Climate and Community Institute

Report

PowerNYC Development Corporation

The climate and economic case for establishing a public renewable developer in New York City

Series

Immediate Relief

Policies to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access

Report

Cheated by Car Dependence: Drivers and Nondrivers in the United States

Car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped

Report

The Black Box of Utility Capital Expenditure

How utilities are profiting off of AI expansion and climate disaster and saddling ratepayers with the bill

Report

AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet

The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.

Resource

In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements to exert control over their futures. When communities get organized early, know their rights and opportunities, and work in coalition, they have the power to shape the political economy of the energy transition.

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Fast and Free: How Better Buses Can Lower Costs and Cut Emissions Across the United States

Fast and free buses can lower costs for working people, and get them where they need to go more quickly and comfortably, while investing in high-quality public goods, cutting carbon pollution, and improving air quality.

Brief

Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation

Public housing should be a central pillar of a progressive supply-side housing agenda to preserve deeply affordable housing, expand public development, and help spur market transformation for a green transition.

Report

Insurance: The Hidden Market Force Threatening Affordable Housing

Increasing insurance costs are making an already painful housing affordability crisis even worse. Interventions are needed to put the public sector in the driver’s seat.

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Beyond Extractivism

Structural economic transformation is necessary to confront the continued growth of resource extraction that threatens ecosystems and rights.

The Climate and Community Institute (CCI) is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions.

About us

Our staff and network of over 60 academics and experts produce cutting-edge research on the intersections of climate, economy, and everyday life. We help progressive movements design and win a transformative agenda to rapidly decarbonize the economy, protect communities from climate disasters, and materially benefit working people. To win on climate long-term, we fight for climate policy you can touch.

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