Climate & Community Institute

We are a progressive climate and economic policy think tank developing cutting-edge research. find us on bluesky at cplusc🌱

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

NEW: Climate policies must urgently deliver for working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. Today, we're releasing Immediate Relief, a series of policy proposals to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access. 🧵

[Truthout @truthout]

Support for climate action tied to the economy was also visible in the results of state-level ballot initiatives.

https://t.co/I3BNhux9N8

[Rithika Ramamurthy @rithika_ram]

Not only does @cplusci have data to disprove this, we’ve been talking about why green economic populism can win for years.

Many candidates avoided the climate vs economy trap. Connecting them and taking on fossil fuels as a driver of economic crisis is how we recenter climate!

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

https://t.co/nM8J9umTLl

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

The Guardian covered our new analysis of the US midterm elections. We found that candidates who championed Green Economic Populism won 70 percent of their races. Link below 🔗

[Rithika Ramamurthy @rithika_ram]

The centrist consultants and oil and gas shills have been telling us for years to stay silent on climate because it’s unpopular.

They’re wrong. Our analysis of last night’s results shows that candidates across the US embedded green policy in economic populism—and won. Link 👇

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

The affordability and climate crises are compounding problems, and this incoming class of GEP Champions is positioned to start tackling them. Read our full analysis: https://t.co/0VFgC3M871

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

BREAKING: The 2026 midterms exposed an emerging pathway for a new type of climate politics. We scored every candidate for House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Those who tied climate to cost of living did well up and down the ballot. Our analysis below 🧵

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

Voters sent a clear message on data centers. All measures that have been called went against them.

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

@politico https://t.co/lI536d43m4

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

PowerNYC, the public renewable energy developer we proposed for the City of New York, would deliver affordability, stability, and climate leadership in a time of overlapping crises. More from @politico:

[The NYS Tenant Bloc @TenantBloc]

With rising costs of living and inflation, tenants ALREADY can’t afford the rent. That’s why we fought for a historic rent freeze. To protect tenants from rent hikes and give us the stability we deserve.

[New York City Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum]

In a new report, @jasonskowalski & @johannabozuwa make the case for a new public renewable energy developer in New York to deliver the clean energy projects that markets alone are failing to provide

(link in thread)

[Emily Gallagher @EmilyAssembly]

Creating a public renewable energy developer in NYC wouldn't just help fight climate change—it would also help fix our utility affordability crisis.

This type of coordinated planning and investment around large, thorny problems is what govt is for.
https://t.co/z2bawi4zqC

[Public Power NY @publicpowerny]

New Yorkers are facing an energy crisis. Mayor Mamdani can help solve it.

Our new report shows the public sector doesn’t just have a role to play — it has an opportunity to lead. Public power means a more affordable, reliable, sustainable New York. PowerNYC can build it.

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

Read our report to see how a public bank could provide residents with a durable financial institution capable of supporting affordable housing, local business development, climate action, and community wealth building over the long term: https://t.co/NGe3qtPCKp

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

🌉 NEW: We ran a simulation of a public bank in San Francisco and found that it would generate $607M in housing bridge loans, leveraging more than $1B in total affordable housing financing and supporting the development of ~5,000–6,000 affordable housing units. More below.

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

Our researchers created a model of a fairly conservative public bank and ran it 1,000 times over a ten-year period. They found that it would provide ~$331M in clean energy loans, guarantee ~1,200 small business loans totaling more than $60M, and return ~$2.3M to depositors and bondholders.
https://t.co/bYuvbWXvDc