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Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Clif Bar Energy Subsidies

According to a Sustainable Food Trade Association report, Clif Bar’s Cool Commute program (2006) provided employees with a $6,500 taxable cash incentive to use toward the purchase of a high-mileage hy...

Resource Low-Carbon Industrial Processes

Sustainable Steel Principles

In September 2022, six top lenders to the global steel sector — Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, ING, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered and UniCredit — announced the signing of the Sustainable STEEL Prin...

Example Financial Incentives for Installation of Distributed Energy ResourcesCommunity Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

Maine’s Distributed Generation Procurement Program

Maine’s P.L. 2019 c. 478 and Chapter 312 of the PUC rules require the PUC to undertake a series of procurements of DG projects to meet statutory targets for distributed renewable projects. Customers m...

Resource Energy Rating Systems for New Homes

HERS Index

RESNET’s Home Energy Rating System index is an industry standard by which a home’s energy efficiency is measured. It is nationally recognized for inspecting and calculating a home’s energy performance...

Resource Energy Rating Systems for New Homes

Green Building Alliance

The Green Building Alliance catalogs a variety of Green Building Certifications, Rating Systems, and Labels, including Energy STAR, LEED, Living Building, WELL Building, Passive House, Net Zero Energy...

Example Equitable Access to Renewables

DoubleGreen Solar Loan Program

The DoubleGreen Solar Loan is designed to serve households regularly marginalized by existing financing options by offering lower interest rates, longer loan lengths, transparent terms, and more flexi...

Resource Green Leases

Model Performance-Based Lease Template

Under a traditional lease arrangement, energy efficiency may not be addressed, and one party—often, the landlord—may carry the burden of investing in efficiency while the other party benefits from the...

Example Prizes and Competitions To Encourage Innovation

Virgin Earth Challenge

The Virgin Earth Challenge, offered by billionaire Richard Branson, was a $25 million prize for the development of a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospher...

Example Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

Clean Shipping Index

The Clean Shipping Index is an independent labelling system of vessels’ environmental performance, providing a practical tool for differentiating port- and fairway fees or choosing more sustainable sh...

Resource Gas Quality Standards

ABC RNG Purity Recommendation

Renewable natural gas producers represented by the American Biogas Council have argued that there is not a justification for applying different quality standards to natural and renewable gas, and ther...

Resource Customer Behavior Strategies

Report, Guidance for Utilities Commissions on Time of Use Rates

A team of consumer and clean energy advocates authored a 2017 paper, Guidance for Utilities Commissions on Time of Use Rates, making recommendations on developing policy goals, program design, impleme...

Resource Low Carbon Gas Technical Potential

Report, Making Your Organization Carbon Neutral with Renewable Natural Gas

Ameresco’s 2019 white paper offers the private sector insights on RNG suppliers, procurement options, and contracting models.

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Report, Stranded Assets: A Climate Risk Challenge

The Inter-American Development Bank released a 2016 report, Stranded Assets: A Climate Risk Challenge, which offered best practices for managing investments with environmental risks, conducting risk a...

Resource Voluntary Aviation Industry Initiatives

Oneworld Initiative

Oneworld member airlines have committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, becoming the first global airline alliance to unite behind a common target to achieve carbon neutrality. The alliance’s 13...

Example Reducing Fluorinated Gases through Purchasing Policies

George Washington University Climate Action Plan

As part of its Climate Action Plan, GWU pledged that, as refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in all of its facilities are replaced over time, all new systems must use refrigerants with lower gl...

Example Tracking and Certifying Sustainable Forests

Forest Stewardship Council Certification

The Forest Stewardship Council is an international forest certification entity. It has certified more than 35 million acres of land in the US, including private, state, and federal forests.

Example Energy Rating Systems for New Homes

LEED for Homes

The LEED for Homes program is a private standard and certification system that verifies the energy efficiency of a property and estimates cost savings for potential homebuyers.

