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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Feb 12, 2023

When buildings are designed, built, and maintained to protect the health of people and the environment—and if the manufacturing of building products and materials create good-paying union jobs in the U.S.—then the wellbeing of people and communities will improve, especially for people of color. Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, and manufactured in the U.S. We aim to improve the physical, environmental, and economic health of communities and promote a more equitable future for all.

Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Jul 25, 2019

Manufacturing towns dot the nation, and advanced manufacturing helps provide the foundation for the economy in major regions of the United States. Industries like the steel and automotive industries supported good-paying jobs, middle-class families, and prosperous communities for decades, while also spurring American leadership in innovation and technology. That’s still true in some areas. But in many others, factories have closed or new industries offer jobs that all too often are poorly paid, insecure, or unsafe.

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International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Signing of Paris Climate Agreement

Apr 22, 2016

Below is BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Kim Glas’s statement on the signing of The Paris Climate Agreement.

International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Statement of Departure of Todd Stern as U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change

Mar 23, 2016

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Kim Glas’s statement on the announcement of Todd Stern’s decision to step down as U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change.

International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Lauds International Climate Agreement

Dec 12, 2015

Following the release of the final text of the Paris Agreement awaiting adoption at COP21 in Paris, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Kim Glas.

Blog / International Climate Agreements

Just Transition: Workers’ Rights are Human Rights

Dec 08, 2015

Greetings from Paris. Week two of climate negotiations is now underway!

International Climate Agreements

U.S. Labor, Environmental Organizations Call for Effective, Accountable and Just International Climate Agreement

Nov 30, 2015

The BlueGreen Alliance called on countries to reach an international climate agreement that reflects several key principles to ensure that such an agreement is effective, accountable, and just.

Reports & Fact Sheets / International Climate Agreements

COP21: Statement of Principles

Nov 29, 2015

In Paris, we have an opportunity to achieve critical progress towards securing our environmental and economic future. We offer the following five principles that we believe will achieve this comprehensive vision:

Trade

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call on Congress to Reject Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Nov 10, 2015

Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance and their allies today reacted to the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and urged Congress to vote “no” on the TPP.

Letters / International Climate Agreements

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call for Just Transition Language in Paris Climate Agreement

Nov 03, 2015

Labor and environmental leaders wrote to U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern to thank him for supporting inclusion of Just Transition language in negotiating text for the eventual Paris agreement.

Letters / Trade

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission

Oct 19, 2015

The BlueGreen Alliance weighs in on the effort to expand items included in the Environmental Goods Agreement being negotiated by the U.S. Trade Representative.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Represents Missed Opportunity

Oct 05, 2015

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas calls the finalized Trans-Pacific Partnership a missed opportunity to uphold high labor, environmental, and human rights standards.

Trade

Fast Track Approval is a Step Backward

Jun 18, 2015

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve Fast Track trade authority. After the bill passed with a vote of 218-208 BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas issued the following statement

International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Calls for Leaders to Take Action at Paris Climate Meetings

Jun 18, 2015

Pope Francis released an encyclical on climate change that focuses on the need to address the issue to protect both people and our planet.

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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Signing of Paris Climate Agreement

BlueGreen Alliance Statement of Departure of Todd Stern as U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change

BlueGreen Alliance Lauds International Climate Agreement

Just Transition: Workers’ Rights are Human Rights

U.S. Labor, Environmental Organizations Call for Effective, Accountable and Just International Climate Agreement

COP21: Statement of Principles

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call on Congress to Reject Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call for Just Transition Language in Paris Climate Agreement

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission

Trans-Pacific Partnership Represents Missed Opportunity

Fast Track Approval is a Step Backward

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Calls for Leaders to Take Action at Paris Climate Meetings