Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCR 65 Extreme Heat and Insurance Solutions with Kathy Baughman McLeod

Kathy Baughman McLeod, SVP, Atlantic Council & Director, Adrienne Arsht - Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center reveals the many risks that come with extreme heat. She also provides multiple solutions, including innovative ways to use insurance to change the way we build and respond to extreme weather.

Kathy Baughman McLeod leads the Center’s work to reach one billion people worldwide with climate resilience solutions by 2030. She also chairs the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance which partners with climate-forward Mayors around the world to appoint Chief Heat Officers. Additionally, Kathy is spearheading the global push to name and categorize heat waves. She was formerly Global Executive for Environmental and Social Risk at Bank of America, Managing Director for Climate Risk & Resilience at The Nature Conservancy, and a Florida Climate Commissioner. She is the recipient of the Duke University Fuqua School of Business 2021 “Leader of Consequence” award.

Learn more about Kathy and her work to reach one billion people with climate solutions by visiting One Billion Resilient. Follow Kathy on Twitter. 

Articles by Kathy Baughman McLeod and others about responding to extreme heat.

Foreign Affairs’ “Building a Resilient Planet,” Marketplace’s “How the U.S. could be smarter about insuring against extreme weather-related disasters,” The Financial Times’ “Cities Appoint ‘Heat Officers’ In Response to Warming Threat,” The New Yorker’s “Oil’s Bad, Bad Day,” The Climate Pod’s “How Do We Live with Hotter ‘Climate Normals’?,” Reuter’s “U.S. Cities Hire specialists to counter climate change as impacts worsen,” and Fast Company’s “Athens will be the first European city to appoint a Chief Heat Officer.”bHeat is Killing Us and The Economy Too The Atlantic Council

The Art House

Joining us in the Art House is Marissa Slaven. In 2019 we featured her in Episode 33 to talk about her young adult climate themed novel, Code Blue. Now Marissa is back with the squeal, Code Red. She was inspired by her daughter to write this series of eco-fiction thriller, where a teenage girl and her friends battle climate change. I sat down with her to talk about the new book and to hear her read an excerpt. To learn more about Marissa and her books, visit Stormbird Press. You can also follow her on Twitter. 

You can hear standalone versions of The Art House at Artists and Climate Change

Good News Report

Our good news story this month comes from Flannery Winchester, communications director at Citizens Climate Lobby. Because of the many efforts by CCL volunteers, the needle is moving towards carbon fee and dividend as one of the ways to address climate change. She talks about the budget reconciliation process and volunteer lobbying and how politicians and the press are responding.

We always welcome your thoughts, questions, suggestions, good news, and recommendations for the show. Leave a voice mail at 518.595.9414. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.) You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org  

You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, Podbean, Northern Spirit Radio, Google Play, PlayerFM, and TuneIn Radio. Also, feel free to connect with other listeners, suggest program ideas, and respond to programs in the Citizens’ Climate Radio Facebook group or on Twitter at @CitizensCRadio.

CCL Training: 7 Steps For Media Actions To Support Carbon Pricing in Reconciliation

Join CCL's State and Local Media Coordinator Charlotte Ward for a training that will be focused on how you can best utilize CCL's amazing suite of media resources to amplify the importance of including an ambitious price on carbon in the emerging reconciliation process, including customizing and submitting one of CCL’s op-ed templates, asking an editor for an editorial, writing more local letters to the editor and amplifying your media work on social media.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(7:45) Step 1: Become A Media Manager 
(10:48) Step 2: Find & Share LTE Opportunities 
(14:41) Step 3: Boost Visibility w/ Op-Eds 
(25:02) Step 4: Link Up With Your Liaison 
(28:28) Step 5: Make The News 
(32:21) Step 6: Aim For An Editorial 
(35:04) Step 7: Get Social! 

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/jump-start-media-slides 
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/372 
Print Media Resources: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources#media-relations 

Rep. Ray Ward | Citizens‘ Climate Lobby | October 2021 Monthly Meeting

Is carbon fee and dividend really the policy that can bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats? On this month's call we'll talk to Dr. Ray Ward, a Republican state representative in Utah, about why he likes the policy. When he's not working in the legislature, Ward is a family physician in Bountiful, Utah. Earlier this year, he signed on to an op-ed in the Deseret News with two dozen other Utah Republicans endorsing carbon fee and dividend.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Welcome
(2:45) Rep. Ray Ward
(9:07) Q&A Discussion
(22:59) Legislative Updates w/ Ben Pendergrass
(35:44) October Updates & Actions

CCL's October Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet  
October Pre-Call Video: https://vimeo.com/626727421 
Desert News Republican Carbon Dividends Op-Ed: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/6/4/22453352/carbon-dividend-act-republicans-for-climate-change 
Register for November 13-14 Conference: https://cclusa.org/November 
President Biden Campaign: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/white-house/

CCL Training: Understanding U.S. State Severance Fees

Join CCL State Level Carbon Pricing Coordinator Alexis Hermosillo and CCL's legislative interns Amanda Christophe and Matias Alberola for a training that will examine the connection between severance fees and carbon pricing, and help attendees understand current trends and future steps for action.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