Resource Private Sector Contributions to Energy Efficiency

Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability

The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability is a resource to guide corporations toward corporate sustainability leadership. A high level summary of the roadmap’s targets is provided here.

Resource Corporate Incentives and BehaviorStranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Model Green Investment Obligations Clause

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model amendment to standard non leveraged investme...

Resource PACE Financing

Renew Financial

Renew Financial administers CaliforniaFIRST, which provides affordable financing for home upgrades to more than 27 million Californians. CaliforniaFIRST has funded millions of dollars worth of project...

Example Voluntary Methane Reductions

XTO Energy Methane Emissions Initiative

ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy recently expanded its methane emissions reduction initiative, which includes phasing out high-bleed pneumatic devices, leak detection and repair, a training program, i...

Resource CCS R&D

Carbon Capture Coalition FY 2020 CCS R&D Request

The Carbon Capture Coalition has lobbied federal appropriators on support for CCS research in the FY 2019 and FY 2020 budgets, calling for a $10M increase, to $208M, in DOE’s Fossil Energy’s Carbon Ca...

Resource Inspection and Maintenance Requirements for HDVs

Texas A&M Study on Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions Measurement

In 2012, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute conducted a pilot study assessing the applicability of the On-Road Heavy-Duty Emissions Measurement System (OHMS) to a potential heavy-duty diesel I/M p...

Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Off4Firms report, Accelerating CO2-Emission Reductions via Corporate Programmes

Off4Firms report, Accelerating CO2-Emission Reductions via Corporate Programmes, provides an intensive study of the efficacy of the COYou2 Program offered by the company Swiss Re (providing funding fo...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Report, Reporting for a Secure Climate: A model disclosure for upstream oil and gas

The Carbon Tracker Initiative has prepared a 2019 report on model disclosures for upstream oil and gas, noting that current accounting and disclosure practices offer investors little visibility over t...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Net Zero Target Supply Chain Cascade Clauses

Many businesses and organisations are publicly announcing targets to be net zero by a particular date, not just in their own operations, but including emissions upstream in their supply chains and dow...

Resource Private Sector Contributions to Energy Efficiency

NRDC Report, America’s Data Centers Are Wasting Huge Amounts of Energy

NRDC has written an issue brief advising on best practices for reducing emissions from data centers.

Resource CCS Technical and Economic Potential

Report, Application of Advanced Technologies for CO2 Capture from Industrial Sources

Romano et al.’s 2013 report investigates the potential of new CO2 technologies in the application on the major industrial emitters.

Resource Reports on Design Principles from Behavioral Science

ACEEE report, Mobilizing Energy Efficiency in the Manufactured Housing Sector

A 2012 ACEEE report, Mobilizing Energy Efficiency in the Manufactured Housing Sector, estimated that a typical manufactured home could achieve net savings of $279 per year if all buyers took advantage...

Example Utility Behavioral Efficiency Programs

OPOWER programs

OPOWER is a popular technological platform, purchased in 2016 by Oracle, for helping residential customers monitor and reduce their energy usage. They have been selected as the platform of choice in n...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesTraining and Terms for Builders

Energy Efficiency Model Clauses for Design and Build Contracts

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published model clauses for Design and Build Contracts to make...

Resource Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

Poseidon Principles

The Poseidon Principles establish a global framework for assessing and disclosing the climate alignment of ship finance portfolios through four main principles: assessment, accountability, enforcement...

Resource Energy Rating Systems for New Homes

Green MLS

The Green MLS Tool Kit is an effort to define fields that help home buyers using the Multiple Listings Service quickly find green homes, make it easy to fully promote the special features of a green h...

Resource Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Report, Task Force on Biofuels Infrastructure

A 2009 report from the National Commission on Energy Policy surveyed current biofuels transportation infrastructure and proposed a phased approach to biofuels infrastructure expansion.

