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.
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.
California Air Resources Board
This document reviews available empirical literature on the Jobs Co-benefit and identifies the direction and magnitude of the co-benefit indicators, the limitations of existing empirical literature, the existing assessment methods and tools, knowledge gaps and other issues to consider in developing co-benefit assessment methods, a proposed assessment method for further development, and an estimation of the level of effort and delivery schedule for a fully developed method.
California Air Resources Board
Example guidance from the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP) where applicants are encouraged to consider how to contribute to workforce development in the climate and clean transportation sectors wherever possible. This may include providing economic opportunities through high-quality jobs or partnering with workforce development and training programs with career pathways for residents of the STEP Community. To the extent feasible, Applicants are encouraged to particularly consider how to target jobs and job training to residents of disadvantaged and low-income census tracts, residents of low-income households, and other residents that face barriers to employment.
