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U.S. Climate Alliance 2024 Annual Report | No Turning Back | Report details how a surge of investment, collaboration, and action from the Alliance’s 24 member states and territories is eliminating harmful climate pollution, growing the economy, and transforming communities across America.
2024 Annual Report | No Turning Back

Report details how a surge of investment, collaboration, and action from the Alliance’s 24 member states and territories – alongside the Biden-Harris administration – is eliminating harmful climate pollution, growing the economy, and transforming communities across America.

U.S. Climate Alliance 2023 Annual Report | All Hands on Deck: The Alliance’s 25 member states and territories are now projected to reduce collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 26% by 2025 below 2005 levels and achieve their near-term climate target.
2023 Annual Report | All Hands On Deck

The Alliance’s 25 member states and territories are projected to reduce collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 26% below 2005 levels by 2025 and achieve their near-term climate goal.

Enabling Industrial Decarbonization: A Policy Guidebook for U.S. States details strategies and pathways for policymakers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industrial sector.
Enabling Industrial Decarbonization

Enabling Industrial Decarbonization: A Policy Guidebook for U.S. States details strategies and pathways for policymakers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industrial sector.

The State Guide to Enhance the Sector's Contribution to State and National Climate Goals offers sector-specific guidance and dozens of case studies to help integrate NWLs into state climate goals.
Natural & Working Lands & Climate Action

The State Guide to Enhance the Sector’s Contribution to State and National Climate Goals offers sector-specific guidance and dozens of case studies to help integrate NWLs into state climate goals.

U.S. Climate Alliance 2022 Annual Report | Full Speed Ahead: The Alliance's 24 states and territories are tackling climate change while achieving lower levels of harmful local air pollution, delivering more energy savings, employing more clean energy workers and preparing more effectively for climate impacts.
2022 Annual Report | Full Speed Ahead

The Alliance’s 24 states and territories are tackling climate change while achieving lower levels of harmful local air pollution, delivering more energy savings, employing more clean energy workers and preparing more effectively for climate impacts.

The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: A Guide for State Officials, produced for the Alliance by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, informs states’ use of the SC-GHG in policymaking and analysis.
The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: A Guide for State Officials, produced for the Alliance by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, informs states’ use of the SC-GHG in policymaking and analysis.

An update to the 2018 version, the 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.
Governor’s Climate Resilience Playbook

An update to the 2018 version, the 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.

The U.S. Climate Alliance submitted letters to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and congressional leaders to highlight several common-sense changes to federal funding rules that will enable states with the greatest staffing, budgetary, and capacity constraints to effectively utilize — and therefore maximize the impact of — federal funding opportunities.
U.S. Climate Alliance Calls on OMB and Congress to Reform Federal Funding Rules

The U.S. Climate Alliance submitted letters to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and congressional leaders to highlight several common-sense changes to federal funding rules that will enable states with the greatest staffing, budgetary, and capacity constraints to effectively utilize — and therefore maximize the impact of — federal funding opportunities.

The 2021 Building Decarbonization Roadmap, produced by RMI through collaboration with staff from various state offices as well as industry experts, is a tool designed to summarize the highest-impact actions that states can take to decarbonize.
Building Decarbonization Roadmap

The 2021 Building Decarbonization Roadmap, produced by RMI through collaboration with staff from various state offices as well as industry experts, is a tool designed to summarize the highest-impact actions that states can take to decarbonize.

Jobs in the Clean Economy 2020: As U.S. Climate Alliance states and territories created more than 133,000 new clean energy jobs and outpaced the rest of the nation between 2016-2019.
Jobs in the Clean Economy 2020

As U.S. Climate Alliance states and territories created more than 133,000 new clean energy jobs and outpaced the rest of the nation between 2016-2019.

The Guide to Natural and Working Lands Inventory Improvements is intended to help advance states’ progress and evaluates current NWL inventory methods among U.S. Climate Alliance states, identifies gaps and provides information and resources.
Natural & Working Lands Inventory Improvements

The Guide to Natural and Working Lands Inventory Improvements is intended to help advance states’ progress and evaluates current NWL inventory methods among U.S. Climate Alliance states, identifies gaps and provides information and resources.

The New Governors’ Resilience Playbook helps new governors mitigate costs and threats from extreme weather and natural disasters through effective resilience and climate preparedness strategies.
New Governors’ Resilience Playbook

The New Governors’ Resilience Playbook helps new governors mitigate costs and threats from extreme weather and natural disasters through effective resilience and climate preparedness strategies.

RMI created this Non-Wires Solutions Implementation Playbook to delineate innovative approaches to spur non-wires solution adoption and recommend planning and operational strategies to improve non-wires solution processes.
Non-Wires Solutions Implementation Playbook

RMI created this Non-Wires Solutions Implementation Playbook to delineate innovative approaches to spur non-wires solution adoption and recommend planning and operational strategies to improve non-wires solution processes.

To assist states and localities in accelerating solar adoption, the U.S. Climate Alliance partnered with the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) to elevate crucial strategies and tools for state and local governments.
Solar Deployment Guidebook

To assist states and localities in accelerating solar adoption, the U.S. Climate Alliance partnered with the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) to elevate crucial strategies and tools for state and local governments.

The U.S. Climate Alliance sent a letter to the Department of Transportation (DOT) emphasizing the need for strong clean car standards that reduce vehicle pollution and improve efficiency to protect our health, environment and climate, while strengthening U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and creating American jobs.
U.S. Climate Alliance Defends Clean Car Standards

The U.S. Climate Alliance sent a letter to the Department of Transportation (DOT) emphasizing the need for strong clean car standards that reduce vehicle pollution and improve efficiency to protect our health, environment and climate, while strengthening U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and creating American jobs.

This Roadmap brings the SLCP Challenge for reducing short-lived climate pollutants to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement to action by outlining a menu of options states will consider.
From SLCP Challenge to Action

This Roadmap brings the SLCP Challenge for reducing short-lived climate pollutants to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement to action by outlining a menu of options states will consider.