Resource Customer Behavior Strategies

Report, The Adoption of New Smart Grid Technologies

The Rand Corporation’s 2015 report, The Adoption of New Smart-Grid Technologies, includes case studies of policy successes as well as a chapter on policy levers that jurisdictions can use to advance t...

Example Divesting from Fossil FuelsStranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Climate Action 100+

Climate Action 100+ is an investor initiative to pressure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. The companies targeted by this initiative inclu...

Resource Reports on Advancing Decarbonization Technologies

Goldman Sachs report, The Low Carbon Economy

Goldman Sachs report, The Low Carbon Economy: Technology in the Driver’s Seat, argues that LEDs, solar PV, onshore wind and electric vehicles will maintain momentum and are now as much a transformativ...

Resource Requiring Building Retrofits

Report, The Impact of Fossil Fuels in Buildings

The Rocky Mountain Institute’s 2019 report, The Impact of Fossil Fuels in Buildings, offers a crash course in direct building emissions, showing where they come from and how they fit into the overall ...

Example Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

Maersk’s Zero Carbon Efforts

Maersk, which operates the world’s largest fleet of container ships, set itself a goal of reducing emissions by 60% by 2020 over a 2007 baseline. In 2018, they extended that goal to zero net operation...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Report, Prospects for Gas Pipelines in the Era of Clean Energy

Rocky Mountain Institute published a 2019 report that found that, by 2035, over 90 percent of currently proposed combined-cycle gas plants, if built, would be uneconomic to run compared to the cost of...

Resource Green Bonds

The Climate Bonds Initiative and Market Reports

The Climate Bonds Initiative is an international investor-focused not-for profit working to mobilize the bond market for climate change solutions. They promote investment in projects and assets necess...

Resource Smart Meters

ACEEE report: Behavior Change Programs

ACEEE’s 2016 report, Behavior Change Programs: Status and Impact surveyed different types of behavior change programs, including the deployment of smart meters and other technologies designed to give ...

Resource Green Bonds

International Carbon Markets Association: Green Bond Principles

The International Carbon Markets Association’s Green Bond Principles promote integrity in the Green Bond market through guidelines that recommend transparency, disclosure and reporting. They are inten...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Report, Implementing TCFD: Strategies for Enhancing Disclosure

C2ES hosted two workshops in 2019 on improving climate-related financial disclosures consistent with the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This br...

Resource Preservation of Forests and Carbon Sinks

ConservationTools.org (Pennsylvania Land Trust Association)

The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association publishes guides on topics including transferrable development rights and conservation easements, as well as model documents, maps and GIS, and lists of regiona...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

PRI’s Climate Disclosure Guidance

The Principles for Responsible Investment is an investor initiative that provides guidance on assessing environmental and climate related risks. They have authored a technical guide on applying the Ta...

Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Best Workplaces for Commuters

Best Workplaces for Commuters is a membership program that provides qualified employers with national recognition and an elite designation for offering outstanding commuter benefits. Employers and dev...

Resource Private Sector Contributions to Energy Efficiency

ISO Standard 50001:2018

ISO Standard 50001:2018 provides a framework for businesses to improve the energy efficiency of their operations through steps including establishing baselines, adopting performance indicators, target...

Resource CCS Technical and Economic Potential

Report, The Cost of Carbon Capture

Rubin et al.’s 2015 report in the Journal for Greenhouse Gas Control assesses the current costs of CCS in new fossil fuel plants. It shows that while the capital requirements for installing carbon cap...

Resource Community Choice Aggregation

Clean Power Exchange

CPX serves as a California-focused hub of information, resources, and conversation for communities interested in or considering a Community Choice Energy program, and those already serving customers.

Resource Building Energy Audits

ACEEE report, After the Audit

ACEEE published a 2019 report, After the Audit: Improving Residential Energy Efficiency Assessment Reports, which surveyed over 600 customers who received home energy assessments to see how they respo...

