The Breakthrough Blog
Your destination for short, pragmatic commentary on the news of the day as well as our thoughts on wicked problems of all stripes.
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Blog: Plant-Based Meat Prices are Falling. What Does That Mean for Beef and Emissions?
by Saloni Shah & moreAs prices fall for plant-based meats like the Beyond and Impossible Burger, many expect them to replace a large portion of conventional meat consumption and production. Kearney, a… Read more →
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Blog: The True Face of the Anti-Nuclear Movement
In the popular imagination, the central character in the decades-long campaign against nuclear energy is a hippy with a No Nukes sign. This caricature has served both nuclear advocates, who… Read more →
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Blog: Update from the Trenches of COP26 in Glasgow
There is a cold drizzle outside all day in Glasgow, but inside the convention center, the COP26 negotiations are hot and hectic. Political celebrities like Nancy Pelosi and AOC stroll down… Read more →
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Blog: Lessons from NuScale's Design Certification Process
by Adam Stein & moreIn August 2020, NuScale Power reached a significant milestone, becoming one of the first developers to receive a design approval for its small modular reactor (SMR) from the Nuclear… Read more →
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Climate Change is Not Pollution Problem
Last week the Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal to the DC Circuit Court’s rejection of the Trump Administration’s constitutional argument that the US Environmental… Read more →
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Blog: Build Back Better Recognizes Climate Benefits of Agricultural Research
The most recent version of the Build Back Better Act, the result of months of negotiations that are still ongoing, includes $2 billion in new spending for agricultural research, research… Read more →
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Blog: Environmental Justice, the NRC, and Our Future
Between the national importance of expanding American clean energy generation and the national obligation to clean up sites still impacted from prior uranium mining and nuclear weapons… Read more →
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Blog: Is Cultivated Meat a Bad Bet?
It's a risky climate bet, but it's one of many worth taking. Read more →
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Can NRC Reform Itself?
This week, I had the privilege of introducing a webinar that Breakthrough hosted with Third Way entitled Forging Near-Term Pathways for Licensing Advanced Reactors — about the current state… Read more →
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Blog: The New IEA Report Shows How We Are Flattening the Curve of Future Emissions
The new World Energy Outlook 2021 from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows how the world is making progress on clean energy and emissions and provides further evidence that very… Read more →
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Blog: The Road Between the UN Food Systems Summit and COP26
Thursday, September 23rd marked the first day of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) which convened government leaders, producers, civil society, and private sector leaders… Read more →
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Blog: Global Innovation Policy for Alternative Proteins
On September 23, the UN Secretary-General will convene the 6th ever Food System Summit, representing an opportunity to engage countries around the world to advance “game-changing” solutions… Read more →
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Blog: House Ag Committee Includes $7.75B Investment in Ag Research & Infrastructure in Reconciliation Bill
Here’s a breakdown of how the $7.75 billion would be spent. Read more →
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Blog: NGOs Propose Principles for the Responsible Governance of Gene Editing
We lay out how they might start being put into practice. Read more →
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A Little Bit Louder Now
by Alex Trembath & moreBipartisan Infrastructure Deal Embraces Breakthrough’s Quiet Climate Policy Priorities Read more →
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What Ice Can Teach Us About Alternative Meat
I haven’t always been a fan of the idea that history can provide “lessons” for the future. Analogy, as my high school history teacher often thundered, “is not analysis.” But every so often,… Read more →
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Courting Beijing in the Name of Climate is Misguided
This month, a few dozen progressive climate groups again raised strident objections to Congress and the Biden administration’s foreign policy approach towards China. In their letter,… Read more →
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A Response to Ezra Klein on "The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse"
by Ted NordhausBTI's Ted Nordhaus responds to Ezra Klein's "It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn." Read more →
