Soaked: A Policy Agenda to Prepare for a Climate-Triggered Housing Crash
This report introduces policy proposals to ready the housing market for a climate-induced crash and equitably manage retreat from at-risk geographies.
Protect Our Democracy from Global Threats
Securing democracy at home requires a clear-eyed strategy for addressing threats that come from beyond the U.S. boarders. Dangerous, authoritarian regimes are using new types of warfare to promote fear and cause harm within our borders, threatening everything from our power grids to our elections. At the same time, the climate crisis threatens our economy, our health, and our infrastructure. These threats present a clear danger, not only to our people, but also to our system of government and what we stand for. Furthermore, middle class families’ futures hang in the balance of trade deals and international economic policies driven by the wealthiest multinational corporations.
GDI will advance a new approach to international trade, decarbonization, and economics that prioritizes working families’ success, as well as a progressive approach to confronting threats from authoritarian states.
OIRA 2.0: How Regulatory Review Can Help Respond to Existential Threats
This report proposes reforming the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ (OIRA) structure and regulatory review process so that it can better support a progressive, equitable, and sustainable agenda.
A Regulatory Green Light: How Dodd-Frank Can Address Wall Street’s Role in the Climate Crisis
This paper argues that a sustainable shift to green energy requires a significant reallocation of capital from fossil fuels to green energy and that the Dodd-Frank Act provides the regulatory tools to require financial institutions to internalize the financial risks associated with lending and investments that drive climate change.
A Blueprint for a New American Trade Policy
For decades, U.S. trade policy has been based on the assumption that trade liberalization is beneficial for everyone, with few distributional downsides over time. But this assumption hasn’t been borne out. This report offers ten recommendations on how to reform American trade policy.