Resource Community Choice Aggregation

LEAN Energy US

The Local Energy Aggregation Network is a broad network of CCA and energy market experts dedicated to the accelerated expansion and competitive success of clean energy CCA nationwide. They work in par...

Resource Community Choice Aggregation

CAL-CCA

The California Community Choice Association is an organization that a represents the interests of California’s community choice electricity providers in the legislature and at state regulatory agencie...

Resource Gas Quality Standards

Utility RNG Quality Standards

Biogas World notes that several gas utilities in the USA have RNG programs and their own requirements for the quality of RNG injected into their grid. A table summarizes critical parameters of RNG/bio...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesUsing Government Procurement to Support InnovationEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Green Supplier Agreement Terms

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model green procurement checklist and clause to ma...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative

The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative is an international group of asset managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts ...

Resource Tracking and Certifying Sustainable Forests

Report, Forest Certification in North America

Hansen et al.’s 2006 report surveys the technical challenges to and opportunities from developing forest certification systems. It includes a list of major third-party forest and wood product certific...

Resource Gas Quality Standards

RNG Interconnect Guidance Document

The Northeast Gas Association prepared a 2019 RNG Interconnect Guidance Document, which aims to provide the technical framework and guidance necessary for the introduction of RNG into the natural gas ...

Resource Corporate Incentives and Behavior

Model Paris-Compliant Objects Clause for Company’s Articles of Association

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model draft objects or general-purpose clause for ...

Resource Reports on Materials Consumption and Solid Waste Generally

Report, Achieving a Circular Economy

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2015 report, Achieving a Circular Economy: How the Private Sector is Reimagining the Future of Business, surveys companies making investments in circular econ...

Resource Financing Deep Retrofits

RMI Report, The Economics of Electrifying Buildings: Medium-Size Commercial Retrofits

Commercial buildings generate about 16 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions in the United States and about half of the total emissions from the building sector. Furthermore, direct fossil fuel comb...

Example Biofuel Research and Development

Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation

AzCATI offers innovative research, education and collaboration opportunities that collectively help to advance algae technology platforms, including biofuel research. Since its inception in 2010, AzCA...

Resource Corporate Incentives and Behavior

Model Board Minutes Drafting

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model drafting format for board minutes that calls...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures

The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures published a 2017 report providing guidance to organizations in how to assess climate-related risks and opportunities, and develop climate-relate...

Example Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

Clean Cargo Working Group

The Clean Cargo Working Group is a voluntary initiative of major brands, cargo carriers, and freight forwarders dedicated to reducing the environmental impacts of global goods transportation. Its memb...

Example Food Waste and Composting Materials

Full Harvest

Full Harvest has created an online platform for farmers to sell their ugly and surplus food directly to businesses that don’t care what the produce looks like because they process it. Businesses like ...

Resource Green Contracting Practices

Model Clause on Public Contractors Facilitating Environmental Volunteer Opportunities

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a a model clause for contracts that would require th...

Example Protecting Traditional Uses of Nonpowered Dams

Low Impact Hydropower Institute

The Low Impact Hydropower Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower projects that have committ...

Resource Sectoral Emissions Controls: Primary MetalsReports on Industrial Efficiency Generally

Report, Cold Steel Hot Climate

This report lays out the case for transitioning the steel industry (particularly Nucor, the company responsible for 29% of US steel production) towards using renewable energy in the production of stee...

Resource Existing CCS Projects

MIT CC&ST Project and CCUS Center

The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT conducted research into technologies to capture, utilize, and store CO2 from large stationary sources from 2000 through 2016. The CC&ST...

Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Report, Employee Engagement Best-Practices for Energy Efficiency

Quaking Aspen LLC’s report, Employee Engagement Best-Practices for Energy Efficiency, summarizes the efforts undertaken by a variety of private employers to encourage their employees to adopt more ene...

Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Home energy use software

Some employers have reported granting employees access to software that tracks their home energy use, including WSP, WeSpire, and Green Impact.

