Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: 2024 Conservative Climate Leadership Conference Highlights

Join us for a half hour recap of some of the best parts of CCL's 2024 Conservative Conference presentations and keynotes. We'll plan on watching shorter segments that sample highlights from through the conference's line-up of speakers.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(1:13) Neil Chatterjee
(8:59) Grace Stanke
(16:33) Catrina Rorke
(23:08) Farm Bill Panel

Watch more of the presentations and follow along with the slides at: https://cclusa.org/presentations 
More about the 2024 Conservative Climate Leadership Conference: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-change-conferences/conservative/ 

CCL Training: Empowering Your Requesting Workshop

 

 

The strength of CCL's chapters runs on volunteer leaders feeling empowered to make requests, especially requesting volunteers to participate.  This session, lead by Jean Ritok, former Group Co-Leader of the Raleigh Durham Chapter, takes you from your existing skill level in asking, to empowered asking.  It’s an avenue to partnership in your chapter, volunteers enjoying their participation and peace of mind that your chapter is humming. 

CCL Training: Planning Your March Drop-off Member Of Congress's Local Office

Your members of Congress (MOCs) will be working in their district/state offices during the last week of March and first week of April. Join this training to learn more recommendations to help your MOCs keep the policies in CCL’s policy agenda front and center by dropping off material that shows climate policy has strong support in your district/state. 

The ideal drop-off will help build your relationship with the office and demonstrate a steady drumbeat of climate activism and increased support for climate policy in the district.  Some ideas for your drop-off might include:
-A bunch of signed constituent letter forms or a thank you card or photo signed by chapter members
-A stack of letters handwritten by attendees during your February and March chapter meetings
-A folder of newspaper clippings, letters to the editor, op-eds and earned media coverage of your chapter
-A one-page summary of your district/state endorsement report or a show of support from a local leader
-A creative idea of your own such as home baked goods, kids' drawings or postcards, flowers, etc.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:55) Why Is This Important?
(7:43) What To Deliver?
(12:11) Making The Delivery
(17:38) Final Recommendations

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/march-dropoff 
Log your drop-offs in Action Tracker at: https://cclusa.org/actiontracker 
Constituent Comment Forms: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/236   
Share your experience in the forums! https://cclusa.org/forums 

CCL Training: New Research on the Benefits from the BIG WIRES Act

Researchers from MIT recently published a paper detailing all of the great benefits that would come from passing the BIG WIRES Act, and researchers from Vanderbilt published a study about the big role household electrification and efficiency will play in realizing the Inflation Reduction Act's climate pollution reductions potential. We also received an update about the status of the IRA's important home electrification and efficiency rebate programs that have been in development for the past year and a half. Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will summarize all of this new information that's critical to CCL's clean energy permitting reform and building electrification & efficiency policy areas.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

• (0:00) Intro & Agenda
• (2:25) Why Clean Energy Permitting Reform Is Essential
• (9:00) Problems To Solve w/ the BIG WIRES Act
• (18:28) MIT’s Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act Study
• (35:00) Incentivizing Household Action Study- Up to 40% of Emissions Reduction from the IRA

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/BIG-WIRES-updates-slides 
CCL Community Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/15092 
MIT’s Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act Study: https://ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MIT-CEEPR-RC-2024-01.pdf  
Incentivizing Household Action Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421524000120?via%3Dihub#abs0015 

CCL Training: Crafting Impactful Conservative Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor

Learn how to get your conservative-friendly Op-Eds and LTEs in your local publications and how to craft impactful messages for conservative areas in this panel moderated by CCL’s State and Local Media Coordinator, Charlotte Ward!

