This week, the Center for American Progress released a new brief looking at the design flaws of the federal Opportunity Zones (OZ) tax incentive. The OZ incentive was not designed to promote investments in projects that help reduce local pollution or build future-ready, resilient infrastructure and housing that can withstand more extreme heat, storms, floods, and other climate change effects. Achieving equitable, climate-ready economic development will require a complete rethinking of national and local frameworks.

You can read the full brief here: “Promise and Opportunity Deferred: Why the United States Has Failed to Achieve Equitable and Inclusive Communities”

We’d appreciate help amplifying this on social media! You can find suggested guidance below.

Thanks,

Hannah

Social media guidance:

• Retweet @CAPenergypolicy: https://twitter.com/CAPenergypolicy/status/1230916426782908417

• In order to build #AJustClimate we must lift up communities that are disproportionately exposed to the highest levels of toxic pollution and have the fewest resources to prepare for or recover from climate disasters. More via @amprog: https://www.americanprogress.org/?p=480640

• Nearly 1 out of every 6 U.S. residents live in distressed communities – places with higher rates of poverty, unemployment, population loss. When extreme weather events hit, they’re on the frontlines. More via @amprog: https://www.americanprogress.org/?p=480640
  
  

• ‘Opportunity Zones’ were supposed to target investment in distressed communities. Instead, it’s accelerated gentrification and left already-vulnerable populations more exposed to the threat and devastation of climate change. More via @amprog: https://www.americanprogress.org/?p=480640

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Hannah Malus

Campaign Manager, Energy and Environment War Room

Center for American Progress

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