Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: How to Give Motivational Climate Presentations

Join leaders of the Presenters Action Team for a high-impact half-hour workshop introducing CCL speakers to motivational presenting. The "AHA" methodology of Acceptance, Hope, and Agency is based on modern psychological-sociological techniques, providing practical steps presenters can use to motivate audiences, bridging the gap from climate apathy and taking action. 

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Motivational Climate Presentations for Concerned Audiences (2:22)
Example AHA Presentation (7:48)
Processing The Example (16:23)
AHA Next Steps, Resources, and Support (21:22)

Helpful Resources:
Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/motivational-climate-presentations   
AHA Starter Kit: https://cclusa.org/aha-starter-kit 
Presenters & Schedulers Action Team: https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/973 
Motivational Presenting Project: cclmotivationalpresenting@gmail.com 

CCL Training: Advanced Instagram Workshop

Join Ashley Hunt Martorano, CCL's Marketing Manager, for an advanced training that will help you take the next steps after getting started with CCL's Using Instagram training. Ashley will review helpful tips and tricks to create effective stories, including lobbying and grassroots outreach efforts, and how to use the platform more efficiently with advanced search and other customization suggestions.

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Why Instagram for lobbying and grassroots outreach? (2:20)
Smart strategy and savvy design that should drive your content (7:59)
How to use Instagram’s many features (20:53)
Q&A: How to grow followers (45:35)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/advanced-instagram-training 
CCL Canva Templates: https://cclusa.org/canvatemplates 
CCL Social Media Action Team: http://cclusa.org/CCLSocial 

CCL Training: A Social Psychological Framework For Climate Advocates

Join psychologists David Sherman and Leaf Van Boven (CCL's Sept 2018 monthly speakers) as they review the main findings and framework for their recent research. Deepen your understanding of how to utilize the strategies of affirmation, norms, immediacy and legacy in your own climate advocacy and citizen lobbying. Dr. Van Boven is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Dr. Sherman is a professor of psychology and brain sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

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Theoretical Background (4:19)

Framework For Overcoming Barriers (27:10)

Data & Findings (42:07)

Implications for Advocacy & Training (52:49)

 

• Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/social-psychological-slides
• Recent Sherman, Shteyn, Han & Van Boven research article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-public-policy/article/exchange-between-citizens-and-elected-officials-a-social-psychological-framework-for-citizen-climate-activists/0220FD5EE016383DB2B9D46C10C751D0
• Behavior Climate Policy Conference: https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/bcp2020/home (online, UC-Boulder, Friday, October 23)

CCL Training: Working With Business Climate Leaders From Prospect To Advocate

Join Business Climate Leaders as they present an interactive workshop where you will learn how we target, research, make first contact with and actually meet with businesses, both big and small.  You will be able to be part of an actual role playing exercise to demystify meeting with executives and sharing the work we are passionate about.  

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Developing Your Team (3:02)
Bringing Trusted Messengers & Making First Contact (5:11)
Running An Effective Meeting (8:38)
Role-Play Practice (17:19)
Following Up (24:37)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/bcl-workshop

Main Website: http://BusinessClimateLeaders.org

Volunteer Resources: http://BCLresources.org

CCL Training: Encouraging Existing Endorsers To Champion Their Support To Congress

As we finish out 2020, one of CCL’s top priorities is to build up public awareness of the solid support for the Energy Innovation Act in the public eye across the political spectrum and among members of Congress and their staff.  We encourage you to be creative and strategic in your outreach to community influencers.  After you've done research to focus your group's grasstops engagement, this training walks you through how to best highlight Energy Innovation Act support from local community leaders on both sides of the aisle and provides specific examples of other CCL groups' success stories.

