Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna
Vienna is the global capital of social housing. Over 40 percent of the city’s housing units are social housing, providing homes for the majority of the …
Our Research
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.
Transformative Biodiversity Policy at a Stalemate
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 …
New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores
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 …
Indebting the Green Transition
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 …
Public School Property Conversions
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 …
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good
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 …
Getting off Gas: Improving Fossil Gas Regulation Now for a Post-fossil Fuel Future
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 …
The Climate Crisis and the US War Machine
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. …
Shared Fates: Rising Insurance Costs in Louisiana
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 …
Jobs for More Mobility and Less Mining
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 …
