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Promote Climate Justice

The increased focus on climate change in the U.S. Congress has yielded a growing number of proposals aimed at reducing the pollution that causes it. Unfortunately, the widely preferred policy approaches carry important and often poorly understood economic consequences. Application of the most widely promoted policy option for limiting pollution, a cap-and-trade system, is likely to produce climate policy that may limit emissions of greenhouse gases, but would place undue economic burdens on those least responsible for causing the problem—and least able to bear the costs of solving it. With a coalition of like-minded groups, ELI is working to inject environmental justice concerns, including disproportionate economic and environmental impacts on economically-disadvantaged groups and communities of color, into state and federal policy debates.

ELI's work on climate justice builds on our long history of advancing environmental justice.

Welcome to
Climate Change at ELI

What's New:

March 2008, ELI releases report on Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species

November 2007, Climate Change and the Constitution: Climate Change Litigation Heats Up

September 2007, ELI Contributes to Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change.

September 8, 2007, ELI Addresses the Chinese-American Professional Association's Annual Seminar on Water Resource Management in the Face of Climate Change.

July 2007, Maryland appoints ELI to serve on the Adaptation and Response Working Group of the Maryland Climate Change Commission.

Please check back regularly for the latest updates.

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