Rhodium Group

The Clean Investment Monitor of the Rhodium Group and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research provides real-time information to the public on how decarbonization is proceeding in the United States, along with economic policy implications at the national, state, and local level. This project will expand that work globally — and, as in the U.S. version, will incorporate information on manufacturing, energy and industry, and retail activities. The new global version will also track international trade in and subsidies for low-GHG cross-border investments.

Rhodium Group is an independent research provider, combining economic data and policy insight to analyze global trends. Through this grant, Rhodium Group, working with scholars at MIT, will help develop and maintain a comprehensive, independent, publicly available tracking system for new investments supported by the climate, energy, and infrastructure legislation passed by the U.S. Congress. Data will be provided on a quarterly basis, and disaggregated by sector and by geography. No such system currently exists. It will enable a more accurate assessment of the efficacy of the legislation and associated policy.

This grant is to support Rhodium Group to strengthen economic analysis of China’s low-carbon transition. Given the low-carbon agenda’s dominant role in China’s political space, and China’s pivotal point during the current economic slowdown, Rhodium Group will use this grant to continue a multiyear initiative to reconcile a conventional growth policy, necessary for the transition to China’s low-carbon economy future.