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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. Updated in 2026.

Climate and Land Use Planning: A Policy Guide for U.S. States and Territories helps states better understand how to use and manage lands in ways that reduce climate pollution and build greater resilience to climate impacts.
Climate and Land Use Planning

Climate and Land Use Planning: A Policy Guide for U.S. States and Territories helps states better understand how to use and manage lands in ways that reduce climate pollution and build greater resilience to climate impacts.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.