Building a Just Transition for a Resilient Future
A Climate Jobs Program for Rhode Island

Authored by researchers at Cornell University, the report Building a Just Transition for a Resilient Future: A Climate Jobs Program for Rhode Island examines the climate crisis in Rhode Island and outlines a set of high-impact climate jobs recommendations that maximize the state’s actions towards:

• Creating thousands of good-paying, high-quality jobs that help reverse inequality

• Drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and meet the state’s Act on Climate targets

• Investing in infrastructure that will make Rhode Island communities healthier, more resilient, and more equitable.