Resource Smart Meters

Report, Adoption of New Smart-Grid Technologies

The Rand Corporation’s 2015 report, The Adoption of New Smart-Grid Technologies, includes case studies of policy successes as well as a chapter on policy levers that jurisdictions can use to advance t...

Resource Green Bonds

Barclays report, Sustainable Investing and Bond Returns

Barclays report, Sustainable Investing and Bond Returns, studies the impact of environmental, social and corporate governance investing on credit portfolio performance.

Example Using EVs as a Grid Resource

Tesla Aggregates into PG&E’s Emergency Demand Response Program

In June 2022, Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric launched a program to aggregate the storage in ratepayers’ Tesla Powerwalls to provide emergency power to California’s grid when intense heat drives up d...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesUsing Government Procurement to Support InnovationEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Termination for Greener Supplier Clause

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model standard clause in merchant-customer contrac...

Resource Expanding CO2 Pipelines

Report, Technical and Economic Characteristic of a CO2 Transmission Pipeline Infrastructure

Serpa et al.’s 2011 report identifies the technical elements that comprise a CO2 pipeline network, provides an overview of equipment selection and design, and identifies the costs of designing and con...

Resource Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies

Duke’s employee EE pilot incentive

Duke University conducted an energy efficiency pilot program aimed to help Duke employees complete energy efficiency home retrofits and track reductions in energy use and carbon emissions. The Environ...

Example Zero Emission Vehicles

General Motors 2035 ZEV Goal

In January 2021, General Motors announced plans to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global products and operations. As part of that pledge, GM aspires to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-du...

Resource Green Contracting Practices

Model Employment Clause on Climate Sabbaticals

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model clause establishing “garden leave” and “clim...

Resource Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Report, Biofuels Infrastructure in the United States

Ruscoe’s 2012 paper for the OECD surveys existing ethanol refineries, the rail lines that deliver their product to market, and infrastructure challenges facing expanded biofuel production, including t...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Carbon Contract Clause for Environmental Performance

If a breach of contract causes or contributes to the customer to miss its GHG targets, this has negative climate impacts and may be hard to quantify and evidence the loss caused to the injured party i...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesUsing Government Procurement to Support InnovationEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Green Termination Provision

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model standard clause in merchant-customer contrac...

Resource Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

Report, The Promise and Limits of Private Standards in Reducing GHG Emissions from Shipping

This 2017 article in the Journal of Environmental Law examines private standards that aim to mitigate GHG emissions in shipping. These have emerged against a backdrop of regulatory inertia and the exc...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Report, Agroforestry Strategies to Sequester Carbon in Temperate North America

Report, Agroforestry Strategies to Sequester Carbon in Temperate North America. Udawatta and Jose’s 2012 report provides a review of carbon sequestration opportunities available under various agrofore...

Resource Community Ownership StructuresShared RenewablesCommunity Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

ELPC handbook on Community Wind Financing

The Environmental Law and Policy Center has prepared a handbook on Community Wind Financing, guiding project champions and developers through best practices on financing community wind projects, inclu...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Environmental Warranties in Undertaking/Sponsor Agreements

Warranties and undertakings in underwriting and sponsor agreements are not required to go into significant and granular detail as regards an applicant/issuer’s environmental position and climate chang...

Resource Expanding Vehicle Charging and Refueling Infrastructure

Transportation Electrification Accord

The Transportation Electrification Accord was crafted by NGOs and has now been signed by 50+ vehicle manufacturers, electric utilities, EV infrastructure and technology companies, consumer advocates a...

Resource Financing Deep Retrofits

Report, Beyond Guaranteed Savings

In a 2013 report, Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that ESPCs commonly underestimate the amount of savings that actually accrues to site owners due to deep energy efficiency retrofits. This is du...

Resource CCS Technical and Economic Potential

Report, Overview of Carbon Capture Technology: Microalgal Biorefinery Concept and State-of-the-Art

Singh and Dhar’s 2019 report provides a brief yet comprehensive review of the present carbon sequestration and utilization technologies, focusing primarily on biological CO2 capture by microalgae in t...

