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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
