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China is No Green Energy Darling
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China is No Green Energy Darling

China’s energy landscape presents a complex paradox: while Beijing aggressively invests in clean energy technologies—such as solar, wind, and nuclear power—it remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels, particularly coal, and faces significant environmental and human rights challenges. “China Is No Green Energy Darling” critically examines how China’s state-driven, market-disrupting energy strategy seeks to balance these...

Free Economies are Clean Economies 2025
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Free Economies are Clean Economies 2025

As Goes Texas, So Can the World Foreword by Jodey Arrington, U.S. Representative for Texas’ 19th Congressional District The world needs more energy. Whether delivering electricity to a community in Africa for the first time or powering the data center revolution, energy access is essential for human flourishing. While many global politicians and business leaders...

Sending Economic Growth and Emissions in Opposite Directions
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Sending Economic Growth and Emissions in Opposite Directions

Climate policy has been largely driven by two overarching narratives: decoupling vs degrowth. The degrowth mentality is that people consume too much, and restricting economic activity is a necessary means to combat climate change. Degrowth policies will trap people in poverty, restrict access to energy, and purposely constrain levels of prosperity and human well-being. That...

Free Economies Provide Clean Air and Water
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Free Economies Provide Clean Air and Water

Air pollution is one of the highest causes of premature death in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that ambient air pollution and household air pollution cause 6.7 million premature deaths annually.1 More than 2 billion people live in water-stressed countries where the demand for clean water outpaces supply because supplies or infrastructure are...

Innovating and Adapting to a Cleaner Planet
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Innovating and Adapting to a Cleaner Planet

Innovation triggers images of groundbreaking, transformational inventions. The Internet and online access, smartphones, CRISPR, and, most recently, artificial intelligence all come to mind. However, innovations, large and small, make the world a better, cleaner place. Hotels have found efficient ways to recycle water, reducing usage and cost.1 Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) use 90 percent less energy...

More Economic Prosperity and Greater Knowledge Leads to Healthier Environments
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More Economic Prosperity and Greater Knowledge Leads to Healthier Environments

Families have basic needs that must be met. They must put food on the table and keep the house warm in the winter. Many people have the good fortune to take food, shelter, water, clothing, and energy for granted, but the number of people worldwide without thesenecessities remains undesirably high. Many people have the good...

Economic Freedom and Environmental Performance
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Economic Freedom and Environmental Performance

The Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation has published an Index of Economic Freedom for three decades. The Index measures economic freedom by scoring each country in the following categories. Heritage compiles publicly available data from sources such as the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the International Monetary...

Creatively Destroying for a Cleaner Planet
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Creatively Destroying for a Cleaner Planet

I first began driving in 2000. As a directionally challenged adolescent, any drive not to a friend’s house or McDonald’s required directions. Hour-long trips to soccer games with somewhat familiar highways and far less familiar backroads were challenging. I had printed maps in the back pockets of the front seat, but my real saving grace...

Free Economies are Clean Economies
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Free Economies are Clean Economies

The word “abundance” is having a moment right now. In recent years, books, podcasts, and organizations have embraced an abundance movement to improve the planet and the lives of its inhabitants. Across the ideological spectrum, people working in the private sector, government, academia, and journalism are convening to understand that we can get more: more...

Free Economies are Clean Economies
Policy Paper

Free Economies are Clean Economies

Click here to download the full PDF report for print. As Goes Texas, So Can the World Foreword by Jodey Arrington, U.S. Representative for Texas’ 19th Congressional District The world needs more energy. Whether delivering electricity to a community in Africa for the first time or powering the data center revolution, energy access is essential...

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