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Climate Jobs Institute Hosts Panel on “Key Interventions: How We Can Still Achieve Our Climate, Jobs, and Equity Mandates” at 2025 SOMOS Conference

Skinner joins Climate One to discuss how worker-centered climate policy can support union jobs in the clean energy transition. Citing successes in NY and IL, she highlights the importance of labor-led climate coalitions and calls for expanding these state-level models nationwide to align climate action with economic and job equity.

"The Biden-Harris Administration recently announced the eight awardees of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which provides financial support to help communities across the US build reliable, affordable, clean energy systems. These funds will help create good-paying jobs and enable low-income and historically disadvantaged communities to lead in the energy transition."

The vision for a green economy is not just about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it is about creating long-term peace and sustainability and correcting issues of systemic inequality that have long contributed to economic, health, and social disparities, says Alex Foley, Research Support Specialist at the Climate Jobs Institute.

Zach Cunningham, Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate (LLC), Training & Education Associate, reflects on his year-long leadership development program with Cornell’s National Labor Leadership Initiative and how he will apply his learnings within the LLC program.

Anita Raman, Cornell's Research and Policy Development Associate, explores the big questions: How can we maximize emissions reductions to create the greenest jobs? How do we make sure these are high-quality jobs? How can we use data to achieve these outcomes?

On Friday, March 4, researchers from Cornell University joined with leaders of the Climate Jobs RI coalition, a group of labor, climate, and community groups in Rhode Island, and discussed a new report unveiled last month that outlined a comprehensive action plan for RI.

Cornell’s Labor Leading on Climate research team addresses findings from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and highlights the opportunity for workers and their unions to tackle climate change and reverse inequality through high-quality, union job creation.

The Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate team surveys various state-level efforts to tackle climate change with high-quality, union job creation.

Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate team examines the American Jobs Plan and explains why the built-in labor standards are critical to the proposal’s success.

Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate research team provides insight into the PRO Act and the climate crises.

Cornell’s Labor Leading on Climate research team makes recommendations for NYS policy intervention. It will not be easy to tackle climate change -- but New Yorkers don’t shy away from a fight. Reducing inequality and creating meaningful high-impact Climate Jobs through strategic planning and having strong labor standards.

The U.S. Can Build the Largest Offshore Wind Industry in the World with a Commitment to Ambitious Climate Action, Racial Justice, and Good Jobs

The triple crises of COVID-19, climate change and soaring inequality present a moment of great peril and opportunity for the U.S.