Climate Strategy Assessments for the U.S. Electric Power Industry: 2019 Update
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This analysis gives specific guidance for investors and companies to assess climate change-related risks and opportunities in the U.S. electric power sector. The 2019 update incorporates the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) call to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius, finding that nothing short of a complete decarbonization of the sector before 2050 is in order. The update builds off the framework released in 2018 that provided a framework for a well below 2 degree climate scenario analysis