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Funding Guidelines

California Air Resources Board

CARB developed the Funding Guidelines to provide direction for agencies that administer California Climate Investments so they design and implement their programs in a way that facilitates greenhouse gas emission reductions, meets statutory requirements, maximizes and benefits to disadvantaged communities, targets investments to disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households to help ensure statutory investment minimums are met or exceeded, provides accountability and transparency; and supports consistency across programs.

Funding Guidelines

Administering Agencies

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Funding and Public Participation Calendar

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Funding and Public Participation Calendar

California Air Resources Board

View upcoming California Climate Investments funding timelines, public participation opportunities such as workshops, public comment periods, listening sessions, and more.

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Funding Workbook for all California Tribes

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Funding Workbook for all California Tribes

California Air Resources Board

An interactive resource that guides Tribes through narrowing down which California Climate Investments funding opportunities might be a good fit based on your Tribe’s needs and priorities. 

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Public Participation Opportunities

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Public Participation Opportunities

California Air Resources Board

Current opportunities to participate in identifying areas for improvement of existing materials and ideas for tools and resources to help achieve the objectives and principles of California Climate Investments.

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Priority Populations Benefits

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Priority Populations Benefits

Learn how to identify priority populations and access resources to help deliver benefits and advance equity and environmental justice.

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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

Explore resources that can be used to provide technical assistance in a way that advances equity and builds community capacity to secure funding and implement projects that can help reverse past disinvestment.

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Community Connections

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Community Connections

California Air Resources Board

Community Connections is a tool to help organizations and agencies find partners interested in California Climate Investments. Partnerships ensure that project proposals reflect the perspectives needed to build resilient communities and implement meaningful investment.

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Expenditure Records

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Expenditure Records

California Air Resources Board

Administering agencies are required to prepare an expenditure record documenting how their investments will further the purposes of Assembly Bill 32, contribute to achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions and other health and environmental co-benefits, and meet other statutory requirements. View sample templates and submitted documents.

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Priority Populations Benefit Criteria Tables

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Priority Populations Benefit Criteria Tables

California Air Resources Board

Benefit Criteria Tables are used by administering agencies and applicants to identify the priority populations that will benefit from the project, and determine how the project will meaningfully address an important community or household need and provide a benefit.

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Quantification, Benefits, and Reporting Materials

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Quantification, Benefits, and Reporting Materials

California Air Resources Board

Administering agencies must use CARB tools to develop effective programs and demonstrate compliance with program requirements. Resources on this page include quantification methodologies and calculator tools for estimating GHG emissions reductions and co-benefits; benefit criteria tables for determining benefits to priority populations; and reporting templates for reporting outcomes. 

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Co-benefit Assessment Methodologies

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Co-benefit Assessment Methodologies

California Air Resources Board

Methods for evaluating project co-benefits for projects, including jobs, air pollutant emissions, travel cost savings, vehicle miles traveled, energy and fuel cost savings, water savings, soil health and conservation, and heart and lung health.

Moving California: Projects in Action

Moving California: Projects in Action

California Air Resources Board

California Climate Investments light duty, heavy duty, and clean mobility project snapshots and lessons learned.

California Climate Investments | Cap-and-Trade Dollars at Work