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Search below for resources covering the intersection of climate engagement, social science and data analytics.

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Blueprint 2.0: New Lessons for Climate Coalitions

Jack Zhou, Climate Advocacy Lab
Research & Articles
10-14-2025

Climate coalition work is still hard, so we want to help you out. Join the Climate Advocacy Lab as we premiere the Second Edition of the Blueprint for a Multiracial, Cross-Class Climate Movement Report and Workbook.

Research & Articles
06-10-2025

Join Maine People’s Resource Center, New Jersey Resource Project, the New Conversation Initiative, People’s Action Institute and the Climate Advocacy Lab to learn about two deep canvassing campaigns launched in 2024 to build support for offshore wind in coastal communities in Maine and New Jersey.

Research & Articles
04-30-2025

A report discussing clean energy job trends under the new Administration, with an emphasis on job decline in states and key districts where Inflation Reduction Act investments have been distributed. Climate Power estimates more than 600 jobs have been lost or jeopardized per day under Trump's first 100 days. The end of the first quarter of 2025 marked the first quarter since 2022 that clean energy job creation declined, ending two and a half years of consistent job growth. This report also discusses the harmful impacts of job declines and stalled or canceled clean energy investments, and what's at stake if these trends continue.

Energy Project Benefits Repository

California Forward (CAFWD)
Tips & How-Tos
01-01-2025

The Energy Project Benefits Repository includes 328 project benefits agreements from across the energy supply chain, from mining to manufacturing to energy generation, and across global geographies.

CBARC New Flyer Case Study

Athena Nicole Last, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Jay Mehta Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center
Research & Articles
01-01-2025

The case study focuses on the 2022 multi-state community benefits agreement (CBA) signed between New Flyer, the largest electric transit bus manufacturer in North America; Jobs to Move America; and the Alabama Coalition of Community Benefits. The CBA encompasses New Flyer facilities in Anniston, Alabama and Ontario, California, but the report focuses on the Alabama facility.

Americans strongly support the recently announced American Climate Corps. The new American Climate Corps is a major step in the fight for our nation’s future and for a Green New Deal. The American Climate Corps is overwhelmingly popular across age and political party, and supported by 71 percent of voters — including more than half of Republicans. The support grows even stronger among voters under the age of 59.

Research & Articles
05-01-2023

Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers. The uncertain labor conditions of the Inflation Reduction Act make it all the more important that labor and climate organizers remain engaged with the process of implementing the new law. State and local organizing can also be more effective in bridging the tension between fossil fuel workers and climate policies. In addition to state and local organizing, another logical step to strengthen labor-climate advocacy is for more environmental and climate organizations to support legislative reforms to make organizing easier, such as the PRO Act. Ending fossil fuel use will require building power through multi-issue, broad-based coalitions—we are stronger together.

Research & Articles
03-15-2023

Cross sectional survey of 1,635 non-management oil and gas workers in the US revealed new insights and key themes relevant to a truly "just transition" from fossil fuels, including: