CCL National Releases New Strategy

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At the semi-annual national conference on Dec. 3-4, CCL presented  the results of its year-long strategic review: Expanding our policy focus from carbon fee and dividend to include three complimentary policy initiatives:

  • Healthy Forests
  • Building Electrification & Efficiency
  • Clean Energy Remitting Reform

In her opening keynote, Executive Director Madeleine Para explains the wisdom of adding these policy areas.  Research Director Dana Nuccitelli shared the scientific, economic and political viability supporting these policies, all summarized in this chart:

The IRA puts us on track to a 28% reduction. These 4 policies will improve that result as shown.

“Business as usual” after the IRA will lead to 28% reductions (from 2005 levels) by 2030, and permitting reform will take that to 40% all by itself!  Carbon fee and dividend policies will reduce GHGs another 12% by 2030 and lay the foundation for deeper reductions from 2030-2050.

If you missed some or all of the sessions, see links below.   If you are short on time, the Opening & Welcome (Madeleine Para) and CCL’s Policy Agenda (Dana Nuccitelli) presentations are absolute “musts” and Putting It Into Action (CCL Staff) is extremely helpful.

The breakouts will get you comfortable with some of the logic and data behind each of the policy initiatives:

  1. Opening & Welcome (Madeleine Para) (15:00)
    1. Madeline Para introduces CCL’s new policy agenda for 2023 and beyond. Result of year-long strategic planning/review with staff and volunteers.
    2. Same mission and values. Starting at about 9:00, Madeleine summarizes the 4 areas we’ll use to organize our work, training & resources.
      1. Carbon Pricing
      2. Healthy Forests
      3. Building Electrification & Efficiency
      4. Clean Energy Permitting Reform
    3. Opening Keynote with Former U.S., Rep. Carlos Curbelo (11:00)
    4. CCL’s Policy Agenda (Dana Nuccitelli) (41:00 total; 28:00 preso, & 13:00 Q&A )
      1. Research Director Nuccitelli briefs us on the problems/solutions, tradeoffs, and policy drivers (science, tech, economics, regs) of each policy initiative:
        1. Permitting Reform (at 4:00 of video); see also
          1. org/permitting-training
          2. org/permitting-training-advanced
        2. Building Electrification & Efficiency (at 13:00 of video) see also
          1. org/building-electrification-training
          2. org/building-electrification-advanced
          3. See also your potential subsidies at org/ira-calc
        3. Carbon Pricing Remains Centrally Important (at 17:00)
          1. org/carbon-pricing-training
        4. Healthy Forests (at 19:30)
          1. org/forest-training
          2. org/forest-training-advanced
        5. Dana summarizes in graphic form how much GHG reductions are increased from each of these policies. (at 25:35)
  2. Saturday Breakouts
    1. Clean Energy Permitting Reform Session (46:00)
    2. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM) (47:00)
    3. Healthy Forests Session (46:00)
    4. Building Electrification & Efficiency Session (47:00)
  3. Legislative Strategy (29:00) – VP Gov’t Affairs Ben Pendergrass and Jenn Tyler speak to the political landscape and how we can be effective w/ the new Congress.
  4. Putting It Into Action (38:00) – CCL Staff talk about how to meld these policy initiatives with our “levers” and where our resources will be online.
    1. All Resources – https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources
    2. All Trainings – https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics
  5. Each of the levers and Action Teams has page(s) on Community
      1. Connect/Sitewide Forums
      2. Connect/Action Teams
      3. Tools, generally
  6. Closing Keynote: Sen. Tina Smith & Rep. Paul Tonko (21:00)

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