Advancing a Healthy Environment and a Thriving Economy

RFF has provided crucial modeling support for the development of major clean electricity standard policies, including three recent Congressional proposals.

As part of a team that made international headlines, RFF’s research and modeling on ice sheets found that sea levels may rise in excess of two meters by 2100—double previous estimates.

RFF expertise helped inform the multibillion-dollar Energy Act of 2020 by demonstrating the benefits of additional funding for advanced energy technologies.

In collaboration with NASA, RFF research showed that twice as many Americans as previously thought live in areas that do not meet national air quality standards.

RFF’s research on enabling equity in the energy transition helped inform Senate bills that would create jobs and reduce emissions by investing in local economic development and plugging oil and gas wells.

RFF provides crucial assistance to states like Colorado where we helped show how to meet emissions targets through the use of flexible cap-and-trade policies.

RFF is leading a global team working to improve the science behind the social cost of carbon—a key metric that governments and businesses use to account for climate change in their actions.

RFF’s Business Leadership Council convenes corporations and NGOs to share lessons learned in implementing internal corporate carbon pricing strategies.