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Small EV customers, including multi-family housing residents and small fleet operators, face significant barriers to grid connection, such as unpredictable costs, long timelines, and a lack of technical expertise. To address this, RMI and its partners developed a roadmap focusing on four key areas: enhancing customer educational resources, increasing utility process transparency, collaborating with local governments and industry to streamline permitting and workforce development, and maintaining post-energization customer relationships.

The research identifies that while health and environmental benefits motivate the transition to electric school buses, districts are hindered by concerns over cost, infrastructure, and technology. Notably, geography and locale influence district needs more than priority status, and most districts do not currently integrate equity considerations into their electrification processes.

The 2024 State of Cities Climate Finance report (SCCFR) reveals a significant gap between current urban climate finance flows and the trillions of dollars required for mitigation and adaptation. While 69% of urban climate finance is sourced domestically, international flows from developed to developing economies remain low at USD 12 billion. Mitigation needs are dominated by transport, energy, and buildings, with East Asia and the Pacific having the highest annual requirements. The report advocates for the '4C Urban Climate Finance Agenda'—Commitment, Collaboration, Capacity, and Capital Mobilization—to scale finance and improve data tracking.

Tracked urban climate finance reached USD 831 billion in 2021/2022, more than doubling since 2017/2018. However, this remains severely insufficient compared to estimated annual mitigation needs of USD 4.3 trillion by 2030. Finance is heavily concentrated in developed economies and China, with critical gaps in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. While mitigation flows are dominated by transport and buildings, adaptation finance is significantly lower at USD 10 billion, primarily focused on water and wastewater. The report advocates for a '4C Urban Climate Finance Agenda'—Commitment, Collaboration, Capacity, and Capital Mobilization—to bridge the investment gap.

CPI estimates that California requires an annual average of USD 62 billion from 2023 to 2035 to meet its climate goals, with zero-emission vehicles accounting for half of this need. While climate finance spending grew by 26% annually between 2019 and 2022, reaching USD 39 billion in 2022, a gap remains. The report notes that finance is distributed relatively evenly per capita by county and is not currently prioritized for areas with higher pollution metrics.

The document assesses the potential for a cross-sector collaboration space in Geneva to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies Geneva's strengths, such as the high density of international organizations and NGOs, but notes barriers including bureaucratic processes and a lack of accessible collaborative spaces in the Nations area.

The document outlines a collaboration between the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Strategic Impact Advisors (SIA), supported by FSD Africa, to assess digital connectivity and financial service provider mapping in Sudan. The project aims to identify barriers and opportunities for providing digital financial products to hard-to-reach displaced communities in West Darfur and White Nile, leading to a pilot project for digital payments.

The assessment examined the awareness and challenges of transport planners in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia, as well as other African regions, regarding the needs of disadvantaged groups and climate change risks. Using a mixed-method approach involving a regional survey, focus groups, and interviews, the study aims to inform a Guidance Framework for inclusive climate-resilient transport planning in Africa.

The State of Palestine (SoP) seeks USD 893,872 from the Green Climate Fund to overcome barriers to climate finance exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Israeli occupation. The proposal focuses on three main outcomes: establishing a National Digital Climate Change Platform to enable remote coordination and data sharing; conducting a holistic readiness needs assessment and a framework for health co-benefits; and developing six high-quality project concept notes (five in energy and agriculture, one in health). The project, to be implemented by Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC over 18 months, aims to restore disrupted NDC implementation and improve the matching of project concepts with international Accredited Entities.

The SADC-HYCOS IV Project seeks to strengthen the capacity of 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states to manage climate-related water risks. The project focuses on restoring hydrological monitoring stations damaged by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, upgrading data transmission from expensive satellite systems to cost-effective GSM-modem technology, and establishing a centralised regional hydrological database. By improving the availability of contextually-appropriate hydrological information and early-warning systems, the project intends to provide adaptation benefits to approximately 140 million vulnerable people, particularly those reliant on agriculture and fisheries.