Resource Social Policies to Facilitate a Just Carbon Transition

Just Transition Fund

The Just Transition Fund is dedicated to creating economic opportunity for the frontline communities and workers hardest hit by the transition away from coal. They provide both grants and technical as...

Resource Increasing biofuel usage

ACRP’s Alternative Fuels Handbook

The Airport Cooperative Research Program’s Handbook for Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Alternative Aviation Turbine Engine Fuels at Airports (2011) provides an analytical model that airport opera...

Resource Loan Securitizations

MIT Report, Solar Securitization

A 2016 MIT report, Solar Securitization: An Innovation in Clean Energy Finance, reviews the U.S. residential solar market, examines the mechanics of solar securitization, explores the potential tradeo...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Report, Creek Carbon: Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Riparian Revegetation

A 2015 Univ. of California Cooperative Extension report documents carbon sequestration across riparian revegetation projects in California, and attempts to account for the recalcitrance of sequestered...

Example Biofuel Research and Development

Exxon Mobil Advanced Biofuels Research Program

Exxon Mobil declares that it is investing “hundreds of millions” of dollars into algal biofuel research, noting that algal biofuels may have about 50 percent lower life cycle greenhouse gas emissions ...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Carbon Cycle Institute

The Carbon Cycle Institute houses a series of resources on carbon farming techniques, including research on carbon farming techniques and case studies of specific carbon farms.

Resource Green Contracting PracticesUsing Government Procurement to Support InnovationEnvironmental Contracting Practices

Model Clause on Supplier Environmental Threshold Obligations

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model clause setting legally enforceable environme...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Report, Tillage and Soil Carbon Concentration: What Do We Really Know?

Baker et al.’s 2007 report surveys studies of agricultural carbon sequestration resulting from one of the most well-publicized sustainable practices: no-till farming. It finds, when surveying studies ...

Example Community Choice Aggregation

Marin Energy Authority’s establishing documents

In furtherance of establishing community choice aggregation, the Marin Energy Authority executed a Joint Powers Agreement among a number of localities. The full text is available as a model. It has al...

Resource CCS Technical and Economic Potential

Integrated Environmental Control Model

Carnegie Mellon University’s Integrated Environmental Control Model is a free, public, power plant modeling tool that provides systematic estimates of the performance, fuel consumption, emissions, and...

Resource Expanding CO2 Pipelines

Report, An Engineering-Economic Model of Pipeline Transport of CO2 with Application to Carbon Capture and Storage

McCoy and Rubin’s 2008 report estimates total cost and the cost per ton of transporting varying amounts of CO2 over a range of distances for different regions of the continental United States. An engi...

Resource Existing CCS Projects

Global CCS Institute reports and database

The Global CCS Institute is an international think tank whose mission is to accelerate the deployment of CCS. The Global CCS Institute Project Database tracks 51 large-scale CCS facilities globally – ...

Resource Green Leases

Vanderbilt report, Employee Energy Benefits

Vanderbilt’s 2017 report, Employee Energy Benefits: What Are They and What Effects Do They Have on Employees?, reports on an exploratory study to address why firms are offering these benefits, includi...

Resource Reports on Design Principles from Behavioral Science

Individual Behavior, the Social Sciences, and Climate Change

Vandenbergh and Sovacool’s 2016 article analyzed the complex influences on individual behavior and the challenges of designing and implementing large scale, effective interventions for reducing energy...

Example Voluntary Methane Reductions

Consumers Energy Methane Reduction Plan

Consumers Energy, in Michigan, created a voluntary methane reduction plan in 2019, which aims to reduce the company’s methane emissions 80% by accelerating the replacement of aging pipe, rehabilitatin...

