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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
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Legislative Guidance

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Legislative Guidance

California Air Resources Board

California Climate Investments are driven by a suite of legislation that establishes the statutory requirements for administering appropriations from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Explore bill summaries by year the legislation was enacted.

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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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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.

Evaluation of Climate Investments

Evaluation of Climate Investments

UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Explore multiple evaluations of California Climate Investments programs conducted by LCI. These evaluations are designed to help California meet its goal to maximize benefits to priority populations and to take the lessons, both the strengths and the shortcomings, from California’s experience and use it to inform more transformative, community-driven investments across the nation.

Evaluation of five Transformative Climate Communities Program Investments

Evaluation of five Transformative Climate Communities Program Investments

UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

The Luskin Center for Innovation is conducting an ongoing evaluation of process, progress, and results of the Transformative Climate Communities Program, which is supporting innovative, comprehensive, and equitable action in five cities: Fresno, Ontario, Stockton, and the Watts and Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

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Priority Populations Map

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Priority Populations Map

California Air Resources Board

This map shows disadvantaged communities and low-income communities as defined for California Climate Investments. To see if a particular location is within a disadvantaged community or low-income community, either navigate to the desired location on the map, search for the location by address, or enter a 10 digit census tract number in the search bar. Layers can be adjusted using the layer tool. Census tracts that are both disadvantaged and low-income blend to a color not represented in the legend if overlapping.

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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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