Citizens Climate Lobby
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| Abbreviation | CCL |
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| Established | 2007 |
| Founder | Marshall Saunders |
| Type | Advocacy group |
| Focus | Carbon fee and dividend |
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Area served
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Global |
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Members
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> 20,000 |
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Key people
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| Website | citizensclimatelobby |
Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) is an international grassroots environmental group that trains and supports volunteers to build relationships with their elected representatives in order to influence climate policy. Operating since 2007, the goal of CCL is to build political support across party lines to put a price on carbon, specifically a revenue neutral carbon fee and dividend (CF&D) at the national level. CCL is supported by notable climate scientists James Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe, and Daniel Kammen. CCL's advisory board also includes former Secretary of State George Shultz, former US Representative Bob Inglis, actor Don Cheadle, and RESULTS founder Sam Daley-Harris.
Founded in the United States, CCL has active groups in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
The Citizens' Climate Lobby is a non-partisan organization with members throughout the United States, Canada and other countries, which advocates for effective climate legislation. Its key purposes are listed as creating a political will for a sustainable climate, while empowering individuals to exercise their personal and political power. With international/US headquarters in Coronado, California, and a Canadian national office in Sudbury, Ontario, Citizens' Climate Lobby is composed of local volunteer groups who lobby their elected representatives and work through local outreach and media. Their goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote a transition to a renewable energy economy through a market-based approach: a revenue neutral 'carbon fee and dividend' approach to pricing carbon pollution from fossil fuels, and simultaneously ending subsidies to fossil fuel companies. In the US, using a market-based approach by putting a price on carbon is gaining support from both Republicans and Democrats. CCL believes that a revenue neutral carbon fee and dividend is a bipartisian solution that would effectively address carbon emissions, while not relying on a complex regulation approach.
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