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With energy costs up and electricity demand climbing, Stanford researchers are leading efforts to make clean power affordable and reliable for all while cutting the emissions that drive climate change. Their work ranges from deep underground heat to solar on farms, renewable fuels, and upgrades for the power grid and batteries.

"Carbon removal is not a science experiment," says Jeff Brown, a managing director at the Accelerator. "We have the technology, and it's achievable and central to meeting our climate goals."

"When you're working with mining companies, you really need to understand where they're coming from, and how your solutions can fit into how they think about the problem," says Albert Chan, a managing director at the Accelerator. 

A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought.

Stanford researchers partnered with neighborhoods hit hard by flooding to understand their experiences and explore potential solutions. When given resources to plan infrastructure, residents consistently chose configurations that would benefit neighbors and shared spaces over maximizing protection for their own properties.

New research traces a direct line from warmer, wetter weather to a mosquito-bornedisease epidemic. The findings could help inform policy and interventions to blunt such outbreaks.

"This research comes at an important time when there is agreement that we need increased cooperation between practitioner and academic communities to unlock the potential for reforestation as a climate solution," said Jeff Brown, a managing director at the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator.