Climate and Community Institute (CCI) creates research that connects issues that dominate our political economy directly with the climate crisis. We lay the groundwork for ambitious and creative climate goals in the near term, and build the vision for a just, decarbonized future.
This study updates our research that shows how governments—highly constrained by financial and political conditions to implement a just ecological transition—are “Exporting Extinction.” The briefing reports …
The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 million people in the United States to skip meals, eat less, and trade down to lower quality …
Discussions about the sovereign debt-climate crisis nexus are grinding on in formal spaces like the United Nations and World Bank, but systemic and transformative change appears …
School district leaders across the country are panicked about their budgets. From Boston to Wichita to Los Angeles, school district officials are projecting deficits. Given that …
The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …
The United States’ extensive fossil gas infrastructure is characterized by greenhouse gas emissions, methane leaks, and explosions that imperil lives, disproportionately affect the health and well-being …
Warmaking, and the industries that supply and profit from it, fuels the climate crisis. Only a reparative approach can begin to reverse militarization and environmental breakdown. …
To understand how the home insurance crisis is affecting households across the state, we compared price quotes for a hypothetical private insurance policy that we standardized …
The urgency of eliminating emissions from the transportation sector–the number one source of U.S. carbon emissions–intensifies with every day of inaction. Some climate advocates believe that …
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dedicated $643 billion to surface transportation over a five year period. Roughly two thirds of that investment goes to …
