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Working With Labor Unions to Create a More Sustainable Future

Avalon Hoek Spaans, Assistant Director of Research at the Climate Jobs Insititute, shares what inspired them to seek a career focused on climate science, hoping to contribute to a more environmentally just and sustainable society.
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Working With Labor Unions to Create a More Sustainable Future

Climate Jobs Institute leads educational delegation to Denmark

Cornell ILR’s Climate Jobs Institute leads educational delegation of 30 New York State legislative and labor leaders to Denmark to learn from the nation’s world-leading efforts to build a clean energy economy.
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Climate Jobs Institute leads educational delegation to Denmark

Washington State Climate Jobs Report Released

The Evergreen State has positioned itself as a climate leader in America, but a new report from the ILR Climate Jobs Institute reveals there is much more to be done to ensure that its climate investments maximize high-quality job creation, equity and economic development.
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Washington State Climate Jobs Report Released

Denmark's lessons on the future of climate jobs

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Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat, and Lara Skinner, executive director of the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University's ILR School, share what they learned about creating good-paying jobs in the renewable energy sector during a visit to Denmark this summer.
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Denmark's lessons on the future of climate jobs

Maine governor reaches offshore wind deal with labor unions

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The Climate Jobs Institute Training and Education team legislative testimony workshops help lead to legislative wins in Maine.
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Maine governor reaches offshore wind deal with labor unions

Opinion: Employ vulnerable communities to build New York’s clean energy transition

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“The Cornell University Climate Jobs Institute delivers training for union members on climate change and clean energy, and connects policymakers with labor, environmental and industry leaders to navigate this historic transition,” says Dovan Lomax, Political Director, District Council 9 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) in NY.
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Opinion: Employ vulnerable communities to build New York’s clean energy transition

The Inflation Reduction Act will generate more than 1 million wind and solar jobs by 2035

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Most new climate jobs will be in manufacturing. “This is especially true for wind,” says Lara Skinner with Cornell’s Climate Jobs Institute. “It takes a lot of work to manufacture the component parts for an onshore or offshore wind turbine — and an offshore wind turbine, there’s about 8,000 parts.”
The Inflation Reduction Act will generate more than 1 million wind and solar jobs by 2035

Packman Named to Sustainability, Climate Justice Commission

Senior Research & Policy Development Associate Iris Packman of ILR’s Climate Jobs Institute will share her expertise with the Ithaca community.
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Packman Named to Sustainability, Climate Justice Commission

Cornell ILR Empire State Poll Shows New York State Residents, From Long Island to the North Country to Western NY, Support Strong Climate Action with High-Quality Job Creation

The Cornell ILR Empire State Poll (ESP) 2022 shows that over 68% of New York residents are concerned about the impacts of climate change and more than 70% of New Yorkers have been impacted by climate change in the past five years
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Cornell ILR Empire State Poll Shows New York State Residents, From Long Island to the North Country to Western NY, Support Strong Climate Action with High-Quality Job Creation

Skinner to deliver York University's GLRC 2023 John Eleen Annual Lecture in Global Labour

Skinner, Executive Director of the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell's ILR School, to deliver the keynote address for the 2023 John Eleen Annual Lecture in Global Labour, “Labour and the Climate Crisis: Developing a Worker- and Equity-Centered Clean Energy Economy,” for the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. 
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Skinner to deliver York University's GLRC 2023 John Eleen Annual Lecture in Global Labour

New Climate Jobs Institute Allows for Research Addressing Climate Change, Aims to Create More Jobs

The Industrial and Labor Relations School launched their Climate Jobs Institute on Jan. 25. The Institute will help New York state transition to a stronger clean energy economy by addressing the climate crisis and creating more jobs through continued cutting-edge research.
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New Climate Jobs Institute Allows for Research Addressing Climate Change, Aims to Create More Jobs

Relax, New Yorkers. Nobody’s Coming for Your Gas Stove.

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“We’re going to erode public support for this climate work if we’re not creating high-quality jobs and careers that are actually family and community sustaining,” says Lara Skinner, director of the Climate Jobs Institute.
Relax, New Yorkers. Nobody’s Coming for Your Gas Stove.

