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 …
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.
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 …
How are transportation dollars flowing in your state?
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 …
Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction
Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …
School Solar Ownership Models
Public schools anchor entire communities. Schools are where students spend the majority of their childhoods outside of the home, workplaces for more than 6 million people, …
Restoring trust at COP29
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) will begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11, 2024. 197 countries and the EU will meet to “significantly enhance …