Energy and Climate is a joint initiative of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and the World Resources Institute’s Climate and Energy programs. We aim help cities power development with affordable sustainable electricity, significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate change impacts, meet ambitious goals on access to urban opportunities and energy, and drive ambition in both sub-national and national climate commitments. We advocate for the adoption of global and local strategies that reconcile top-down and bottom-up approaches with specific demonstration and pilot projects in targeted countries and cities.

Our objective is to enable national governments to change national and international frameworks that enable local government actions. We do this by focusing on four key areas:

1. Developing and diffusing tools, methodologies, and standards to design, plan, fund, and implement low-carbon urban projects and to measure greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Encouraging national and local actions linking energy and climate by making the case that the low-carbon pathway is feasible and produces benefits for sustainable development.
3. Shifting and increasing funding for low-carbon urban development internationally and nationally by identifying barriers and strategies to overcome them.
4. Improving access to low-carbon technology by building national and local capacities to identify and assess barriers preventing technology transfer.

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