The Global Clean Investment Monitor tracks global and country-level investment in the manufacturing and deployment of clean energy technologies.
Many major economies see domestic manufacturing of clean energy and transportation technology as a powerful driver of economic growth, important to national security objectives, or necessary to sustained political support for related policies. Governments in the US, China, and Europe all provide fiscal or other policy support to spur both the manufacturing of those technologies and the demand needed to sustain domestic industries. This support improves the politics of clean energy and transportation policy domestically, expands clean technology production capacity globally, and accelerates the clean energy transition.
As these industries mature, new international trade and cross-border investment tensions between major economies will emerge. Governments are increasingly concerned about the security and resilience of clean energy supply chains and the need to counter the economic influence of their competitors through trade and overseas investment. Navigating these economic and security concerns while maintaining global climate cooperation and ensuring developing countries receive the support they need to decarbonize affordably will be critical to the success of the global clean energy transition.
For the past two years, the US Clean Investment Monitor (CIM)—a joint project of Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)—has provided a comprehensive, real-time source of information on investment in the manufacture and deployment of clean energy technologies in the US. The CIM provides timely insights into the state of the US clean energy transition and the impact of relevant policy on clean energy deployment and local economic development.
Rhodium and MIT-CEEPR are now developing a new Global Clean Investment Monitor (GCIM) to track global investment in the manufacturing and deployment of clean energy technologies. The GCIM will provide policymakers and investors with up-to-date information on the manufacturing and deployment of clean energy technologies, including data on manufacturing investments at various stages of completion, estimated annual production capacity by country, current and projected country-level demand, and public subsidies.
In the first report of the Global Clean Investment Monitor series, we explore how—after decades of national policy support, primarily in the US, China, and Europe—electric vehicles and batteries have been catapulted into mass commercialization.
Read the reportAll data from the first GCIM report on electric vehicles and batteries are available through the ClimateDeck data platform—a partnership of Rhodium Group and Breakthrough Energy. The ClimateDeck offers global and US 50-state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories and projections, energy market outlooks, clean investment tracking, and analysis of energy and climate policy developments. The platform equips users with comprehensive datasets, dynamic insights, and a robust set of tools for tracking pathways to climate targets and understanding the implications of major developments at the international, national, and state levels. The ClimateDeck data platform includes filters that enable users to customize datasets by region, technology, or policy scenario—helping to tailor insights to meet specific use cases. All data is accessible and free to explore, download, and analyze offline, and users can export graphics for presentations and reports.
Beyond data, the ClimateDeck provides access to Rhodium’s library of research, including featured analysis and key insights from our flagship publications. The GCIM features data and analysis from several of those Rhodium publications, all of which are available in full from the ClimateDeck. They include:
The annual Rhodium Climate Outlook provides insights into what climate future the world is on track for, by integrating probabilistic energy and GHG emissions outcomes with a climate model to generate probabilistic temperature rise estimates incorporating climate system uncertainty. Based on Rhodium’s Global Energy Model (RHG-GEM), the RCO considers a wide range of uncertainties underpinning the global energy system, providing a robust and systematic exploration of the main drivers of regional energy demand, technology deployment, and resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
Each year, Rhodium releases Taking Stock, our projections of US GHG emissions under current federal and state policy, to provide a baseline against which to assess additional potential policy action. Based on Rhodium’s flagship US economy-wide emissions model (RHG-NEMS), projects energy supply, demand, and emissions under physical, economic, and policy constraints. The model also estimates non-energy-related emissions, providing full accounting for all six categories of GHGs, and state-level results for key metrics.
The Clean Investment Monitor (CIM), a joint project of Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), tracks public and private investments in the manufacturing and deployment of the full landscape of climate technologies in the US. Through this data and analysis, the CIM provides insights into investment trends, the effects of federal and state policies, and on-the-ground progress in the US towards net-zero GHG emissions, plus a comprehensive catalog of project announcements and investments.
The ClimateDeck—a partnership of Rhodium Group and Breakthrough Energy—provides global and US 50-state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory data and projections, energy market outlooks, and analysis of energy and climate policy developments.
Rhodium’s Global Energy Model (RHG-GEM) provides a robust and systematic exploration of the main drivers of regional energy demand, technology deployment, and resulting greenhouse gas emissions through the end of the century.
The US Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project with MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, tracks public and private investments in the full landscape of climate technologies in the United States.