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Why Now? Why Grasstops? (2:25)
Who To Reconnect With? (4:51)
Public & Private Statement Formats (8:43)
Endorsers in Lobby Meetings (22:43)
Getting Creative (Mayors & Town Halls) (31:14)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/encouraging-existing-endorsers

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/420

CCL Training: Understanding Economic Support For Carbon Fee & Dividend Policies

CCL continues to bolster our case with top-notch economic modeling. Join CCL Research Coordinator Jerry Hinkle for a training that discusses recent research that supports our advocacy of H.R. 763 on two fronts. The first is a new paper lead by Dr. Noah Kaufman that shows the baseline carbon price is estimated to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions in the US by 2050, and the second by Dr. Shindell's team shows policies like the Energy Innovation Act will generate $700 billion a year in US health benefits.

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Carbon Prices Yield Net-Zero by 2050 (2:32)
Policy Costs vs. Policy Benefits (10:52)
Widespread Economic Support (19:59)

Presentation Slides:
https://cclusa.org/economic-research-updates

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/398
Dr. Kaufman et al.'s Nature Climate Change paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0880-3.epdf?sharing_token=O7QJMK_9V3HX0gXeyAPNCdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N3AArv0f-1900vWRsAT7-NNj7S_f0vSze5UWQs0s2xIuzhfAL_jXK8QyvgA0vFYhBZmoBAYzHKcAlsMAix2irDlYKu5i1ZKHLy47DT-wz93rnArV2i6UAI5x_0emqIekM%3D

Dr. Shindell's Team Research: https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Testimony%20Shindell.pdf

CCL Training: Household Impact Study (2020 Updates)

CCL continues to bolster our case with top-notch economic modeling. Join CCL's Research Coordinator Rick Knight for a special training on important research updates. The brand new Household Impact Study 2020 is now done, revealing exciting financial benefits for American households under the Energy Innovation Act. Rick will take you through researcher Kevin Ummel's top-level findings and how it improves on the original 2016 study done for CCL.

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New Study Findings (2:25)
How Households Fare (7:30)
Where To Find Resources (11:31)

Presentation Slides:
http://cclusa.org/household-impact-study-2020-slides

2020 Household Impact Study Updates: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/household-impact-study/

 

CCL Training: Model Laws For Deep Decarbonization

Join Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School, Faculty Director for the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and CCL Advisory Board member for a training on the Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization. His team's research provides a “legal playbook” for deep decarbonization in the United States, identifying well over 1,000 model laws based on two reports by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) that explain technical and policy pathways for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% from 1990 levels by 2050.  Gerrard will also identify changes needed in federal, state, and local law to help achieve these reductions and highlight ways that CCL volunteers can be engaged in highlighting these model laws out to federal, state, and local legislators.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
Four Pillars of a Net-Zero or Net-Negative Energy System (6:08)
Twelve Types of Legal Tools (14:50)
Legal Pathways Section-By-Section Review (19:55)
Mobilizing Pro Bono Lawyers (41:19)

Join CCL: https://cclusa.org/join

Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization in the United States: https://lpdd.org/

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States: https://www.eli.org/legal-pathways-deep-decarbonization-united-states-summary-and-key-recommendations

CCL Training: CCL & Voter Participation Outreach

Join Shannon Seigal from the Environmental Voter Project and CCL group leaders from Georgia and California for a training on how to encourage your chapter to participate in your democracy, increase voter participation via the Environmental Voter Project and support related campaigns on campuses.

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Environmental Voter Project (2:01)
Working Local Campaigns (12:26)
Help Students Vote (18:31)
Stories From The Field (20:00)

 

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/voter-participation-outreach

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/464

CCL & TurboVote: https://cclusa.org/vote

CCL Training: Sunny Day Flooding & Climate Advocacy

Join CCL's Conservative Director Jim Tolbert for an applied training on how to identify and leverage the sunny day flooding events that occur in your community to create local stories with impact about your community. This training will also focus on how to connect these local stories and use sunny day flooding in our advocacy for coastal chapters.

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Why sunny day flooding matters (2:54)
Tools to help develop a local story (8:31)
Capturing a local story (21:06)
Linking these stories to advocacy (29:01)

NOAA Tide Tool: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html?type=TidePredictions

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/flooding-climate-advocacy

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/463