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Spotlight: Build Back Better

A Path to Global Resilience

The world is going through an enormous crisis impacting us all. But together we will rise to the challenges before us.

The path forward requires a collaborative, global response, much like that needed to address the looming climate crisis. Stimulus and recovery investments will be vital to our collective rebuilding from the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. And if these investments are strategically targeted, they can help us address these two crises simultaneously.

Rocky Mountain Institute is sharing our insights on how countries around the globe can use stimulus and recovery investment to build back better from this crisis and advance us toward a cleaner, healthier, more just, and more resilient future for the one planet we all share.

The reports in our Green Stimulus and Recovery Series present a framework for planning and evaluating stimulus efforts along with recommendations for green stimulus and recovery investments and actions specific to the United States, China, India, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean that can help optimize efforts to rebuild in these countries and regions.

Learn more about RMI’s Green Stimulus and Recovery report series and other RMI insights on stimulus and recovery below.

Green Stimulus and Recovery Series

Global Stimulus Principles
The Economy We Build Should Not Be the Same Economy We Decarbonize

The report articulates four core principles of strategic stimulus and recovery for global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn that can simultaneously benefit the economy, the environment, and our communities. These principles provide an important framework for planning and evaluating future stimulus efforts.
Achieving a Green Recovery for China
Putting Zero-Carbon Electrification at the Core

The report articulates four core principles of strategic stimulus and recovery for global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn that can simultaneously benefit the economy, the environment, and our communities. These principles provide an important framework for planning and evaluating future stimulus efforts.
Green Stimulus in the Caribbean
Resilient Distributed Energy Resources Can Support Job Creation and Economic Diversification

Distributed energy resources (DERs) bring multiple benefits not only to electricity systems but also to communities and economies. Many islands in the Caribbean are transitioning from electricity systems that are traditionally centralized in nature and powered by fossil fuels to a new paradigm incorporating DERs.
US Stimulus Strategy
Recommendations for a Zero-Carbon Economic Recovery

The report recommends four key programs that US policymakers could direct stimulus investment toward to support short- and long-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn while ensuring progress on the climate crisis.
India Stimulus Strategy
Recommendations Towards a Clean Energy Economy

This report discusses how COVID-19 is beginning to influence the clean energy transition in India, specifically for the transport and power sectors, and identifies principles and strategic opportunities for the country’s leaders to drive economic recovery and maintain momentum on the clean energy transition.
US City Stimulus
Advancing Localized Green Recovery and Resilience

The report recommends five strategies that Congress could use to direct stimulus investment toward helping cities recover and build back better from the dual challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn.
Sub-Saharan Africa Stimulus Strategy
A Springboard for Increased Local Resilience and Economic Growth

Energy challenges are one of the common features of current disruptions in sub-Saharan African countries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Webinars

Webinar: Green Stimulus and Recovery

Webinar: Green Stimulus and Recovery

Webinar: Green Stimulus and Recovery

A Path to Global Resilience

Watch Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Jules Kortenhorst, former US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, and RMI Principals Carla Frisch and Uday Varadarajan discuss the interrelationships between the COVID-caused health and economic crisis and the looming climate crisis. This webinar explores how strategic stimulus and recovery investment can help us address both of these crises at once.

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