Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) is an environmental nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. Launched in 2011, C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. C2ES works closely with policymakers and stakeholders to promote pragmatic, effective policies at the state, national and international levels.

Bob Perciasepe, the former deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), became the organization’s president in August 2014, succeeding Eileen Claussen, the center’s founding president. The chairman of the C2ES board of directors is Theodore Roosevelt IV.

C2ES seeks to contribute to the effort to solve climate and energy challenges by:

Highlighting the broad mix of approaches required to tackle the climate challenge, the Pew Center produced nearly 100 peer-reviewed reports and a broad collection of white papers and briefs by noted climate experts covering a range of critical topics including economics, environmental impacts, policy, science, business, and technology. The Pew Center regularly testified before the United States Congress and met with others to share ideas for addressing climate change. The Pew Center also was engaged with governments and business in exploring options for a post-2012 international

The Pew Center's Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) became the largest U.S.-based association of companies committed to advancing both policy and business solutions to climate change. The Council started with 13 members and includes more than 30 mainly Fortune 500 companies with combined revenue of $2 trillion and 3.5 million employees. The Council now operates as the C2ES Business Environmental Leadership Council. The Pew Center also served as a founding and active member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), an influential business-NGO coalition calling on Congress to establish a mandatory national climate policy.

C2ES has also partnered with several companies, including Entergy and Alcoa, for its Make an Impact program, which engages employees and helps individuals take action to reduce their carbon footprints.

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