Out of the Running?
Report
Out of the Running?
How Germany, Spain, and China Are Seizing the Energy Opportunity and Why the United States Risks Getting Left Behind
The United States must make long-term investments in clean energy development or risk being shut out of a $2.3 trillion industry, this new report has found. The study describes Germany, Spain and China as early winners in the next great technological and industrial revolution because each imposed policies to encourage low-carbon energy development. Japan, Denmark and South Korea, the authors predict, also will profit handsomely as the industry expands. But the United States, lacking domestic clean energy policies, threatens to be left behind.
This report is a cooperation of the Center for American Progress and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
Click here to download the report (47 pages, pdf, 600KB)
Click here for a video with Kate Gordon (Center for American Progress) on the report
Introduction and summary
- A clean-energy call to arms
Germany
- Clean-energy deployment in Germany
- Clean-energy innovation
- Clean-energy manufacturing
- Clean-energy exports and jobs
- Clean-energy policy tools
Spain
- Clean-energy deployment in Spain
- Clean-energy innovation
- Clean-energy manufacturing
- Clean-energy jobs
- Clean-energy policy tools
China
- Clean-energy deployment in China
- Clean-energy innovation
- Clean-energy manufacturing
- Clean-energy exports and jobs
- Clean-energy policy tools
Conclusion: Lessons for the United States