Analysis Questions Hanscom’s 300% Private Jet Expansion
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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
The Radicalization of Climate Activism
What we need is a bold “just transition” program that ends fossil fuels as soon as possible.
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Our Political System Is Failing Our Planet. Climate Marchers Show There’s Another Way.
We need a fundamental political, economic, and social transformation to take on the climate crisis with true urgency.
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More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires: Unrigging the Global Economy
The world has one last shot at reducing global inequality and saving the planet.
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It Isn’t Nice, But Climate Activists Will Block the Doorways
“There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.”
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Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level
What can you do when you’ve run out of options at the local and national levels?
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Channeling the Global North’s “Clean Energy” Transition
How can activists in the north and south work together to ensure a global just transiti
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Biden’s Dangerous Climate Hypocrisy
Even as Biden announces some relief for the symptoms of extreme heat, his administration continues to green light the fossil fuel projects that are driving it.
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Final report of International Mission to #StopISDS recommends Colombia’s withdrawal from system of corporate abuse and impunity by way of a Citizens Audit
The report highlights how lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits are endangering vulnerable peoples and ecosystems.
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Why Not Tax Private Jets Out of Existence?
The industry not only exploits our planet’s precious resources but makes the rest of us subsidize the extravagant lifestyles of the ultra-rich.
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Reports
Tax Day 2023: Where Your 2022 Tax Dollars Went
IPS’s National Priorities Project takes a look at where American taxpayers’ money went in 2022, and how skewed our national priorities are.
From a Militarized to a Decarbonized Economy: A Case for Conversion
In a new analysis for Costs of War, IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton lays out a case for a transition from a militarized to a decarbonized economy.
REPORT: New Mexico at a Crossroads: False Solutions or a Just Transition?
How community-led energy solutions can benefit the Land of Enchantment — and the country.
IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond
With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
New Mexico’s Case for Public Ownership of its Clean Energy Infrastructure
Any energy transition that doesn’t guarantee a pathway to public ownership perpetuates inequality and wealth extraction from New Mexicans .