Alvaro S. Sanchez
Greenlining Institute
Alvaro S. Sanchez is an urban planner with extensive experience crafting, implementing, and evaluating strategies that leverage private and public investments to deliver community benefits to impacted communities. Alvaro is The Greenlining Institute’s Vice President of Policy. He leads a team that develops policies to improve public health, catalyze economic opportunity, and enrich environmental quality for low-income communities and communities of color by leveraging public, private, and philanthropic dollars to fight climate change, and help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing environment.
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Turning research into actionInvesting in Community Power: Insights from a Decade of California Climate Investments
California has long been a leader in launching groundbreaking initiatives to combat the climate crisis. But the climate crisis is also a crisis of inequity, hitting communities of color and low-income communities first and worst and exacerbating health and wealth inequities.
July 3, 2024
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Environment and ClimateA Call to Invest in Community Power: Lessons from 10 Years of California Climate Investments for the State and the Nation
As state and federal policymakers work to address climate change through climate investments that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build resilience—for instance, clean transportation, solar panels, urban greening, transit-oriented housing development—it is critical that investments are geared to support the communities that have been historically marginalized and left behind.
February 16, 2024
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Environment and ClimateAdvancing Racial Equity Through Climate Policy: Environmental, Economic and Health Equity Outcomes and Implications of CA's Climate Investment Program
Senate Bill 535 and Assembly Bill 1550, combined, require the state to dedicate a minimum of 35 percent of revenues raised through Cap-and-Trade to communities that are environmentally overburdened and socially vulnerable. This was an explicit effort to promote health, economic, and racial equity in California's climate policy strategy. This project will research and evaluate the implementation of the $12.6 billion California Climate Investment program (SB 535 and AB 1550) in creating solutions that promote health, economic, and racial equity in environmentally disadvantaged communities.
December 15, 2021
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