Scaling Up

This report, a collaboration between the World Resources Institute and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets, analyzes the policy and market structures necessary to deploy low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change. It utilizes a "wedges" framework to examine the interaction between technology, investment, and policy to stabilize global emissions.

• Addressing climate change requires a fundamental transformation of energy production and consumption across power, transport, heating, cooling, and various industrial processes due to the immense scale of the required solutions.
• To achieve sufficient emissions reductions, three specific elements must be integrated into a coherent vision: the technologies and their deployment constraints, the sources and costs of required investment, and the policies that incentivize the provision of technology and capital.
• The report employs a "wedges" framework, originally developed by two Princeton researchers, which breaks down necessary emission reductions into manageable segments, each addressed by a specific technology or set of technologies.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Scaling Up. https://www.wri.org/research/scaling

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Scaling Up. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/scaling.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendscaling, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Scaling Up}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/scaling}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }