May 12, 2023 • Report

We Choose Now: Gulf to Appalachia Climate Action Strategy

Fossil Fuel Phaseout • Labor

At this moment, the United States is advancing sweeping federal actions that could fund critical climate solutions or sink us further towards climate disaster. However, the …

May 2, 2023 • Blog

Lessons from the study of redlining and health for green housing investment

Nick Graetz, Michael Esposito

Fellow Spotlight • Green Social Housing • Racial Justice

Across academic disciplines and mainstream media, the framing of contemporary inequalities as a direct result of “redlining” has exploded over the past few years. Redlining is …

April 10, 2023 • Brief

Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions

Patrick Bigger, Jesse Strecker

Green Industrial Policy

After forty years of neoliberal environmental and economic policy dominance, industrial policy is back at the center of agendas around the world. In the US, industrial …

March 29, 2023 • Press Release

New Report: Building Public Renewables in the United States

New York is on the precipice of passing landmark investments in public renewables — the United States should follow suit and move beyond tax incentives to …

March 15, 2023 • Press Release

New Report: Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply Side Action

A report on why green-lighting fossil fuel development like the Willow Project hurts the United States’ economy and climate, with ten policies to actively manage the …

March 11, 2023 • Brief

Blended Finance

Patrick Bigger

International Financial Architecture

Blended finance has become a dominant paradigm in development and environmental finance over the last 15 years. The main idea is that scarce public resources will …

March 11, 2023 • Report

An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply Side Policy 

Mark Paul, Lina Moe

Fossil Fuel Phaseout

Until the rise of the Green New Deal, economists’ favored response to the climate crisis was some form of carbon pricing—leveraging the market to produce positive …

March 11, 2023 • Report

Building Public Renewables in the United States

Johanna Bozuwa, Sarah Knuth, Grayson Flood, Patrick Robbins, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Fossil Fuel Phaseout • Utilities

We propose a new Federal Public Power Program that would create a public option for renewable energy across the United States that can catalyze decarbonization and …

March 1, 2023 • In the News

The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance

Publication: Dissent

February 11, 2023 • Brief

Green Bonds

Patrick Bigger

International Financial Architecture

Green Bonds have been promoted as a financial tool for development banks and countries across the Global South to access money for climate action. But as …