U.S. Climate Action Partnership
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), formed January 22, 2007 is a co-operative group of businesses and leading environmental organizations. The group's primary purpose is to call on the U.S. government to require significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
USCAP's principles and goals are summarized in their brochure "A Call For Action":
We, the members of the U.S. Climate Action
Partnership, pledge to work with the President, the Congress, and all other stakeholders to enact an environmentally effective, economically sustainable, and fair climate change program consistent with our
The USCAP Blueprint calls for the United States to act quickly to establish a mandatory, national economy-wide climate protection program that includes emission reduction targets for total U.S. emissions and for capped sectors that are:
These targets do not comply with the IPCC proposed target reductions of 25 to 40% of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 to 95% of 1990 levels by 2050 for Annex 1 (developed) countries under Scenario A to limit Greenhouse gases to 450ppm
The 14 founding members of USCAP are:
In April, 2007 oil giant ConocoPhillips and insurer AIG joined USCAP.
The following groups and companies joined in June 2007:
In July, 2007, two major U.S. automakers joined:
In February 2010
all left the lobbyist collaboration and are not members anymore.
Journalist Timothy P. Carney, writing for the conservative think tank Capital Research Center, says that USCAP has no in-house staff. He says that, like other lobbying coalitions, it manages its affairs through outside organizations to function and coordinate the activities of its members. He further asserts that USCAP contracts with the Meridian Institute, Lighthouse Consulting, and government relations firm Powell Tate Weber Shandwick to carry out its day-to-day operations.
Questions have been raised about the same companies sponsoring both the partnership and lobbying groups that oppose its goals.
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