Climate and Clean Energy
Enable regional and national achievement of Administration 2030/2050 climate and clean energy objectives through scientific, technological, and partnership innovations that build on established LANL capabilities.
Initiatives
- Enhance the capability to forecast at regional scale impacts of the evolving climate to enable science-based civilian and military actions both domestically and globally, particularly at the sub-decadal scale and integrated with weather, infrastructure, disease, and other models. Deploy LANL tools to decision makers.
- Demonstrate leadership, with relevant partners, in the multidisciplinary experimental R&D needed to inform near- and long-term predictions that influences action, as well as provide technical options to support those actions.
- Develop, with relevant partners, utilizing a place-based strategy, innovative technology that can mitigate climate change, address the impacts of climate change, and enable monitoring of international norms and agreements.
- Inform and facilitate implementation of a rapid transformation of the energy system towards less carbon-intensive solutions domestically, which will be paralleled by a transformation of the global energy system.
- Support NNSA in establishing and achieving climate mitigation goals, including using the Laboratory as a testbed for demonstration and deployment efforts.