Knowledge Hub

The Center’s Knowledge Hub is a curated resource for financial institutions, policymakers and regulators, and other stakeholders interested in climate-aligned finance. The Hub features the Center’s latest thought leadership, including reports and tools like the Climate AIR (Alignment, Impact, and Risk) Toolbox, as well as guidelines, standards, insights, and tools from external experts.

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Firm-level Alignment | April 4, 2024

RMI and five global banks launch the Pegasus Guidelines—a voluntary emissions measurement and reporting standard for the aviation sector

RMI, in cooperation with leading global banks—BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, Societe Generale, and Standard Chartered—and in consultation with industry, experts, and additional financial institutions has developed a first-of-its-kind framework to enable banks to measure and disclose their aviation lending portfolios’ emissions in a consistent and comprehensive manner.

Climate Air Toolbox

The Climate AIR Toolbox helps financial institutions identify and access the different types of tools, frameworks, and platforms available to measure and report their climate-related alignment, impact, and risk.

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Climate-aligned finance explained, plus insights on recent trends and market developments on climate alignment across the financial sector.

Latest trends and developments in climate-related financial policy and regulation.

Insights, best practices, and guidelines on how to best implement climate alignment across financial institutions.

Insights on how sectoral approaches can best support climate alignment and real economy decarbonization. Updates, best practices, and relevant case studies from our sectoral work streams.

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Sectoral Alignment | February 6, 2024

How Clean Industrial Developers can Overcome Five Project Finance Barriers

New cleantech projects across the U.S. will rely on project finance — but getting access to private capital requires checking some boxes.

Sectoral Alignment | August 16, 2023

Five Lessons for Industrial Project Finance from H2 Green Steel

A project finance template is taking shape in Swedish steelmaking that could scale to clean industrial hubs around the world.

Sectoral Alignment | July 18, 2023

How Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Can Drive Solar Development

Leveraging REITs to Reduce Emissions and Increase Shareholder Value

Sectoral Alignment | May 22, 2023

Three Federal Funding Pools Every Industrial Project Developer Should Know About

A primer on public loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits for US clean industrial projects.

Sectoral Alignment | March 22, 2023

The Fed’s Climate Tests Are Missing the Next Big Failure

By focusing only on large banks, the Fed is overlooking the greater climate risks facing smaller institutions.

Firm-level Alignment | January 18, 2023

Advancing the Role of Private Finance in the Managed Phaseout of Coal Power

In this webinar, RMI experts discuss the topic of coal managed phaseout, including presenting two working papers prepared by RMI’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance that lay out guidance on metrics and targets and financing mechanisms.

Sectoral Alignment | January 6, 2023

Metrics and Mechanisms to Finance a Managed Coal Phaseout

Read RMI’s new guidance for how financial institutions can play a key role in the managed phaseout of coal power.

Sectoral Alignment | December 16, 2022

Banks Bet on Green Steel

Green steel financing commitments offer a replicable model for climate-aligned finance

Sectoral Alignment | November 23, 2022

The Right Nudge: Targeted Interventions to Accelerate the Technology Shift in Buildings

How financial institutions can help building decarbonization technologies reach key tipping points.

Sectoral Alignment | September 28, 2022

Major banks agree sustainability overhaul for US$23bn steel portfolio

Six international banks have agreed to measure and publicly disclose the carbon intensity of their steel lending portfolios, in an attempt to push an industry reliant on highly polluting coal towards net-zero emissions.