The project aims to build climate resilience in Ghana's agriculture sector by establishing a national framework for drought management, enhancing technical capacities for climate observation and modelling, and improving the delivery of decision-support services to vulnerable farming communities. It targets 2.7 million direct beneficiaries and seeks to address critical gaps in institutional coordination and technical forecasting.

The report details a March 2019 workshop aimed at addressing the opportunities and challenges of Voluntary Sustainability Certification (VSC) in Kenya's tea industry. Key findings highlight that while VSCs improve market access and environmental practices, they impose prohibitive costs and create 'certification fatigue' due to a multiplicity of standards. The document recommends the development of a national benchmarked standard, similar to the Kenya Flower Council's model, and the creation of a multistakeholder platform to implement a collective action plan.

The report details a multistakeholder workshop focused on the impact of Voluntary Sustainability Certification (VSC) on Rwanda's coffee sector. It identifies significant barriers for smallholder farmers, including high annual audit costs, a lack of local certification bodies, and a mismatch between the supply of certified coffee and market demand. The document proposes solutions such as the development of a national 'Rwanda GAP' standard, the translation of training manuals into Kinyarwanda, and the creation of a multistakeholder platform for data sharing and coordination to improve the economic viability and sustainability of the sector.

The 2019 report 'Chilling Prospects' tracks the progress of sustainable cooling access, noting that 1.05 billion people remain at high risk due to lack of cooling. It highlights the development of National Cooling Plans in China and India and introduces the 'Cooling for All Needs Assessment' to move beyond equipment-based projections toward a holistic approach covering human safety, food security, and health services. The report emphasizes the risk posed by the 2.2 billion lower-middle income people who may adopt inefficient cooling devices, increasing GHG emissions.

The report identifies that 1.05 billion people remain at high risk due to a lack of cooling access, while another 2.2 billion are at risk of adopting inefficient cooling technologies. It advocates for a shift from equipment-based projections to a needs-based assessment covering thermal comfort, food security, and medical cold chains. Key progress is noted in the development of National Cooling Plans in India, China, and Rwanda, alongside the launch of the Cool Coalition and innovative financing models like Cooling as a Service (CaaS).

The document examines how urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry (UPAF) are integrated into climate change action plans and the specific monitoring data required by city governments and international organisations to finance and implement these interventions. It highlights that climate change, combined with the loss of urban green cover, threatens infrastructure and quality of life, while rapid urban growth and climate-driven agricultural disruptions increase food insecurity for the urban poor.

The report identifies a high demand for knowledge resources to overcome financial and technological barriers to knowledge management in AAP countries, with the greatest need for climate change risk and impact assessments. Specifically, respondents highlighted the most urgent needs for knowledge to address water shortages, food security, and the loss of livelihoods.

The report identifies a critical gap between climate science outputs and the operational needs of transportation practitioners. It argues that adaptation requires not only improved climate data—such as updated precipitation atlases and sea-level rise projections—but also a deep understanding of local non-climate factors like infrastructure elevation and soil saturation. The document emphasizes the need for a 'central clearinghouse' of information, better 'Climate-to-English' translation of scientific terms, and the integration of climate risk into existing asset management and budgeting processes. It highlights various pilot projects and tools, including the FHWA Risk Assessment Model and Toronto's Climate Change Risk Assessment Tool, as pathways toward increasing the adaptive capacity of transportation systems.

The report identifies significant barriers to deep energy efficiency retrofits in the U.S. commercial sector, primarily centered on financing, a lack of performance data, and split incentives. While 71% of surveyed stakeholders express high interest in deep retrofits, the private sector remains risk-averse, often requiring short payback periods of 2-4 years. The study concludes that providing targeted informational resources, such as case studies and improved energy modeling tools, is essential to reduce perceived risks and stimulate industry-wide activity.

The report details discussions from a COP19 workshop on climate-induced relocation, highlighting the extreme financial costs for communities in Alaska and the Pacific, the need for national relocation policies, and the tension between voluntary adaptation and forced loss and damage. It emphasizes the importance of community-led decision-making to protect cultural identity and calls for better integration of relocation into UNFCCC frameworks like NAPAs and the Loss and Damage mechanism.