Climate Jobs Institute to Launch in New York City

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The ILR School Climate Jobs Institute, the first U.S. academic institution focused on conducting research and developing policy for governments across the nation to support clean energy targets, is launching Jan. 25 in New York City.
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Climate Jobs Institute to Launch in New York City

Climate Jobs Institute Launch Celebrated

Union leaders, elected officials, non-profit organizations and others across the nation are lauding the growth of the ILR School initiative.
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Climate Jobs Institute Launch Celebrated

An offshore wind project being built with union labor could be exactly what energy workers need

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“The majority of [wind-related] jobs are going to be in the manufacturing supply chain,” says Lara Skinner, so the country needs to prioritize the development of domestic renewable supply chains.
An offshore wind project being built with union labor could be exactly what energy workers need

Announcing Cornell ILR's New Climate Jobs Institute

Please join us for the launch of Cornell ILR’s new Climate Jobs Institute on Wednesday, January 25, 5-8 PM ET in New York City.
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Announcing Cornell ILR's New Climate Jobs Institute

Cunningham delivers multiple training sessions for members of Northern California’s SEIU Local 1021

Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate co-facilitates climate change training sessions for members of Northern California’s SEIU Local 1021.
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Cunningham delivers multiple training sessions for members of Northern California’s SEIU Local 1021

New report from Cornell’s Labor Leading on Climate team in collaboration with others provides a workers inquiry on how to decarbonize and diversify defense in the United States and the United Kingdom

Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate research team partners with other researchers at the University of Glasgow, California State University - Dominguez Hills, University of Bristol to explore, “How can we transition the defense sector towards environmental sustainability in the US and UK?”
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New report from Cornell’s Labor Leading on Climate team in collaboration with others provides a workers inquiry on how to decarbonize and diversify defense in the United States and the United Kingdom

Biden Promised “Good-Paying Union Jobs,” But It Will Take Organizing to Get Them

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"People have to see how building a new clean energy economy improves their lives, expands their access to jobs, increases their pay and benefits, protects and supports existing good jobs, lowers energy bills, expands prosperity and makes our communities healthier,” said Skinner at the Climate Jobs Summit.
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Biden Promised “Good-Paying Union Jobs,” But It Will Take Organizing to Get Them

Insight from the Equity In Focus Summit

Maral Asik, LLC's Student Research Fellow, shares insight on the green workforce from the Equity In Focus Summit, co-hosted by the Worker Institute and the US DoL Women’s Bureau.
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Insight from the Equity In Focus Summit

New York at Work 2022 Published

Research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues impacting New York’s workers, unions and employers are the focus of the ILR School’s second annual Labor Day report.
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New York at Work 2022 Published

After Successful Bike Parking Demo, DOT is Rightfully Being Asked, ‘What Now?’

A recent study by Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate recommends converting 5 percent of street parking spaces into 150,000 sheltered bike parking spaces by 2025.
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After Successful Bike Parking Demo, DOT is Rightfully Being Asked, ‘What Now?’

Skinner Speaks at the 2022 WSLC Constitutional Convention

“There is great potential to grow a pro-union climate plan in Washington that addresses the climate crisis at scale and grows and builds the labor movement,” said Lara Skinner, Director of the Labor Leading on Climate program at Cornell.
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Skinner Speaks at the 2022 WSLC Constitutional Convention

Changing Power Sources Starts With Changing Minds

Melanie La Rosa discusses the relevance of the Climate for Change: A Complete Climate Jobs Roadmap for New York City report as an opportunity "to a climate labor force [that] could spur thousands of new jobs,” in her recent OpEd.
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Changing Power Sources Starts With Changing Minds

When Data Works: Creating High-Quality Green Jobs

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?
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When Data Works: Creating High-Quality Green Jobs

LLC participates in UALE’s first-ever Northeast Regional Gathering

Labor Leading on Climate team’s Zach Cunningham, the regional representative to UALE’s Board, led efforts to organize the event and Director, Lara Skinner, participates in panel discussion.
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LLC participates in UALE’s first-ever Northeast Regional Gathering

Labor unions' climate agenda for City Hall includes cutting school emissions, adding bike lanes

“We are really thinking about how do we take on climate change at scale and the pace that science demands,” said Lara Skinner, Director of Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate program.
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Labor unions' climate agenda for City Hall includes cutting school emissions, adding bike lanes

New Report from Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate Provides Roadmap to Exceed NYC Climate Goals, Create Over 1 Million Jobs

A new report released today by Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate in collaboration with the Climate Jobs NY coalition outlines a comprehensive climate jobs action plan for NYC to fight the climate crisis, make NYC safer and address racial and economic inequity by investing in a pro-worker renewable energy transition.
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New Report from Cornell's Labor Leading on Climate Provides Roadmap to Exceed NYC Climate Goals, Create Over 1 Million Jobs

LLC facilitates “Carbon Free & Healthy Schools” training for union members in NYC

Zach Cunningham, Associate for the Worker Institute, and Tory Kaso, Campaign Director for Climate Jobs NY, helped NYC union members learn more about the Carbon Free & Healthy Schools campaign
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LLC facilitates “Carbon Free & Healthy Schools” training for union members in NYC

Cornell extension faculty member awarded 2022 Public Voices on the Climate Crisis Fellowship

Anita Raman, LLC's Research and Policy Development Associate, is one of twenty national leaders selected to be a 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis. This program is administered by the Yale Program on Climate Communication and the OpEd Project national Public Voices initiative. 
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Cornell extension faculty member awarded 2022 Public Voices on the Climate Crisis Fellowship