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Transforming the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

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RMI is an independent nonprofit founded in 1982 that transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to align with a 1.5°C future and secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all. We work in the world’s most critical geographies and engage businesses, policymakers, communities, and NGOs to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 percent by 2030. RMI has offices in Basalt and Boulder, Colorado; New York City; Oakland, California; Washington, D.C.; and Beijing.

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Need help deploying your first commercial-scale climate tech project? 🤝 Introducing Mark1 – a transformative new developer-as-a-service for capital intensive, first of a kind industrial climate technologies 🌟 Mark1 was created by Third Derivative, RMI, and Deep Science Ventures, alongside founding partners Builders Vision and Fluor Corporation, to bridge the gap to commercialization for critical emerging climate tech. “The gap between demonstration and commercialization is the deepest, widest ‘valley-of-death’ faced by our founders – and a critical bottleneck to the energy transition. Our back-of-the-envelope math tells us that we’re only seeing 1-17% of the funding the world needs for first-of-a-kind commercial climate tech projects. It’s a systemic challenge. Isolated success stories are not going to cut it, and neither is simply throwing money at the problem. We need a systemic solution – one that can methodically de-risk and attract market-rate capital to these projects – lots of them. We believe that Mark1 can be that solution, or at least an important part of it.” - Rushad Nanavatty, Managing Director of Third Derivative Learn more about Mark1: https://www.mark1.build/🚀 Applications for its first cohort will open later this year!
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As the world pushes to triple renewable energy and double efficiency by 2030, a big question is: How can we use public and philanthropic funding to scale private investment for clean energy projects? 🌍 At today’s Catalytic Climate Capital Forum during #ClimateWeekNYC, global leaders discussed how we can use catalytic climate capital — funds that take on more risk to encourage private companies to invest where they wouldn’t otherwise. The event highlighted how public-private partnerships are driving clean energy in developing countries. 🌱 🌎 Caribbean case studies, such as RMI’s CARICOM Resilience Fund, showed how collaboration between governments and businesses is creating scalable solutions for the region. 🌊🇨🇦 https://bit.ly/3Y1vEBBFour case studies from Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and Grenada laid out a roadmap for the energy transition in those countries - a preview of RMI's Caribbean Transition Scenario report that will be released next year! 🔑 Key takeaway: Successful climate finance initiatives depend on collaboration with local partners. This ensures that solutions are contextually appropriate and boosts the odds of scaling projects, especially in underserved regions like the Global South. “What we need now is implementation, not more innovation. Scaling proven solutions is the key to accelerating the energy transition." – Ije Ikoku Okeke, RMI #ClimateFinance #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction Benjamin Bartle (RMI), Carla Orrego (Climate Policy Initiative), Filippo Berardi (Global Environment Facility), Ije Ikoku Okeke (RMI), Daniel Firger (Great Circle Capital Advisors), Geraldine Alias (Three Cairns Group), Gianni Chianetta (Greening the Islands Foundation), Skylar Bee (RMI), Racquel Moses (Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator ), Charlin Bodley (Bezos Earth Fund), James Fletcher (SOLORICON Ltd.), and Rodinald Soomer (CARICOM Development Fund)
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I was excited to join Bloomberg Philanthropies for the launch of their Global Capacity Building Coalition (#GCBC) today at #climateweekNYC. The GCBC platform aims to support the mobilization of climate finance globally, and accelerate the transition to sustainable economies by addressing the capacity gap limiting investment in the transition. This new coalition will turbocharge climate finance capacity building and technical assistance for financial institutions in emerging markets and developing economies. RMI is proud to support such a coalition that reflects our commitment to expanding access to climate finance and solutions throughout the Global South. Read more about the coalition here:https://lnkd.in/dN98hsYc Mike Bloomberg Simon Stiell
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Rushad Nanavatty, Managing Director of RMI’s climate tech accelerator, Third Derivative, presented with Gehl - Making Cities for People and World Resources Institute at Kyu Collective for #ClimateWeekNYCW on the importance of reshaping cities to reclaim our climate destiny. 🏙️ Cities represent a path to a lower-emissions world. “Done right, they are profoundly good for the planet"- Rushad Nanavatty

