As communities and advocates worldwide work to respond adequately to increasing climate disasters, where can climate advocates find resources to advance just, equitable, and community-based disaster recovery?

In this webinar, Climate Advocacy Lab teamed up with Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) to discuss CJA's recently released multimedia report Our Power Puerto Rico: Moving Toward a Just Recovery (a project completed with support from the Lab!). During the conversation, authors, experts, and frontline organizers who contributed to the case study and report highlight tools (including the 'Just Recovery framework'), practices, and experiential lessons learned from applying a participatory model of "Just Recovery" to disaster response in Puerto Rico following hurricane María. 

This polling tests Green New Deal (GND) for Public Housing Act legislation in an electoral environment, with Republican arguments against it. Polling includes questions probing the support of voters for a policy "if it would...":

Large majorities of Iowa voters want their elected officials to reduce global warming and increase clean, renewable energy, and are worried about climate change, having experienced the impacts of extreme weather. These concerns translate to support for candidates backing specific policies (poll toplines are available here). 

This multimedia report provides a comprehensive case study of Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)’s Our Power Puerto Rico (OurPowerPR) campaign as a model of Just Recovery, an effective and innovative tool for climate adaptation that integrates many sectors of the economy to include energy democracy, food sovereignty, rural infrastructure and community self-determination.

A majority of Americans (63%) somewhat or strongly support their state adopting a policy that mandates solar power installation on all new homes constructed in their state. While public support differs by partisan identity, even a majority of Republicans say they support such a policy (57% compared to 73% of Democrats surveyed). A separate poll from late May suggests overall enthusiasm for home solar, with 58% of U.S. adults saying they would consider installing solar on their homes and the rest split between “no” (22%) and “don’t know” (20%).

A majority of Americans (76%) support net energy metering (NEM), a policy that allows small-scale producers of renewable energy (e.g., through rooftop solar panels) to sell excess power back to their electric utility.

83% of U.S. adults think climate change is happening, with 26% responding that it is "mainly due to human activities"; 13% responding that it is "mainly due to natural causes"; and 55% responding that it is "due to a combination of both human activities and natural causes." 38% of U.S. adults are "very concerned" about climate change (including 23% of Republicans) and 38% of "somewhat concerned" (including 34% of Republicans). 67% of U.S. adults think the U.S. should be producing "much more" wind and solar energy than we are today, with 22% responding "somewhat more." 

When Kentucky’s leaders failed to do their job of writing a state implementation plan for the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) realized that this was actually an opportunity to bring together residents from all over the state to share their vision for what Kentucky’s energy future could look like, generating shared, aspirational political will for a new economy powered by clean energy.