Ineffective CBAs have co-opted low-income communities and misled the public, by generating support for development projects without delivering real community benefits, notes this guide by the Partnership for Working Families. The guide walks through how to design effective CBAs — and spot signs of ineffectiveness.

Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) have become a powerful tool by community groups in land-use planning, race equity, and environmental justice, notes author Hannah P. Stephan in Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. But whether CBAs are enforceable in court depends on several factors, from the perspective of the community organizations.

2023 marked one of the largest public investments in climate action in American history. But behind the large sums of the Infrastructure Reduction Act (IRA) is a maze of capital deployment, says Ana Baptistadana Johnson in Common Dreams, including in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), utilization (CCUS), and direct air capture projects, that often enable further fossil fuel reliance.

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A study suggests that mainstream climate change news doesn’t spark change. Instead, it might be backfiring, provoking denial and avoidance.

Heat pumps are a cheap and efficient way to handle home heating and cooling. They’re also one of the best ways to reduce carbon footprint.

How narratives have been shaped by techno-science analyses and solutions and left out or poorly interpreted the roles that colonialism, social structures, and worldviews have played in getting us to this point.

A community benefits agreement is a contract between a developer and neighborhood group and/or coalition requires the developer to provide specific community benefits in exchange for community support.

Cities are responsible for close to 70-80% of global CO2 emissions associated with energy consumption.