING ON CLIMATE AND LOSING ON GEOPOLITICS

It has been a long time since anyone believed that Washington D.C. was America’s hub of innovation and public policy creativity, but it has remained a place where national security matters. Unfortunately, as the parameters of American national security continue to cycle through a rapid evolution, our political leaders are too divided to clearly focus…
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