Community Benefits Agreements
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements (CBAs) to exert control over their futures. When communities get organized early, know …
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.
Insurers of Last Resort: Why Today’s FAIR Plans Need a Redesign to Address the Home Insurance Crisis
As extreme weather escalates, insurance prices balloon, and insurance companies refuse to renew existing policies or write new ones, insurers of last resort increasingly provide the …
Green Industrial Policy Needs a New Financial Architecture
One of the biggest obstacles for enacting green industrial policy (GIP), particularly for fiscally constrained countries in the Global South, is financing it. This is especially …
Global Green Industrial Policy
Amidst overlapping environmental and economic crises, green industrial policy (GIP) is playing an increasingly salient role in global politics. But conceptions of what GIP is—or what …
Penalized: The Hidden Cost of Credit Score in Homeowners Insurance Premiums
New research from Consumer Federation of America and Climate and Community Institute shows that a typical homeowner with a low credit score will pay nearly $2,000 …
Letting People Move
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …
Transforming the Housing Sector with Green Industrial Policy
Read our series featuring labor, public sector, and green innovation experts on the need for a green industrial policy for housing: We Need a Green Industrial …
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 …
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 …