Example Voluntary Aviation Industry Initiatives

Airlines for America Climate Pledge

Airlines for America, the trade group representing all of the major U.S. airlines along with cargo giants UPS and FedEx, announced in March 2021 that its members are committing to achieving net-zero c...

Resource Investments to Extend Nuclear Plant Life

EPRI Nuclear Power Action Plan

EPRI conducts a variety of programs studying technical best practices relating the management of aging nuclear equipment, including boiling water reactor vessels, corrosion, materials reliability, ste...

Resource Community Ownership StructuresShared RenewablesCommunity Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

Coalition for Community Solar Access

The Coalition for Community Solar Access is a national coalition of businesses and non-profits working to expand community solar. They work with customers, utilities, local stakeholders, and policymak...

Resource Community Ownership StructuresShared RenewablesCommunity Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

Windustry and Midwest Wind Energy Center

Windustry is a nonprofit organization working to advance community wind projects across the Midwest, developing information and tools for evaluating wind energy easement contracts, landowner options, ...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Technical Working Group on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Reports

The Technical Working Group on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases published a 2011 report, Assessing Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities and Implementation Strategies for Agricultural Land Management i...

Resource Loan Securitizations

NREL report, The Potential of Securitization in Solar PV Finance

A 2013 National Renewable Energy Labs report, The Potential of Securitization in Solar PV Finance, offers a high-level analysis of the immediate potential that securitization and access to the capital...

Example Green Banks and Related SFOs

Florida’s Solar and Energy Loan Fund

Florida’s Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) is a certified Community Development Financial Institution and a national non-profit, 501(c) (3) corporation. SELF provides microloans for residents who oth...

Example Tracking and Certifying Sustainable Forests

Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certification

The SFI has certified 250 million acres of forest in the US and Canada, and recognizes the importance of forests in carbon capture and climate change mitigation. Their Standards and Rules impose no sp...

Resource Community Ownership StructuresShared RenewablesCommunity Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

Grid Alternatives

Grid Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that brings together community partners, volunteers, and job-trainees to install solar power and energy efficiency improvements for low income families. T...

Example Voluntary Methane Reductions

The Environmental Partnership

API’s voluntary methane reduction program comprised of companies in the U.S. oil and natural gas industry committed to reducing methane emissions from their operations.

Resource Reports on Design Principles from Behavioral Science

Environment and Climate Change: Key Lessons for Implementing the Behavioral Wedge

Carrico’s 2011 paper seeks to provide an accessible, brief summary for policymakers of the key findings of behavioral and social science studies on household energy behavior.

Resource Requiring Building Retrofits

RMI Deep Retrofit Tools for Developers and Property Owners

The Rocky Mountain Institute catalogs tools and resources for developers and property owners to project techniques and savings related to deep energy retrofits, including energy software tools, financ...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesRequiring Energy Audits and Benchmarking

Model Climate Clause for Title Reports

Standard Title Reports for the acquisition of property do not include statements relating to the future risks of climate change that may affect the property. The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative...

Resource Green Contracting PracticesPromoting Alternatives to Car Transport

Model Environmental Business Charter for Law Firms

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model environmental business charter for law firms...

Resource Zero Net Energy Buildings

American Institute of Architects 2030 Commitment

The American Institute of Architects 2030 Commitment provides a national framework to evaluate design options to support net zero energy. The confidential Design data Exchange system lets architects p...

Resource Gas Quality Standards

Green-e RNG standards

Green-e has embarked upon a process to create a new Green-e standard and certification program for renewable gas products and associated environmental attributes. Publication is expected in mid-2020.

Example Equitable Access to Renewables

Resonant Energy’s Solar Equity Platform

A Massachusetts renewable energy company hopes to help low-income consumers nationwide access the financial benefits of clean energy with a new platform that allows homeowners to share excess solar cr...

Resource Requiring Building Retrofits

ASHRAE Advanced Design Guide Series

The ASHRAE Advanced Design Guide series offers contractors and designers tools, including recommendations for practical products and off-the-shelf technology, for achieving a 30% energy savings compar...

