Growing momentum for decentralized climate policy and the falling costs of low‐carbon technologies are creating new climate change mitigation opportunities for subnational actors. Here we discuss how research can best support these subnational efforts to allow limited resources to stretch further. To stimulate this discussion, we identify four research priorities. (1) Innovation mechanisms examines local policy opportunities for technology improvement to achieve high returns on investments. (2) Co‐benefits analyzes the non‐climate benefits of emissions reductions to highlight how local policies can affect communities directly. (3) Emissions monitoring develops rapid, low‐cost, local measurement strategies to allow communities to assess and weigh in on the emissions impacts of local energy systems. (4) Decision levers reframes large‐scale analyses into more targeted and actionable metrics for local policy decisions. This piece was informed and inspired by a set of interviews we conducted with representatives in business, government, NGOs, and educational institutions actively engaged in local climate action, and by our own research.

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支持地方气候政策的研究重点

权力下放的气候政策势头不断增长，低碳技术成本不断下降，这为地方行动者创造了新的缓解气候变化的机会。在这里，我们讨论研究如何最好地支持这些地方政府的工作，以使有限的资源得到进一步扩展。为了激发这一讨论，我们确定了四个研究重点。（1）创新机制研究了地方政策改进技术的机会，以实现高投资回报。（2）共同效益分析了减排的非气候效益，以强调地方政策如何直接影响社区。（3）排放监测制定了快速，低成本的本地测量策略，以使社区能够评估并权衡当地能源系统的排放影响。（4）决策杠杆将大规模分析重构为更具针对性和可操作性的指标，以用于本地政策决策。这是我们与积极参与当地气候行动的企业，政府，非政府组织和教育机构的代表进行的一系列访谈以及我们自己的研究所启发和启发的。