The Climate Jobs Institute is guiding the nation’s transition to a strong, equitable, and resilient clean energy economy by pursuing three aims: to tackle the climate crisis; to create high-quality jobs; and to build a diverse, inclusive workforce.
The Climate Jobs Institute launches a publicly available tool on IRA manufacturing investments in New York State to understand investment impacts on local jobs.
Mapping Construction Apprenticeships in New York State
The Climate Jobs Institute launches tools on joint labor-management apprenticeship training centers in New York, aiming to provide information on training infrastructure throughout the state that can help power the clean energy economy.
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
Scaling the US OSW Supply Chain with a Global Perspective
Avalon Hoek Spaans, Cornell ILR outreach extension faculty member with help from their student research assistant Scott Siegel advised a group of Columbia Climate School graduate students on how to answer the question: “How can offshore wind deployment in the US be accelerated while ensuring local high-quality job creation?”
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?
NYC DOE Public School Dashboard shows climate and childhood health inequities across the five boroughs
You can now explore every NYC Department of Education Public School by City Council District. Users can view individual school building characteristics and trends across districts and boroughs, thanks to Labor Leading on Climate Research Associate Anita Raman.
Estimating and Understanding Bridgeport Public School Emissions through a Carbon-Free Healthy Schools Tool
Researchers from the Labor Leading on Climate team in collaboration with Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs recently developed a geospatial dashboard to analyze Bridgeport Public School District environmental health issues while calculating potential emissions. This tool was made to support the Connecticut Carbon-Free Healthy School initiative.
How New York State Can Tackle Climate Change, Reverse Inequality and Build a Robust, Equitable Clean Energy Economy
New York state has a generational opportunity to “build back better” from the COVID-19
pandemic, reduce inequality through high-quality job creation and tackle the accelerating climate
crisis. Meeting this moment will require large, strategic investments in clean energy, with strong
labor standards and community benefits.
UN calls IPCC climate report ‘code red for humanity’ -- how an equitable, resilient, climate jobs movement can save us
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.
Labor Changes the Climate: New Policies Move States Forward
The Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate team surveys various state-level efforts to tackle climate change with high-quality, union job creation.
The Worker Institute'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.
Four policy recommendations for New York State to beat back inequality and climate change
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.
Labor Leading on Climate: Creating Good Jobs While Combating Climate Change
Skinner chairs the Labor Leading on Climate Initiative while serving as associate director of The Worker Institute. She co-authored the preliminary recommendations for an upcoming report, “Reversing Inequality, Combatting Climate Change: A Climate Jobs Program for New York State.”