Hear from our expert panelists:

• Mary Anna Mancuso, Contributor at The Hill & RepublicEN EcoRight Leadership Council Member
• Karly Matthews, VP of Communication at American Conservation Coalition
• Nathan Crabbe, Editor at The Invading Sea

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(5:34) Panel's recommendations
(31:25) Q&A Discussion
(51:38) CCL Support Resources

Helpful resources: 
CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources#media-relations 
RepublicEn: https://republicen.org/ 
The Invading Sea: https://www.theinvadingsea.com/ 
American Conservation Coalition: https://acc.eco/ 

CCL Training: What Happened At COP28?

Join Citizens' Climate International Executive Director Joseph Robertson for training that will provide a summary of the main impacts, takeaways and results of this past December's gathering of the UN Conference of the Parties in Dubai. 

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:38) CCI Contributes To Global Policy
(10:34) Pre-COP 28 Diplomatic Insights
(19:08) The UAE Consensus
(29:03) COP28 Voluntary Commitments
(37:04) On the Way to Baku (COP29)

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/cop28outcomes  
CCI Article:  https://citizensclimate.earth/cop28 

CCL Training: 2024 Media Opportunities

Join CCL's Communications Team Flannery Winchester and Charlotte Ward for a training that will provide a broad overview of the opportunities chapters have as we begin 2024 to engage with their local news media on climate solutions. 

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:27) Why Is Media Work Important?
(9:46) Looking Ahead For 2024
(24:03) Media Resources

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/2024-media-opportunities 
Media Resources:  https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources#media-relations 

CCL Training: 2024 Farm Bill Legislative Overview

Join CCL's Vice President of Government Affairs Ben Pendergrass for a training that will orient CCL volunteers towards what we expect the Farm Bill process to look like for the year, what CCL's priorities will be within the package and how CCL advocates can work with their members of Congress to help ensure that the climate provisions are maintained.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:18) Farm Bill Overview 
(12:09) Inflation Reduction Act: Conservation and Climate Money 
(17:00)  CCL's Focus and Goals 
(28:45) Conclusion and Next Steps

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/farm-bill-overview  

CCL Training: Developing Your Chapter’s 2024 Action Plan

Looking for what actions your chapter can take to help CCL advance climate policy this year? Join Todd Elvins, CCL's National Actions Director for a training that provides a process for developing an effective chapter action plan for your year ahead. Start by asking everyone to reflect on what their own center of climate advocacy. Then use the plan to take all of your volunteer's interests and apply them to CCL's core areas of focus for the year ahead with our template to create your Chapter Action Plan.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:25) Step One: Developing Your Plan
(5:48) Step Two: What Is The Center Of Your Climate Advocacy?
(10:34) Step Three: Using The Template
(14:57) Chapter Growth and Policy Agenda 
(19:01) Step Four: Sharing Your Plan With Your Chapter

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/chapter-action-slides 
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/384 

CCL Training: Comparing the new Carbon Border Adjustment and Tariff Bills

Senate Republicans in November introduced the Foreign Pollution Fee Act to impose a carbon tariff on certain imported goods. Congressional Democrats followed this with a December introduction of the Clean Competition Act to establish a similar carbon border adjustment mechanism. Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will compare these bills and the FAIR Transition and Competition Act border carbon adjustment bill that Congressional Democrats previously introduced, and discuss the prospects for bipartisan agreement on pricing carbon pollution in products crossing US borders.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

• (0:00) Intro & agenda
• (3:13) Why carbon tariffs and border adjustments are important
• (8:17) Are U.S. Industries relatively low-carbon?
• (12:53) CBAMs are on the way
• (14:06) How are three proposed carbon tariff or CBAM bills similar and different?
• (33:56) What’s next for these bills in Congress?

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/carbon-tariff-slides 
Further Research on CBAMs Report: https://cclusa.org/cbam-report
Foreign Pollution Fee Act: www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-leads-introduction-of-foreign-pollution-fee-to-hold-china-accountable/
Clean Competition Act: www.delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3711  
FAIR Transition and Competition Act: www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-coons-rep-peters-introduce-legislation-to-support-us-workers-and-international-climate-cooperation