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This guide from the World Resources Institute outlines strategies for U.S. local governments to expand community solar access for low- and moderate-income (LMI) households, leveraging new federal incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act and various municipal-level interventions.

This guide from RMI explains how local governments can use Community Project Funding (CPF)—a form of discretionary spending available to members of Congress—to finance innovative clean energy and climate resilience projects that might not fit the strict criteria of traditional federal grants.

This guide explains how local governments in the United States can use buyer-led aggregation to procure off-site, large-scale renewable energy, providing a seven-step process and case studies to facilitate the transition.

This report summarizes the results of the UNLOCK project, which analyzed the role of Swedish municipalities in promoting sustainable consumption. It identifies barriers and opportunities for local governments to influence consumption patterns both through their own operations and by creating incentives for households and private businesses.

This policy brief by ICLEI South Asia examines the necessity of integrating local government actions into national planning to enhance urban resilience in Bangladesh. It highlights the gap between national policies and on-the-ground realities, recommending improved vertical integration, increased climate finance for municipalities, and technical capacity building for local officials to meet national and international climate commitments.

This report by the Stockholm Environment Institute presents results from a 2018 survey of 119 Swedish municipalities regarding their efforts to promote sustainable consumption. It highlights a significant gap between internal municipal sustainability efforts and efforts to influence households and businesses, while emphasizing the urgent need for stronger political support at the local level.

This fact sheet details a SEK 200 million (USD 24.2 million) green bond issued by Vellinge Municipality on March 8, 2018, with a five-year tenor maturing in 2023. The bond is intended to fund projects across energy, buildings, water and wastewater, waste management, and adaptation and resilience.

This research paper examines the adoption of green growth and green economy concepts by local government in Zambia, arguing that economic diversification and local government involvement are essential for achieving environmental sustainability.

This World Resources Institute working paper details the first phase of the Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative (AFAI), which maps international-to-national adaptation finance flows and assesses institutional contexts in Nepal, the Philippines, Uganda, and Zambia.

This policy brief examines the integration of climate change considerations into the Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) of Cape Town and eThekwini municipalities in South Africa. It highlights that while mainstreaming climate change into these statutory planning instruments is a critical step for local governance, it must be supported by technical expertise, political leadership, and sectoral measures to achieve climate-compatible development.

This viewpoint article examines the methods local governments use to measure community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, highlighting the lack of a universal standard and the challenges of accounting for imported and exported goods.

The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) provides detailed legal and technical submissions on the draft Air Quality Management By-law for the Ngkawi District Municipality (NDM). The CER recommends aligning the by-laws with national legislation, such as the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (AQA) and the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), and suggests stricter local emission and dust standards to protect human health, particularly given the area's location within a High Priority Area (HPA).

This policy brief, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute, details the findings of the UNLOCK project regarding the role of Swedish municipalities in advancing sustainable consumption. It examines current practices, the use of data, and the barriers local governments face, concluding that while there is strong momentum, greater national coordination and financial support are required to amplify impacts.

This research paper describes the development of the Assessing Climate Change Adaptation Framework (ACCAF) by the World Resources Institute (WRI) to enhance the monitoring and evaluation of the United Nations Capital Development Fund's (UNCDF) Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) mechanism, which provides performance-based grants to local authorities in Least Developed Countries.

The Local Government Renewables Action Tracker is an interactive web tool developed by the American Cities Climate Challenge Renewables Accelerator to compile renewable electricity transactions and advocacy efforts by U.S. local governments.

This research paper examines the role of local governments in locally led adaptation (LLA), focusing on the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) mechanism. Using case studies from Niger, Lesotho, and Cambodia, the paper argues that local governments are underutilized actors capable of mediating between national authorities and communities to manage climate finance and institutionalize adaptation within existing government structures.

This guide by the World Resources Institute (WRI) provides local governments with a framework for sourcing and collecting the data necessary to conduct a 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) analysis. It outlines the three primary datasets required—hourly load data, grid mix and emissions data, and additional energy procurement or generation data—and offers various methodologies for estimating these values when actual data is unavailable.