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Shielding and expanding Mission Innovation

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In its next phase, Mission Innovation plans to further develop multinational collaborations that include a variety of entities. This may require new governance structures to shield the new collaborations from increasingly protectionist domestic politics while incorporating renewed concerns about climate change and energy security.

It is against this changed geopolitical setting that the 22 countries and the European Union that make up the multinational energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) initiative that is Mission Innovation (MI), must adjust its objectives and operational priorities while pursuing their main charge of innovating in low-carbon technologies. This year, MI aims to implement large scale, multinational demonstration projects. Sadly, governments are now likely to have to work twice as hard to maintain momentum amidst the geopolitical tumult and distraction.

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