Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

RMI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit that transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to align with a 1.5°C future and secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all. We work in the world’s most critical geographies and engage businesses, policymakers, communities, and nongovernmental organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 percent by 2030. Since our co-founding by Amory Lovins, RMI’s chairman emeritus, we have grown to over 600 experts working on four continents.

 What we do

RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis. We work with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030.

For over 40 years, RMI has utilized our unique techno-economic expertise and whole-systems thinking to publish groundbreaking research and analysis. We bring together collaborations of rare reach, range and expertise—creating unconventional partnerships and mobilizing action to drive change on the massive scale needed to combat the climate crisis.

Our work:

• Carbon-Free Buildings

• Carbon-Free Electricity

• Carbon-Free Transportation

• China Program

• Climate Finance

• Climate-Aligned Industries

• Climate Intelligence

• Global South

• India Program

• Strategic Insights

• Technology & Innovation

• Urban Transformation

• US Program

Books published by RMI include:

• Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security (2005) ISBN 1-84407-194-4 (Available Online in PDF)

• Small is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (2003) ISBN 1-881071-07-3

• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (2000) ISBN 1-85383-763-6

• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011) ISBN 978-1-60358-371-8.

For our offices in Bolder CO, New York, Washington D.C., Oakland CA, and Beijing.