CEPP in the News

Berkeley's Carbon Trading Project's article Pervasive over-crediting from cookstove offset methodologies was published in Nature Sustainability. We comprehensively and quantitatively assessed the quality of five cookstoves offset methodologies, finding that they likely over-credit by around ten times. We offer specific actionable recommendations for revising the methodologies, and in the mean time, methods that can be used by individual projects, to accurately estimate project benefits. January 23, 2024. 

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CEPP's new study, Quality Assessment of REDD+ Carbon Credit Projects, was covered in dedicated articles by Bloomberg, Offset Market Hit by Fresh Allegations of False CO2 Claims, and by The Guardian, Rainforest carbon credit schemes misleading and ineffective, finds report. September 15, 2023.  

Dr. Neil Tangri, Senior Research Fellow at the Goldman School of Public Policy is quoted in a comprehensive story on international plastics pollution negotiations, "UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It". Groups that Tangri is supporting recently succeeded in limiting chemical plastics recycling from being included in the Basel Convention protocols, which influence negotiations over a gobal plastics pollution agreement.  Dr. Tangri will attend the next round of UN Environmental Program negotiations in Paris at the end of May. May 17, 2023. 

David Wooley's Op-ed Moderate Republicans should support a clean electricity standard was published by The Hill.  

Abstract: Who are the leading protectors of environmental health? It’s often not who you think. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the most successful environmental law in history, would never have happened without leadership from moderate Republicans in the Senate. Where would the wind energy industry be today without Republican Sen. Grassley of Iowa? I was there when Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger established the first goal to reduce climate pollution in California. I was there when New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, decided to establish a renewable portfolio standard, a forerunner of the currently proposed Clean Energy Standard (CES) (to achieve 80 percent of our country’s power from emission-free sources by 2030). And today I hope to see moderate Republicans support a CES as part of the infrastructure package. Continue reading. May 7, 2021.

Energy Wire published the article, E-Trucks on Track to Beat Diesels on Cost about CEPP's March report, Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now. March 2021. 

Forbes published the article, Cheap Batteries Could Soon Make Electric Freight Trucks 50% Cheaper To Own Than Diesal about CEPP's March report, Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now. March 2021. 

David Wooley's article Nationwide Clean Energy ... By 2035 was featured in American Energy Society, Energy Today. August 24th, 2020

David Wooley's Op-Ed, The truth about the future of gas: We don't need to build anymore, was published in Utility Dive. June 22nd, 2020

Forbes published the article, Plunging Renewable Energy Prices Mean U.S. Can Hit 90% Clean Electricity By 2035 - At No Extra Cost, about CEPP's 2035 report. June 9th, 2020

CEPP's 2035 report was cited in The New York Times, The Next Energy Battle: Renewables vs. Natural Gas. July 6th, 2020

CEPP's 2035 report was cited in The New Yorker's Newsletter, The Climate Crisis, Climate School. June 17th, 2020

The Utility Dive published the article, Falling renewable, storage costs make 90% carbon-free US grid feasible by 2035, UC Berkeley finds, about CEPP's 2035 report. June 9th, 2020

David Wooley, Professor and CEPP Executive Director wrote Clean Air: Unfinished Business that was published in GSPP's Fall 2018 Policy Notes.

Dan Kammen's Op-Ed, Green is Gold for California, US, appeared in the Friday August 17th, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle. Kammen summarizes the green energy economic opportunities that California and US should not miss. He advocates for the passage of the “100 Percent Clean Energy Act” (Senate Bill 100), which would establish a bold goal of 100 percent clean, zero-carbon electricity by 2045.

CEPP Executive Director, David Wooley was featured in the Cal Alumni Association's California Magazine in February 2018. Read the article: A Train Going Nowhere: How Can We Get U.S. Infrastructure On Track?

Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy, Solomon Hsiang's Op-Ed, Don’t Let Puerto Rico Fall Into an Economic Abyss, co-authored with Trevor Hauser, a partner at the Rhodium Group appeared in the Friday September 29th, 2017 New York Times.

Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy Dan Kammen was featured in the fall issue of Breakthrough Magazine, the publication of the College of Natural Resources.

Dan Kammen gave a talk at the MIT Energy Initiative examining the current state of clean energy innovation and implementation, both in the U.S. and internationally.