Economic Recovery

Economic Recovery

Includes economic and fiscal analysis, program design, and stimulus deployment

Overview:

Experience has proven that with proper design and implementation, climate change policy actions can act as investments that stimulate economies toward job recovery and economic growth in all economic sectors.
To integrate economic and climate change planning and support public private collaboration, we provide expert program design and critical analysis of macroeconomic, fiscal, and environmental impacts of climate change solutions.
To support implementation of economic development goals through economic, energy, and natural resources programs, we help governments and stakeholders identify and deploy investment models and financial mechanisms.

Featured Projects

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American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Financing

We support implementation of sustainable economic, energy, and environmental systems that generate and require new public and private investment. We work hard to ensure that inadequate funding is not a barrier to state climate plans. We understand how to design and mobilize investment responses for policies and plans in order to fully capture their potential, and to effectively take advantage of limited public resources.

Economic Stimulus, Recovery, and Climate Mitigation: Policy and Program Opportunities from the States

A review of 20 state climate action plans reveals that dozens of existing federal and hundreds of existing state and local programs could be effective vehicles for economic stimulus funding that would reduce emissions, create jobs, increase energy security and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in secondary economic stimulus and recovery.

Green Recovery Alliance

The Green Recovery Alliance is a partnership between the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) and Climate Group, as Secretariat of the Under2 Coalition. It will provide tailored support to US state governments for planning the acquisition and targeted use of federal funding via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and other economic recovery funds.

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Assessment of Utility-Scale Solar in Maryland

At the request of a consortium of clean energy advocates, the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) recently completed a macroeconomic and fiscal assessment of increased deployment of utility-scale solar projects in the State of Maryland. The study, entitled “Macroeconomic and Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Utility-Scale Solar Generation in Maryland,” examines proposed policy changes for the siting of new large solar projects in the state and analyzed the potential macroeconomic and fiscal benefits that are likely from accelerating deployment of these projects.

Security And Investment Project

The CCS Security and Investment Project provided a comprehensive leadership strategy for the emerging energy economy and the trend to safer and more sustainable approaches.

It detailed how past progress has been made by localities, states, and national agencies to meet climate, energy, and economic goals at the same time. And it pointed to specific new actions that can do more now.