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The final day of kyu House highlighted the future of climate action — and what that future looks like when we get things right. 🇯🇵 ENND PARTNERS leaders Tim Brown and Masanobu Iwabuchi were joined by Marukome USA Inc.’s Shuta Aoki to explore Japanese business lessons and how they can help in the climate fight. They talked existing in the space between the past and future, the concept of “mottainai” (a sense of regret concerning waste), and more. 💪 Leadership in the Climate Era isn’t just about the now. SYPartners’ Jessica Orkin and Kite Insights’s Sophie Lambin 🪁 hosted an intimate conversation that saw next-generation leaders like Alexandre da Rocha Leão and Sage Lenier taking center stage. 🏙️ Cities represent a path to a lower-emissions world. “Done right, they are profoundly good for the planet,” said Third Derivative and RMI’s Rushad Nanavatty in his introduction to Gehl - Making Cities for People, RMI, and World Resources Institute’s standing-room-only session. “We need a language to talk about the kind of life that a climate-aligned city offers,” said Gehl’s Blaine Merker, who pointed to examples of Gehl’s impactful work in places like Shanghai, Sydney, and Carmel, Indiana. The good vibes continued with an engaging panel hosted by Yuki Numata and featuring Majora Carter, Felipe Ramírez Buitrago, and Robin Chase. 🐝 What happens when we bring more nature and biodiversity into our everyday lives? Gehl’s second kyu House session explored how we can increase productivity, creativity, and well-being by transforming urban spaces. Gehl's Jeff Risom gathered insights from experts doing just that: urban ecologist Robin Grossinger, Majken Kalhave, Kristen Rydberg (of the urban beekeeping company Alvéole), and Merker. 📣 LinkedIn and Kite Insights got us pumped with another stellar debate — this time exploring “Is Climate Action Job Creation?” Debaters Dawn Lippert, Patrick Flynn, David Carlin, Ajaita S., Kwolanne Felix, and Caterina Sarfatti covered intentionality, entrepreneurship, global perspectives, and more for impressed jury members Wanjira Mathai, Nigar Arpadarai, and Allen Blue. While the “Against” debaters clinched victory, the vital discourse was a win for everyone. 🌍 kyu House wrapped up with a compelling vision of the future in a WRI and The Green Belt Movement session that centered on African entrepreneurship. “The challenge that I want to pose to all of us today is to see entrepreneurs all the way through. They're not just a ‘feel good’ story, they are a scale-up story,” said Endeavor Kenya’s Maryanne Ochola. We’ve had so many brilliant guests stop by kyu House at Climate Week NYC and we’re still buzzing about the compelling ideas they shared. See you next time at kyu House. 📸: David Dini for kyu House #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction
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🌍 Re-Energize Communities: Clean Industrial Growth Across America 🌍 At #ClimateWeekNYC, RMI and industry leaders explored how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is driving a clean manufacturing boom across the US. From EVs and batteries to steel and cement, clean energy investments are sparking job growth and economic prosperity nationwide. RMI’s Jacob Corvidae shared some details: “We’ve expanded [the Clean Growth Tool] across the United States. This deep economic analysis shows what cleantech is most feasible for different regions. Certain regions are better suited for some things, less well to others… It's a very specific tool to help communities understand where they’re going to need workforce development and what clean manufacturing industries they may want to invest in.” With global competition for clean energy investment heating up, the time to act is now! Explore our tool: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3TIwqRb
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🌍 Re-Energize Corporate Action at #ClimateWeekNYC 🌍 At #ClimateWeekNYC, RMI convened leaders from Amazon, Netflix, and Ripple to discuss how private sector action is critical to achieving clean energy goals. From entertainment companies to industrial manufacturers, our corporate partners are scaling innovative energy solutions that reduce emissions and accelerate the energy transition. Big corporations’ climate actions can deliver outsized impacts as they replicate up and down their supply chains. “We've got willing suppliers who want to move towards low-carbon solutions. We have willing buyers who understand that there is a cost curve [for] with new technologies, and they're willing lead in this space. We've got to match those up better.” — Chris Atkins, Amazon Worldwide Operations Sustainability Huge thanks to our speakers for joining us on the clean energy journey. Learn more about how RMI works with companies and industries to achieve a just energy transition. https://bit.ly/3XFhDbpShout out to Emma Stewart, Ph.D. (Netflix), Chris Atkins (Amazon Worldwide Operations Sustainability), Meghan Edge (Ripple), Chathu Gamage (RMI), Bonnie Lei (RMI), and Erin Callahan (RMI) for their contributions!
“Electricity demand is a feature, not a bug, of the clean energy transition and the pathway for meeting our climate goals,” RMI’s Mark Dyson told The New York Times. “Powering more of our economy with electricity, rather than fossil fuels, may get easier in the years ahead.” The growth of data centers, manufacturing, and clean energy industry in the United States is projected to lead to more energy demand. Right now, some utilities around the country are turning to more fossil fuel power plants at the prospect of this load growth. But there are better, less expensive options that can move us closer to meeting our climate goals, not farther from them. From solutions that make the most of the electricity grid we've already built to strategies that fast-track clean energy development at the site of current fossil fuel power plants, to virtual power plants and energy efficiency that make our homes safer and more resilient to climate shocks, we have the answers. With financial resources from the Inflation Reduction Act at the ready, utilities have the technologies and the support they need to build proactively toward a clean energy economy. https://bit.ly/4gPuIYq
Green Market Makers could facilitate the rapid growth of green ammonia, sustainable aviation fuel, green steel, and low-carbon cement by serving as matchmakers, pairing buyers with sellers. As demand for these low-carbon products grows, their cost will come down, further accelerating their widespread adoption. RMI collaborated with Mission Possible Partnership, Bezos Earth Fund, and others, on a new report that explores how G20 governments can unlock exponential growth across low-carbon commodities within ten years: https://bit.ly/3TJaipZ
Slashing methane emissions is among the fastest – and cheapest – ways to slow the pace of global warming in this decisive decade. But first, we have to find where methane is being released. New satellites and monitoring tools and technologies from RMI Environmental Defense Fund, Carbon Mapper, and more are making it clearer than ever where methane is being released worldwide. With this improved transparency , decision-makers can target their methane reduction strategies to the places where they are needed most. "We've finally gotten to the space where we understand fundamentally that things that are invisible can harm us -- and it held us back for a really long time. That's where I think the satellite data is going to be absolutely transformational, because methane isn’t invisible anymore. [...] That's really going to open up minds and doors and decisions all over -- financial, actors, governments, industry, all over the place," said RMI’s Deborah Gordon during our #ClimateWeekNYC event today on efforts to reduce methane from the oil and gas sector. RMI’s Oil Climate Index plus Gas (OCI+) tool, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, estimates methane leakage based on the amount of oil and gas produced for oil and gas basins globally. https://bit.ly/3U4oJFt #Methane #Emissions

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