Fully Electrifying Delivery Vehicles — Insights from Shenzhen
The topic of urban freight is more important today than ever before. We have seen and experienced firsthand the role of urban delivery vehicles throughout the COVID-19 pandemic …
Author: RMI
Wind & Solar: The New Cash Crops
How rural America can capitalize on the economic development benefits of the ongoing clean energy transition.
Taking A Regional Approach To Electric Vehicle Readiness
Getting around cities in electric vehicles (EVs) is getting easier as EV infrastructure grows. But traveling between cities is still a challenge as infrastructure, incentives, and policies aren’t always implemented on a regional scale.
Breathing Life Back Into Cities: Improving Air Quality & Equity Through Recovery Efforts
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) this week released an analysis outlining four strategies for advancing both air quality and equity that cities can use to build back better from the pandemic, the economic downturn and a growing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.
New Guide Shows Climate Actions Already Benefiting States & Regions, Provides Blueprint For Governments To…
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the Under2 Coalition of states and regions today released a handbook detailing five transformative actions, regional governments can take to limit the effects of climate change while bringing other beneficial impacts to society.
Air Pollution: Here For All Seasons?
An email in my inbox today proclaimed, “it’s September and we’re heading into pollution season in many regions.” I was taken aback. Does pollution have a season? Of course, there is seasonal variability to certain pollutants but, unfortunately, pollution lives with us in and outside our homes in every season.
Climate Intelligence Is Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Services — a $30 billion-plus combination of software and service industries — has enabled dramatic advances in corporate performance. It empowers insight and intelligence-driven strategies and institutional decision-making and offers some of the most powerful tools at our disposal to turn down the global climate change thermostat.
Climate Change Is Ravaging California. It’s Time To Electrify.
COVID-19 isn’t the only crisis taking a toll on California this summer. Record-breaking heat has helped fuel the largest wildfire season on record, with more than two million acres already burned. Smoke from the fires has blanketed much of the state, causing some of the worst air quality in the world.
The Way The World Needs To Move Forward On Climate Action: Climate Alignment
To make fundamental breakthroughs in addressing the causes of climate change, we need to dramatically shift the way we think and act on climate. To date, the world has primarily — and understandably — tackled the issue as a project of nations, leaving countries to formulate their action plans in silos, sometimes even in secrecy. But business doesn’t stop at the border, and neither do emissions.
Electric Trucks Are Coming. Where Should They Go?
Electric trucks made national headlines earlier this month when a new study from Woods Mackenzie projected that 54,000 electric trucks would be on US roads by 2025 — approximately 27 times current stock. With an ever-increasing focus on climate solutions — particularly for the biggest emitting sector, transportation — it’s no surprise that the production of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles seems to be headed for the express lane.
