Climate for Change: A Climate Jobs Program for New York City

By The Worker Institute, Cornell University

In partnership with Cornell University, Climate Jobs NY released “Climate for Change, a Climate Jobs Program for New York City,” representing labor’s climate jobs agenda for New York City.

The report examines the impact of climate breakdown and the pandemic on NYC workers and frontline communities, and offers a suite of policy recommendations to build an equitable clean energy economy that tackles climate change and racial and economic inequality.

REPORT: Building a Just Transition for a Resilient Future: A Climate Jobs Progam for Rhode Island

By The Worker Institute, Cornell University

Authored by researchers at Cornell University, the report Building a Just Transition for a Resilient Future: A Climate Jobs Program for Rhode Island examines the climate crisis in Rhode Island and outlines a set of high-impact climate jobs recommendations that maximize the state’s actions towards creating thousands of good-paying, high-quality jobs that help reverse inequality, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and meet the state’s Act on Climate targets, and Investing in infrastructure that will make Rhode Island communities healthier, more resilient, and more equitable.

MEMO: The Financial Case for Net-Zero Energy Schools

By UndauntedK12 and CJNRC

Every year, states and local governments invest approximately $110 billion in constructing, modernizing, operating, and maintaining school buildings. Investments in school facilities deliver proven and profound benefits to student health, thinking, and performance. Decision-makers guiding investment in school facilities require an up-to-date understanding of building technology, evolving building standards, and the cost of delivering the school facilities needed for the 21st century. This brief presents the available evidence on the cost associated with net-zero energy schools.

REPORT: Powering the Clean Energy Future: A Climate Jobs Program for Illinois

By The Worker Institute, Cornell University

Climate Jobs Illinois’ 10-point plan provides the blueprint for achieving a 100% clean energy economy by 2050 with a pro-worker agenda that will ensure a cleaner, fairer future for all Illinoisans. Illinois can act now to protect our communities from the worst effects of climate change while also fighting against growing economic inequality. We can do that through union-led initiatives that create good-paying jobs on projects that reduce emissions and infuse new power generation sources into our economy.

REPORT: Combatting Climate Change, Reversing Inequality: A Climate Jobs Program for Texas

By The Worker Institute, Cornell University

Given the large size of its population, economy, and greenhouse gas emissions, advancing a “climate jobs” program in Texas has the potential for significant, positive impacts. Well-known for its oil and gas industry for decades, Texas now has the opportunity to become the world’s leader in building an economy that tackles climate change, reduces pollution, creates many high-quality jobs in new clean energy sectors, and creates more resilient and equitable communities.

REPORT: How State and Local Governments Can Make Climate Jobs Good Jobs

By David Madland and Terry Meginniss  

Tackling climate change will require state and local action alongside federal policy change. State and local policymakers can ensure that good jobs are created in the new clean economy by focusing on five proven job-quality strategies.