Restructuring Innovation for the Zero-Carbon Climate: Blueprint for an Innovation Technology Framework

In this report, Clean Air Task Force takes a fresh look at the new institutions, policies, and strategies – the Innovation Technology Framework – that we must construct if we hope to provide affordable, carbon-free energy at a scale equal to the climate challenge. Unlike analyses riveted to research and development (R&D), we examine the entire process through which new energy technologies achieve widespread use – from idea and R&D, through prototype and demonstration, to full-scale deployment culminating in market take-off. We do so for a simple reason: each new zero-carbon technology reaching the take-off point becomes another real-world clean energy option available to mitigate climate destabilization.