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Financing Building Decarbonization
RMI conducted a bottom-up carbon analysis of the US building stock to determine the relative operational emissions for each segment.
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Unlocking Coal Contracts
A study on policy and financing strategies to affordably decarbonize coal power purchase agreements, focused on Indonesia but applicable globally.
Finance
Metrics and Mechanisms to Finance a Managed Coal Phaseout
RMI's new reports detail the opportunities and tools available for private finance to proactively participate in the managed phaseout of coal power plants.
Finance
Getting Down to Business: Enabling Action and Enhancing Credibility in Net-Zero Banking Using a Portfolio-Led Approach
How banks can use a Portfolio-Led Approach to assess how sectors, geographies, asset classes, and business units can be harnessed to achieve climate goals.
Finance
Zeroing In
These key findings and recommendations from climate-alignment workshops can help US financial institutions make and implement net-zero commitments.
Finance
State of Green Banks 2020
Around the world, a growing number of countries are exploring green banks—financial institutions or facilities dedicated to accelerating the shift to a sustainable economy. State of Green Banks 2020 is the first aggregation and analysis…
Finance
Recasting the Golden Key
Public finance is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal to accelerate global progress toward net-zero economies, yet far too little has been done to optimize its ability to drive decarbonization. Both public…
Finance
Breaking the Code
The debate over whether private financial institutions should play a proactive role in the low-carbon transition is coming to a close, and significant efforts to define what this role should be in practice have begun.…
Finance
How To Retire Early
As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, new analysis reveals that coal is no longer the cheapest way to power the global economy. The cost of clean energy has fallen so far that new…
Finance
Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance
By the end of 2019, financial institutions representing $17.2 trillion had committed to align their investment portfolios with the decarbonization goals of the Paris Agreement. The scale of ambition is exciting, but the question remains:…