Recent Materials

INC has been partnering with Metrics Reporting, Inc. (MRI) for over a decade on the advancement of evidence-based Talent Supply Chain Management practices as a strategy for innovation in our workforce development systems. MRI has produced three guidebooks on this subject. This slide show provides an overview of the guidebooks.

Presentation on city best practices prepared for the State Department international cities climate exchange.

How cities can integrate equity issues into their energy supply transformation work.

An overview of city strategies to achieve 100% renewable energy use.

A detailed annotated outline of a sample city deep de-carbonization plan, based on the CNCA framework.

A framework of how cities can plan for deep carbon reduction across multiple sectors, prepared for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance.

An overview of how U.S. cities are demonstrating leadership on climate mitigation and adaptation, prepared for Bloomberg Philanthropies.

An analysis of how the GRC Renewable Energy Leadership Prize spurred additional action on large scale renewable energy purchasing.

An overview of potential legal liability for climate risk for development professionals and government officials.

An overview of how electricity markets work in Massachusetts. A great introduction to electricity regulation and pricing in general.

Background on strategies for large energy users to purchase renewable energy, locally or nationally.

A summary of the Energy System Transformation framework.

This report examines the potential use by cities in the United States of mechanisms for pricing carbon emissions. Carbon pricing has occurred almost exclusively at “higher” levels of government: national, multi-national, state/provincial, or multi-state/provincial scales. Nonetheless, as more U.S. cities adopt ambitious long-term goals and strategies for deep reductions in carbon emissions, there is growing interest in understanding the feasibility and potential impact of city-based pricing and in how the design and implementation of pricing mechanisms at scales that encompass cities might impact cities’ carbon-reduction efforts. The project’s research, interviews, and survey of 26 cities in the U.S. identified a set of Background Items, Findings, and Implications. Funding for this project was provided by the Summit Foundation.

This report presents a framework for urban climate adaptation that identifies seven essential capacities that cities need to develop so they can effectively implement climate adaptation actions in the short- and long-term. This framework is based on an extensive review of current adaptation practice and is different from most available frameworks, which focus primarily on processes for adaptation planning and specific actions to take depending on which climate hazards a city faces. Identifying the new, enduring capacities that cities need builds on the current knowledge of urban adaptation. The report was supported with funding from the Summit Foundation.