Climate & 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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Transportation is the number one source of carbon emissions in the United States– making the sector crucial to decarbonize quickly to limit the climate crisis. States …
For the first time, there are potential decisions by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that address the connections …
Debt swaps aim to alleviate these pressures by offering some level of debt relief in return for commitments to devote freed up financial resources toward achieving …
Water is life, but it is also big business. Over the last 20 years activists and scholars have noted an alarming rise in the financialization of …