Launching a Successful Civilian Climate Corps to Build Career Pathways and Resilient Urban Communities. By Bahij Chancey, Winn Costantini, Lisbeth Shepherd, Nicholas de Monchaux, and Christopher Zegras.
As momentum gathers in Washington DC to establish a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), this paper outlines ways to achieve two key goals: First, to create career paths for young people; and secondly, to improve the United States’ ability to counter and adapt to climate change, especially in communities that have suffered from environmental injustices. Advancing these interdependent goals will create physical, economic, and social resilience while building more just, resilient, and sustainable communities across America. This paper describes how this can be done relatively quickly, by building off the AmeriCorps program, and provides recommendations that apply to a fully developed CCC.