Resource Material Efficiency

Report, Zero Carbon Manufacturing Facility

Ball et al.’s 2009 report, Zero Carbon Manufacturing Facility – towards integrating material, energy and waste process flows, explores the challenges faced when attempting to design a zero carbon manu...

Resource Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures

GRI Disclosure Standards

GRI is an independent international organization, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. GRI’s core product are the Sustainability Reporting Standards which are made available as a free public good. The...

Example Urban Reforestation

Cambium Carbon’s Reforestation Hubs

In January 2021, Cambium Carbon, an urban reforestation startup, chose four target cities in hopes to make them look greener in years to come. Pittsburgh; New York City; Denver; and Eugene, Ore., will...

Resource Financing Deep Retrofits

National Association of Energy Service Companies

The National Association of Energy Service Companies leads the energy services industry in promoting, developing, and advocating for the central role of energy efficiency as part of a comprehensive na...

Resource Resources and Reports on Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential and Carbon Farming Generally

Report, Carbon Sequestration Potential on Agricultural Lands: A Review of Current Science and Available Practices

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s 2015 report explores how soil carbon is sequestered, the state of soil carbon research, and the debate on the extent of its potential. It offers a set ...

Resource Investments to Extend Nuclear Plant Life

Delivering the Nuclear Promise Initiative

The Nuclear Energy Institute is engaged in a multiyear strategy to transform the industry, called Delivering the Nuclear Promise, which highlights industry efforts to deliver substantial cost reductio...

Example Funding Innovation in Low Emission Light Vehicles

EV & Battery Challenge

The EV & Battery Challenge is a private competition, launched in June 2020, to find startups working on battery and electric vehicle technology, funded by Kia, Hyundai, and LG Chem. The startups will ...

Model Law Building Necessary Infrastructure to Support Clean HDVs

LPDD Best Practices: Hydrogen Fueling Station Siting, Permitting, and Construction

This best practices guide addresses how to overcome economic barriers to hydrogen fueling stations, and avoid time-consuming pitfalls in the siting, permitting, and construction processes.

Resource Green BanksGreen Banks and Related SFOs

Coalition for Green Capital

The Coalition for Green Capital is a 501c3 non-profit, and a leading expert and implementer of Green Banks, with a decade of work around the world that has led to over $2 billion of clean energy inves...

Resource CCS Technical and Economic Potential

Report, An Overview of Current Status of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies

Leung, Caramanna, and Maroto-Valer’s 2014 report reviews various aspects of CCS including the state-of-the-art technologies for CO2 capture, separation, transport, storage, leakage, monitoring, and li...

Example Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

St. Louis AirWatch Project

A St. Louis Community-based Air Quality Monitoring Program, Air Watch St. Louis, aims to equitably, scientifically, and strategically site air quality monitors at identified congregations throughout S...

Resource Low Carbon Gas Technical Potential

Renewable Natural Gas Coalition

The Renewable Natural Gas Coalition is a non-profit organization composed of RNG industry members dedicated to the sustainable advancement of RNG or biogas-derived biomethane as an alternative and dom...

Resource Sectoral Emissions Controls: Pulp and Paper

Report, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Competitiveness

The World Resources Institute report, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Competitiveness: The Case of Midwest Pulp and Paper Mills, offers case studies to the point that energy efficiency serves as a de...

Resource Reports on Design Principles from Behavioral Science

Opportunities and Insights for Reducing Fossil Fuel Consumption by Households and Organizations

Stern’s 2016 article discusses opportunities for change in households and organizations, and identifies opportunities that have been underused in much of energy policy. The paper suggests design princ...

Resource Loan Securitizations

The Solar Access to Public Capital’s Mock Securitization Project

The Solar Access to Public Capital’s Mock Securitization Project sought to model how rating agencies would need to evaluate a proposed asset-backed security transaction. The process provided valuable ...