Citizens' Climate Lobby

Jeffrey O’Malley | Citizens' Climate Lobby | February 2016 Monthly Speaker

Our February guest is Jeffrey O’Malley, Director of the Division of Data, Research and Policy for UNICEF.  He is responsible for shaping research and evidence priorities, ensuring that evidence, in turn, shapes UNICEF policies and strategies. Mr. O’Malley joins our February call to discuss UNICEF’s report, Unless We Act Now, about the impact of climate change on children.

Hahrie Han | Citizens' Climate Lobby | January 2016 Monthly Speaker

Our guest speaker at our January meeting is Hahrie Han. Han is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the politics of environmental and social policy, focusing particularly on the role that civic associations play in mobilizing participation in politics and policy advocacy.

David Titley | Citizens' Climate Lobby | December 2015 Monthly Speaker

Our guest for the December call is Dr. David Titley, a professor of practice in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of their Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He was also NOAA’s chief operating officer from 2012-2013. Before assuming these positions, he was a rear admiral and the chief oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, in which he served for 32 years.

 

While serving in the Pentagon, Dr. Titley initiated and led the US Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change.

Rob Williams | Citizens' Climate Lobby | November 2015 Monthly Speaker

Our guest for the November call is Rob Williams, Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs at Resources for the Future (RFF). He’ll discuss results from two recent papers RFF published that examine the different impacts a revenue-neutral carbon fee would have across U.S. states and across income quintiles if the revenue was recycled to reduce corporate taxes, to reduce payroll taxes, or returned as a dividend.

Patrick Verkooijen | Citizens' Climate Lobby | October 2015 Monthly Speaker

Our guest for the October call was Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change for the World Bank Group. He has been working closely with Rachel Kyte, the World Bank Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, and has been instrumental in the building of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. 

 

On the national call, Dr. Verkooijen spoke about the World Bank’s involvement in climate change and the role it is playing to facilitate carbon pricing throughout the world. Originally from the Netherlands, he became Special Representative for Climate Change at the World Bank in July 2012, and represents the World Bank in UN meetings on climate change, and serves as principal advisor to the Vice President SDN, specifically engaging with the UN and other partners leading global efforts in the climate change area.

Jerry Taylor | Citizens' Climate Lobby | September 2015 Monthly Speaker

Jerry Taylor is president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank developing and promoting proposals to legislative and executive branch policymakers. Prior to founding the Center in 2014, Mr. Taylor spent 23 years at the Cato Institute, where he served as director of natural resource studies, assistant editor of Regulation magazine, senior fellow, and then vice president. He is the author of The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax, a paper published earlier this year by the Niskanen Center.

Sam Daley-Harris | Citizens' Climate Lobby | August 2015 Monthly Speaker

Sam Daley-Harris, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation

How can we maximize the leverage from the media we generate and other actions we take? RESULTS founder and CCL mentor Sam Daley–Harris will join our August call and coach us on best practices to ensure that our actions have the greatest impact with members of Congress. After 15 years with RESULTS, Sam founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign, which he left in 2012 to establish the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation.

Patrick Carolan | Citizens' Climate Lobby | July 2015 Monthly Speaker

Patrick Carolan, Executive Director of Franciscan Action Network

Now that the Pope has released his encyclical on climate change, how can we best leverage Francis’ message for policy action? In the run up to the Pope addressing Congress and the UN in September, what messages should we be putting forward in the media? For answers, we’ll turn to Patrick Carolan, Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network, a grassroots organization amplifying the justice efforts of Franciscans and Franciscan-hearted people around the country.

Dr. Danny Richter | Citizens' Climate Lobby | June 2015 Monthly Speaker

What do we really know about people’s carbon footprints? What role does income and geography play? This is important to know, because the greater one’s carbon footprint, the more one will pay under a carbon-pricing regime, and elected officials want to know which of their constituents will be most affected. A new study from the Center for Global Development sheds light on these questions, and CCL’s Legislative Director Danny Richter will walk us through the study and its findings on the June call.

Tony Leiserowitz | Citizens' Climate Lobby | May 2015 Monthly Speaker

Tony Leiserowitz, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

The "gateway belief," what makes people more likely to accept the facts on climate change and support public policy solutions, is this simple fact: 97% of climate scientists are convinced, based upon the evidence, that human-caused global warming is happening. On our May call, Tony Leiserowitz from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication will discuss how we can get this vital information across to people and also talk about using the Yale Climate Opinion Maps as a tool for advocacy.