CLPP's work has covered a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from international (e.g., protecting the human rights of communities particularly vulnerable to climate impacts) to state-level climate policy. CLPP's current focus is formulating and promoting "action policies" -- climate policies that direct expenditures by emitters towards driving actions that cost-effectively achieve emission reductions.

Such approaches could include:

• Cap-and-invest: cap-and-trade mechanisms that use revenues from allowance sales to cost-effectively achieve additional reductions

• Carbon fee-and-invest: carbon fee programs that invest revenues to achieve additional reductions, ideally via cost-effective mechanisms such as reverse auctions

• Climate emission reduction targets: relative emission reduction targets that require emitters to achieve or acquire a certain amount of reductions for every ton emitted

These approaches represent ways that jurisdictions large and small can achieve greater emission reductions at lower cost.

Publications

• Cap-and-Invest for Maryland: A Primer (2024), CLPP white paper

• Revenue Use Matters (2018), in the Environmental Law Institute's The Environmental Forum

• Carrot and Stick: Using Both Carbon Prices & Revenues to Drive Emission Reductions (2017), CLPP white paper

• Using "Action Caps" to Boost Ambition and Lower Costs for Clean Power Plan Compliance (2016), CLPP white paper

• Accelerating Decarbonization with 'Action' Policies (2015), CLPP discussion draft

• Climate Emission Reduction Targets: A Brief Overview (2013), CLPP white paper

• Action Targets: A Brief Overview (2009), CLPP white paper