From Poverty to Power in Pembroke

In Illinois, a rural Black farming community shows that energy efficiency and electrification of appliances can lead to economic justice, without the need for more fossil fuel infrastructure. The program behind this success offers a template for other states to follow.

Fighting for a Just Transition for Coal Communities

Jeremy Richardson’s heart lies with the coal communities where he was raised. As a manager at RMI, he’s working hard to ensure they benefit from the energy transition.

RMI Manager Jeremy Richardson, from a third-generation coal mining family, is working to ensure coal communities benefit from the energy transition.

Build Mixed-Income Housing in Wealthy Urban Neighborhoods

Changing our zoning laws to allow mixed-income housing in higher-income, urban or walkable neighborhoods can improve climate and equity.

The United States is emerging from the acute health and economic crises wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic to a longstanding housing shortage that is only worsening. The compounding harms of this nationwide crisis range from cost burden and inadequate housing to displacement and homelessness. Estimates of the…

Simple Tax Changes Can Unleash Clean Energy Deployment

According to the latest US government inventory, solar will account for 39 percent of the electric generation capacity added in 2021, and wind will constitute a further 31 percent. With current technology costs and policy incentives, renewables are now unquestionably the cheapest generation assets to build and operate.

EV Charging For All

How Electrifying Ridehailing Can Spur Investment in a More Equitable EV Charging Network

Electrifying vehicles in ridehailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, is critical to accelerating the EV transition, creating a profitable investment opportunity for building fast-charging infrastructure, and equitably expanding EV charging capacity for all.

Putting Equity Front and Center of Climate Change Solutions

As organizations around the world work toward keeping temperature rise to 1.5°C, we are faced with the challenge of ensuring that clean energy strategies benefit all. That is why it is crucial that any work to combat climate change and move the energy transition forward keep equity front and center.

Productive Uses of Energy in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, the productive use of electricity will be key to achieve national targets of universal electrification. This study identifies opportunities to electrify agricultural productive uses in Ethiopia and explores prevalent activities, community practices, and economic returns that indicate the potential benefits for rural communities.

An Equitable, Low-Carbon Way to End Global Energy Poverty

Today, a third of the world’s population still has unreliable power, or no access to electricity at all. As economies seek to recover from the prolonged impacts of COVID-19, distributed renewable energy offers an opportunity to reach the underserved and to power development.

Six Innovative Funding Methods to Achieve Climate Action and Equity in US Cities

Climate change and pollution disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, Latino, and low-income communities. As cities increasingly recognize that climate action can deliver multiple benefits, they are finding innovative funding methods to simultaneously address inequity and climate.

Pathways to Equity and Savings for Low-Income Households

How tax incentives and updated standards are changing home construction.

How tax incentives and updated standards are changing home construction.

Ensuring an Inclusive Clean Energy Transition

A Two-Part Series on Supporting Coal Workers and Communities

RMI’s recovery and revitalization framework aims to ensure that the shift to clean energy uplifts coal communities and workers.

Invest in People to Reap the Benefits of the Energy Transition

Innovative financing will be essential to ensure the shift from coal to clean energy provides a just transition for workers and communities.

Innovative financing will be essential to ensure the shift from coal to clean energy provides a just transition for workers and communities.

Narrowing the Solar Equity Gap through Solarize

How cities are helping low- and moderate-income households install solar with Solarize campaigns

Cities are helping low- and moderate-income households install solar with Solarize campaigns.

Plotting a Cleaner Course for Southeast Asia’s Energy and Economies

Wini Rizkiningayu, the new principal of RMI’s Southeast Asia program, maps out a vision to decarbonize a region that’s home to over 680 million people and many of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Wini Rizkiningayu, the new principal of RMI’s Southeast Asia program, maps out a vision to decarbonize a region that’s home to over 680 million people and many of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Women Making Change

As Women’s History Month kicks off, meet some of the RMI women who are working for a clean, sustainable future.

To kick off Women’s History Month, we’d like to introduce you to some of the RMI women who are working for a clean sustainable future.

Closing the Gender Gap in the Climate Change Space

For International Women’s Day, we highlight some of RMI’s efforts to address gender issues in our work.

We Need More Women in Science and Leadership

We need more women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to accelerate an equitable energy transition.

We need more women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to accelerate the energy transition.

Stop Burning Money

Turning a fossil fuel electricity subsidy into solar energy in the Dominican Republic.

How to turn a fossil fuel electricity subsidy into solar energy in the Dominican Republic and beyond.

“We are Abaco Strong” — The Bahamas Inspiring Resilience at Scale

Solar and storage solutions are changing lives in the Caribbean nation.

Solar and storage solutions are changing lives in the Caribbean nation.

Ensuring an Equitable Energy Transition

How the Caribbean Can Be a Model for a Resilient and Just Energy Future

Though island nations contribute the least to global emissions, they feel the effects of climate change the most.

Insight from Indonesia: Just Energy Transitions Hinge on Well-Equipped Energy Leaders

Jakarta-born Rizky Fauzianto explores RMI’s work supporting Indonesia in delivering on an unprecedented $20 billion energy transition pledge.

Jakarta-born Rizky Fauzianto explores RMI’s work supporting Indonesia in delivering on an unprecedented $20 billion energy transition pledge.