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Accelerating Cities’ Net Zero Action
In partnership with Boston University Institute of Sustainable Energy, the British Embassy Washington and its US network released the Accelerating Cities’ Net Zero Action report, highlighting key takeaways from partnership and innovative financing visioning labs.
The goal of the report is to increase the ambition of cities in the UK and the U.S. to set and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets, to encourage more cities to commit to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) “Race to Zero” in advance of COP26 in Glasgow November 2021, and to promote cross learning and collaboration between U.S. and UK cities. The visioning labs convened a total of 51 stakeholders including representatives of 28 cities.
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Dr. Jacqueline Ashmore is the Executive Director for the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jacqueline is a clean energy and sustainability expert with a decade of experience in technology, business, and policy spheres. Her research now focuses on integrated water management and approaches that support sustainable and affordable water supplies – including consideration of the water utility of the future with a business model focused on efficiency. Previously, Jacqueline was Engineering Program Manager at the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, where she oversaw the development of an innovative residential solar system that can be installed quickly, safely, and at lo
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The Biden administration is boasting progress in acquiring zero-emissions vehicles for the federal fleet, but it is still a long way off from reaching the president s goal to electrify every federal vehicle.
This year, the federal government is on track to triple its procurement of zero-emissions vehicles, the White House announced during Joe Biden’s climate summit last month. Putting the federal government’s progress thus far in context, however, shows it will likely take many years to reach Biden’s goal.
“These things take time. They don’t happen overnight,” said Dorothy Robyn, a senior fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy who worked at the General Services Administration and the Defense Department during the Obama administration.
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What Solar Energy Policies Can Do for Low-Income Households
Apr 23, 2021
Jose Velasquez, left, is instructed by GRID Alternatives roof supervisor, Frank Ross, as they install solar panels on the roof of a home in Richmond, California, on May 22, 2015. GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit that specializes in installing no-cost rooftop solar systems to low-income families.
Photo by Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty Images
The Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is an outspoken activist for climate justice and the founding pastor of New Roots AME Church, a multiracial congregation in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. She wants to give low-income households and diverse populations a genuine stake in the state’s race to build a clean-energy future. Massachusetts solar policy, she told me, “should be targeting the people for whom there is a double benef