An Approach to Activating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in Disadvantaged Communities

The city of Los Angeles is a longtime leader on environmental, energy, and equity issues. It has assembled a suite of policies and programs to confront a Gordian knot of inter-related and increasingly urgent crises. The city’s work can provide some conceptual scaffolding and serve as a replicable model for how to scale macropolicy goals down to the project level and generate real-world project data that can be reapplied to inform program design, capital formation, product development, and deployment strategies elsewhere.