Across the globe, policies once dismissed as impossible have been implemented. To get America out of its post-pandemic slump, bold thinking is essential.
Read more
Climate Justice
In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Latest Work
Virtual Poor People’s Campaign Rally Draws Crowd of More Than a Million
Through personal testimonies of systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism, the event brought the campaign’s bold fusion agenda to new audiences.
Read more
Cyclone Amphan Is a Warning for the United States
The storm ravaged India and Bangladesh all the worse because of social and economic inequality. The same, or worse, could happen here.
Read more
Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform
Why the IPS Climate Policy Program Supports a People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy.
Read more
Change Finance, Not the Climate
How to get money out of fossil fuels — and into a Green New Deal.
Read more
Coronavirus Denial and Climate Denial Have One Thing in Common: Greed
Despite 100,000 confirmed US coronavirus deaths, powerful economic interests are fighting to reopen the country prematurely — no matter the cost to workers.
Read more
Fossil Fuel Bailouts Are Class War. This Is How We Fight Back
When it comes to distributing financial support, the federal government should be propping up those who need it most.
Read more
The U.S. Military Is a Major Polluter, but ‘Greening’ the Military Is Not the Solution
Instead of greenwashing the military, let’s close unneeded domestic and overseas bases, end all U.S. wars, and cut weapons manufacturing.
Read more
Congress: Public Transit Is Essential. It Needs Emergency Funding Now.
The IPS Climate Policy Program is joining over 70 other organizations to call for increased federal funding for public transit.
Read more
Congress: Put Workers and Communities First, Not Corporate Polluters
The IPS Climate Policy Program and 339 other organizations are calling on Congress to support ordinary people through this crisis, not the fossil fuel industry.
Read moreIPS Projects
Reports
Change Finance, Not the Climate
How to get money out of fossil fuels — and into a Green New Deal.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live
