How carbon pricing can be included in the Paris climate accord By Steve Valk on Nov 08, 2015 02:11 pm How carbon pricing can be included in the Paris climate accord By Flannery Keck “Price increases on cigarettes are highly effective in reducing demand.” That’s according to the World Health Organization and other groups, such as the Campaign …
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Major U.S. banks call for leadership in addressing climate change Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley & Wells Fargo issue joint statement on the need for global climate agreement For more information, contact Aaron Pickering — Ceres | pickering@ceres.org | phone: 617-247-0700 ext. 148 | cell: 508-951-0919 NEW YORK, NY – Sep 28, 2015 Six major U.S. banks – Bank …
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Niskanen Center, CCL Texas Tour, Pathway to Paris, CCL Everywhere!, Off to the Races Click to view this email in a browser CCL Newsletter, September 2015 Table of Contents: CCL lobby day in November National call: Jerry Taylor from Niskanen Center September action ties into Pope’s visit Let’s cover Texas! Update on Pathway to Paris …
Click to view this email in a browser CCL Newsletter, May 2015 7 WEEKS UNTIL #CCL2015 Meet our Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe Named to TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list for 2014, Katharine Hayhoe, CCL’s Keynote speaker for our International Conference in June, is an atmospheric scientist who studies how …
2015 Greater Pacific Northwest Regional Conference Fisheries, Farms and Forests: Connecting with Concerned Harvesters March 7-8, 2015 CCL volunteers from Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Hawaii will be coming to network, learn, and explore strategies for turning our CCL proposal into national legislation. Everyone is welcome; whether newly interested in CCL or an experienced …
Join us for our Citizens’ Climate Lobby Pacific NW Regional Conference on March 7th and 8th, 2015. Go to this web site to sign up and find out what is happening on those 2 days. Should be an exciting, informative event and place to make wonderful connections in order to help solve our climate crisis. https://donate.citizensclimateeducationcorp.org/seattle/events/greater-pacific-northwest-regional-conference/e41679
Please watch this Ted Talk by Allan Savory Truly an astonishing talk! Dec. 6: Allan Savory of the Savory Institute Can we reverse desertification and sequester carbon through cattle herding? That’s the hopeful theory behind the work of our December guest, Allan Savory of the Savory Institute, who began developing his holistic management methodology in …
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The following was researched and written by the Tri-Cities, WA Citizens’ Climate Lobby chapter: 1. Agriculture and food is a $49 billion industry in Washington, employing 160,000 people and contributing 13% to the state’s economy.1 It has and will face threats to its productivity due to the impacts of climate change.2 2. Growing seasons may …
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In the State of Washington it is clear that human caused climate change is real, is occurring and is set to have increasingly harmful impacts on the State and the broader Pacific Northwest, especially if we do not curb emissions going into the future. Already temperatures have increased in the region by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit …
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A nation-wide study commissioned by the Citizens’ Climate Education Corporation (CCEC) and Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) has now been completed by the Regional Economic Modeling, Inc. (REMI). They state: “The biggest take-home from this study is that there is no economic argument against Feed and Dividen. It creates jobs, grows the economy, saves lives, and …
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