California Air Resources Board

Learn how California Climate Investments puts billions of dollars of Cap-and-Invest, formerly known as Cap-and-Trade, auction proceeds to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, improving public health and the environment, and providing meaningful benefits to priority populations.

California Air Resources Board

The Cap-and-Trade Program is a key element of California’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It complements other measures to ensure that California cost-effectively meets its goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

California Air Resources Board

Learn about priority populations and how California Climate Investments programs are providing benefits.

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

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.

California Air Resources Board

The Legislature and Governor appropriate money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) to State agencies through the Budget process. View dollars made available to State agencies for California Climate Investments programs.

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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.

California Air Resources Board

Definitions and more information about commonly used terms in the California Climate Investments Funding Guidelines and other materials.

California Air Resources Board

Guidance for grantees and contractors implementing California Climate Investments projects and programs around the state to ensure brand and messaging consistency.

California Air Resources Board

The benefit assessment tool is used to help decide if a project benefits a priority population. Administering agencies, applicants, and/or funding recipients use the tool to report on projects selected through a solicitation released after February 28, 2025.

California Air Resources Board

Benefit Criteria Tables are used by administering agencies and applicants to determine if a project selected through a solicitation released on or before February 28, 2025 will meaningfully address an important community or household need and provide a benefit.

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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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.

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Guidance for estimating the job co-benefits of projects.

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Provides uniform methods that can be applied statewide and are accessible by all applicants and funding recipients, uses existing and proven tools or methods, where available, and identifies the appropriate data needed to calculate co-benefits.

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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.

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If direct community engagement is not possible, administering agencies, applicants, and/or funding recipient can refer to the list of common needs and select a need that has documented broad support from local community-based organizations and/or residents. While this list includes some common needs of priority populations, as identified by community advocates, it is not intended to reflect a definitive list of all potential needs of disadvantaged and low-income communities and low-income households, and items included in the list may not be applicable for a specific community.

California Air Resources Board

The benefit assessment tool is used to help decide if a project benefits a priority population. Administering agencies, applicants, and/or funding recipients use the tool to report on projects selected through a solicitation released after February 28, 2025.

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.

California Air Resources Board

Benefit Criteria Tables are used by administering agencies and applicants to determine if a project selected through a solicitation released on or before February 28, 2025 will meaningfully address an important community or household need and provide a benefit.

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

Agencies must submit project and program information through the California Climate Investments Reporting and Tracking System (CCIRTS), an online tracking tool.

California Air Resources Board

This user guide provides administering agencies with step-by-step guidance on how to report in CCIRTS.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

This document illustrates EPA’s spectrum of public involvement, which is characterized by five different “outcomes” that result from public involvement in agency decisions. It parallels the IAP2 Spectrum, but is tailored to the specific needs of a regulatory agency.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

This guide provides tools for public participation and public outreach in environmental decision-making. It will help you identify some of the best practices for planning, skills and behaviors that government agencies can use to design and implement a meaningful public participation program.

California Air Resources Board

Recommendations and lesson learned for incorporating community leadership into many different stages of a program or project.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

IAP2's Spectrum of Public Participation was designed to assist with the selection of the level of participation that defines the public's role in any public participation process.

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. 

California Strategic Growth Council

This toolkit is designed to support California state agencies and other public and private funders in developing technical assistance programs that make a meaningful difference in under-resourced communities. Due to historic and continued under-investment, under-resourced communities often lack the staff capacity, partnerships, or resources to secure competitive funding and implement projects and policies. Technical assistance and capacity building support can be pivotal in leveling the playing field and ensuring that State resources go to the communities that need them the most.

California Strategic Growth Council

If your organization isn’t ready yet to apply for a planning or implementation grant, find resources here to help you prepare for success. Through the Community Assistance for Climate Equity (CACE) suite of programs, SGC provides technical assistance and capacity building to help under-resourced communities access critical funding resources, implement high-impact projects, and enact community-led initiatives.

Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

This checklist is intended to assist State agencies to ensure that plans and investments identify and protect the State’s most vulnerable populations. This checklist can be used alongside any decision-making process to improve equitable outcomes.

California Strategic Growth Council

Lessons learned and recommendations from SGC and technical assistance providers to support capacity building efforts.

California Strategic Growth Council

The evaluation report uplifts the strengths of the California Climate Investments Technical Assistance Program to continue and replicate while also providing actionable recommendations to improve TA provision. Topics covered include equitable TA provision requires adaptability and cultural competency; capacity building is a core driver of community change; community engagement sustains TA impacts beyond the application cycle.

Department of Civil Rights

The California Department of Civil Rights investigates claims related to harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Read about how to file a complaint, responding to a complaint, possible outcomes, and more.

Department of Industrial Relations

Pre-apprenticeships and registered apprenticeships are overseen by DIR’s Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Learn how to become an apprentice or start an apprenticeship program.

Department of Industrial Relations

DIR oversees compliance with labor laws. Workers may report a violation to DIR. View laws, regulations, and policies and other resources for workers and employers.

Department of Industrial Relations

California employers have many different responsibilities under the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 and Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations. Learn about these employer responsibilities related to health and safety.

Department of Industrial Relations

CalOSHA oversees workplace safety. Learn about CalOSHA, access safety and health guidance and resources, and find information for workers and employers.

Department of Industrial Relations

DIR maintains authority over labor requirements related to public works. Learn more about public works and prevailing wage.

Department of Industrial Relations

The Public Works manual outlines requirements relating to public works and prevailing wage.

Department of Industrial Relations

The Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) posts prevailing wage determinations twice a year that regulate covered workers. View determinations and find answers to frequently asked questions.

California Workforce Development Board

Learn about the elements of a high-quality job and how high road training partnerships approach is creating a workforce development system that ensures job quality and an ecosystem of economic prosperity.

California Workforce Development Board

The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) includes job quality as one of the three elements of its High Road vision. Ranging from transportation to healthcare, hospitality to construction, the High Road approach embodies the sector strategy championed by the Board: industry partnerships that deliver equity, climate resilience, and job quality. Along with these program investments, CWDB is producing a body of policies and principles to guide alignment across the workforce and education system.

Learn about program and project evaluations and view examples of completed evaluations.