CCS unveiled its latest report assessing Maryland's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trends and the potential for actions in all sectors to reach ambitious climate and clean energy goals, deliver energy and financial savings, and mobilize investment at scale.

CCS has provided technical assistance to the UN Development Programme to revise and simplify its cost and benefit assessment tool for Nature Based Solutions.

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) announced a major new partnership with George Mason University (Mason) to leverage climate change expertise and university resources through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support the creation of climate-resilient communities across Virginia.

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) joined the China-based Global Environmental Institute (GEI), the Shanxi Co-share Innovation Institute of Energy and Environment, and the Guangzhou Institute for Energy Conversion of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a joint side event on Addressing Technical and Financial Gaps in Developing Countries through North-South-South Cooperation COP 28 in Dubai.

In collaboration with local partners, the Rwanda Energy Group (REG), and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning (MININFRA), the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) recently completed a comprehensive modeling assessment and related tool installation and training for least cost, net zero, long-term strategies for energy capacity expansion and climate change objectives under the USAID Power Africa East Africa Energy Program (EAEP).

As part of the Green Recovery Alliance, the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) and the Climate Group (CG) hosted a webinar for states, tribes, localities, and interested stakeholders to review opportunities and needs regarding applications for the upcoming US EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant.

In cooperation with the US State Department, CCS engaged in a dialog session with a delegation of 14 African countries on approaches for national decarbonization planning, analysis, and implementation. The meeting was hosted by the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to enable country representatives to learn and discuss ways for their countries to move towards fully integrated net zero pathways.

CCS is proud to be working with leading US States, regions, and local governments to access federal programs within the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and $369 billion within the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Under the Green Recovery Alliance in partnership with the Climate Group (CG) as Secretariat of the Under2 Coalition, and with support from the New York Community Trust, CCS is identifying federal funding sources and incentives for climate policies and measures in the energy, buildings, and transportation sectors.

In partnership with the World Bank, CCS is pleased to launch a technical assistance program for the Government of Lao PDR for development of its Long-term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) and implementation roadmap. In the next ten months, CCS and local partners, Earth Systems and Care Laos, will provide coordinated stakeholder engagement and policy planning, design, analysis, and implementation steps to support the Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, Department of Climate Change (DCC-MONRE), and a range of other ministries.

During the August Annual Meeting of the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) at Ocean City Maryland, the Center for Climate Strategies and MACO’s Diversity and Women’s Caucus held a special session on the use of federal funds for climate stabilization, economic advancement, and Environmental Justice (including Justice 40 requirements).

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) continues to support the Government of Rwanda and its energy, economic, and climate change needs under the USAID Power Africa East Africa Energy Program (EAEP). Building on recent carbon neutral scenarios modeled by CCS for the power sector with the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) tool, a new assessment is being conducted to identify and assess the impact of a portfolio of mitigation strategies across energy and non-energy sectors that can enable Rwanda to achieve its net zero goal by 2050 through active implementation programs.

A joint webinar by The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) and Regional Economic Modeling, Inc. (REMI) to explore economic and financial tools for targeting climate policy and public investment deployment to stimulate greenhouse gas reduction, economic recovery, and environmental justice. The webinar featured Dr. Peter Evangelikas, Vice President of Economics and Consulting of REMI, and Thomas D. Peterson, President & CEO of CCS.

Under the USAID funded Power Africa East Africa Energy Program, the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is assessing electricity generation scenarios through 2050 for Rwanda to support the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) to meet growing national energy demand and address climate stabilization and resilience, economic recovery, and investment mobilization.

The new Abell Report “Turning Up the Heat on Cooling Down the Planet: Comparing the Climate Leadership Actions of Maryland and Massachusetts,” authored by the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), does just this by identifying the most important characteristics of government leadership and commitment necessary to address climate change by providing metrics to evaluate climate actions, gauge progress, and guide next steps.

Building on the US-China Climate Pledge announced at COP26, the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is pleased to announce the publication of its manuscript “US-China cooperation on low carbon development planning and analysis in China's provinces and cities” in a Special Edition of Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy.

Mato Grosso Governor, Mauro Mendes, and Environmental Secretary, Mauren Lazzaretti, announced, on October 25, 2021, the State’s historic new committment to becoming “Carbon Neutral” by 2035. The State plans to achieve its carbon neutrality well before 2050 by implementing its Decarbonization Pathway developed by government and local stakeholders with technical and facilitative support by the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS).

Tom Peterson of the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is honored to have been designated as an expert speaker on the Subsidiary Body for Science and Technical Assistance (SBSTA) Technical expert meeting on Practical Approaches to Economic Diversification and Transformation in preparation for the upcoming COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow.

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is pleased to introduce the GHG Strategy Tool, an open, transparent, user-friendly, native language, desktop analysis tool designed to support national and subnational governments and stakeholders with early stage, rapid, low-cost mitigation policy development and analysis to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.

Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Power Africa East Africa Energy Program (EAEP), the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is continuing its assessment of the electricity generation resource potential for Rwanda to support the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) in meeting growing national energy demand while also addressing other priorities, such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emission impacts, resilience, economic recovery, and investment.

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) has completed six subnational Decarbonization Pathways in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region for Queretaro and Quintana Roo in Mexico, Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso and Amazonas in Brazil, and Madre de Dios in Peru. The actionable plans, now publicly available, position these states and regions to achieve their 2050 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, including Net Zero, while enabling sustainable local economic development.