June 2023

[POLL] Voters Support Offshore Wind, Strong Labor Standards

Voters in key states overwhelmingly support building offshore wind energy with strong labor standards, including paying living wages and good benefits, according to a new poll released today by the Climate Jobs National Resource Center and conducted by Impact Research.

March 2022

[REPORT] Building Good Local Jobs on Utility-Scale Clean Energy Projects in Wisconsin

Midwest Economic Policy Institute (MEPI) and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

This report provides data on the impacts of high-road labor standards.

March 2022

[REPORT] Maine’s Climate Jobs Report

The Worker Institute, Cornell University

This report outlines intersecting crises and then offers a series of “climate jobs” recommendations for Maine – a set of bold, science-based strategies that will reduce greenhouse gas missions and pollution at scale, create thousands of high-quality jobs, and build more resilient, equitable communities in Maine.

February 2022

[REPORT] Climate for Change: A Climate Jobs Program for New York City

The Worker Institute, Cornell University

This 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.

February 2022

[MEMO] The Financial Case for Net-Zero Energy Schools

UndauntedK12 and CJNRC

This memo presents the available evidence on the cost associated with net-zero energy schools.

January 2022

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

The Worker Institute, Cornell University

This report 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 union jobs that help reverse inequality and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

October 2021

[REPORT] Capturing the Sun

Forward Analytics

This report explores the economic benefits of using local workers on Wisconsin solar projects.

September 2021

[VIDEO] 2021 Climate Jobs Summit

Labor leaders from around the country come together and speak on the urgent important of good union jobs in the renewable energy sector.

September 2021

[VIDEO] Labor is Leading: Building the Climate Jobs Movement Now

Hear from labor leaders, and members, some of whom work on the frontlines of climate change, about the urgency of building a new renewable energy industry powered by good, family-sustaining union jobs.

July 2021

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

The Worker Institute, Cornell University

This report examines the crises of inequality and climate change in Texas and makes a series of “climate jobs” recommendations that can help Texas simultaneously combat climate change, create high-quality jobs, and build more equitable and resilient communities.

October 2020

[FACT SHEET] How State and Local Governments Can Make Climate Jobs Good Jobs

 

Overview of policy recommendations from Center for American Progress report, “How State and Local Government Can Make Climate Jobs Good Jobs.”

June 2017

[REPORT] Reversing Inequity, Combatting Climate Change: A Climate Jobs Program for New York State

The Worker Institute, Cornell University ILR School

This report presents recommendations aimed to create good, high-road jobs that provide family-sustaining wages and benefits for communities across the state.