(0:00) Introduction & Agenda

(2:41) Introduction of Severance Fees

(4:14) Scope of U.S. Severance Fees

(7:34)Tax Revenue Use

(9:47) Relation to Carbon Pricing

(11:55) Trends and Steps for Action

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/severance-fee-slides

National Conference of State Legislatures: https://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/state-energy-revenues-update.aspx 

Dr. Barry Rabe’s research: https://www.brookings.edu/ author/barry-rabe/?type=posts and

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wNYXHPs3VbXJjHn8MslG3OHzvHo47COK/edit#slide=id.p11 

 

 

CCL Training: Ten Social Media Actions to Take To Support A #PriceOnCarbon in Budget Reconciliation

Join CCL's Marketing Manager Ashley Hunt Martorano for a training that walks you through the strategic ways you can leverage the power of their own social media profiles to amplify and support the actions CCL is taking to help ensure strong climate policy like a carbon price is included in the emerging details of the budget reconciliation process.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(4:00) Why Take Action Now?
(11:09) Twitter Actions
(19:15) Facebook Actions
(25:38) Instagram Actions
(32:32) TikTok Actions
(37:06) LinkedIn Action and Final reminders

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/10-social-actions-slides  
Social Media Toolkit for CCL's Reconciliation Campaign: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/489

CCL Training: Communicating With Conservatives

Join Drew Eyerly, CCL Conservative Outreach Director for a training on communicating with conservatives regarding putting a price on carbon. Drew reviews conservative messaging on climate change, especially with regard to the printed word and highlight the conservative support aligning with key messages and underlying components, connecting how policies that CCL supports align with conservative values.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

(0:00) Intro & Agenda

(4:47) Why We Need Political Balance

(8:11) Safe Areas for Positive Discussion

(12:45) Build Relationships/Positive Communications

(19:50) Roadblocks to Progress

(24:15) Wrapping Up

 

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/communicating-with-conservatives 
Conservatives on Climate Change Website: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/conservatives-on-climate-change/ 
Conservative Climate Policy Guide: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/conservative-guide-climate-policy/ 
CCL Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/communicating-across-the-aisle/conservatives 

CCL Training: Ask Community Leaders to Champion their Support to Congress

Contact community leaders you know and ask them to personally call to urge their members of Congress to support carbon pricing in climate legislation. Join CCL Action Director Todd Elvins and CCL leaders Robin Paone and Mark Welsch to find out how you can take action locally.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:03) Why now and which community leaders? 
(6:38) How they should contact their members of Congress?
(8:15) How else to highlight support?
(9:50) Volunteer success stories

CCL Training Page:
https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/420 
Endorse at: 
https://energyinnovationact.org/endorse/ 

CCR Ep 64 Hinduism and LGBTQ climate work with Hari Venkatachalam

How does an American Hindu approach the climate crisis? What ancient values and teachings apply to modern life in America today? And how does this relate to LGBTQ issues and public health? Hari Venkatachalam connects his faith, work, heritage, and even his sexual orientation to living in a climate-changed world.

In the episode Hari reveals how extreme weather, which affects everyone, disproportionally impacts LGBTQ homeless youth. Citizens Climate Radio host, Peterson Toscano, explains, 

Up to 40% of youth living on the streets in the United States and Canada are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary. Many of them avoid going to shelters because they assume they will received the same discrimination and hostility they escaped. This is especially true for transgender and gender non-binary young people. This puts them at extra risk during extreme weather events.

Hari Venkatachalam also talks about his faith and the principles handed down to him from his father. Hari is an active member of Sadhana: A Coalition of Progressive Hindus, and his activism focuses on environmental justice, LGBTQ+ issues, and public health. He currently works in Tampa, Florida as a public health researcher for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Kathy Baughman McLeod, SVP, Atlantic Council & Director, Adrienne Arsht - Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, also weighs in to talk about the dangers of extreme heat.

The Art House

Joining us in the Art House is Dr. Krista Hiser, with the first in a series of an occasional feature called The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book cCub. The purpose of the book club is to look at climate-themed literature and consider how it can help us engage differently with interdisciplinary topics and existential threats related to the planetary predicament of climate change. 

 

In this episode Krista reflects on the cli-fi novel, Blaze Island by Catherine Bush, and lets her imagination run wild, as she pulls together some of the greatest minds in climate fiction. 

 

Dr. Krista Hiser is Professor at Kapiʻolani Community College. Her PhD is in Educational Administration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has published on community engagement, service-learning, organizational change, post-apocalyptic and cli-fi literature. 

You can read a written version of Krista’s essay at The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club for Sustainability in Higher Education on Medium. 

You can hear standalone versions of The Art House at Artists and Climate Change

Good News Report

Our good news comes from Anthony Leiserowitz at Yale Climate Connections. You will hear about a new fund which aims to bring more people into the climate conversation. 

We always welcome your thoughts, questions, suggestions, good news, and recommendations for the show. Leave a voice mail at 518.595.9414. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.) You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org  

You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, Podbean, Northern Spirit Radio, Google Play, PlayerFM, and TuneIn Radio. Also, feel free to connect with other listeners, suggest program ideas, and respond to programs in the Citizens’ Climate Radio Facebook group or on Twitter at @CitizensCRadio.

 

CCL Training: Budget Reconciliation Explained

Join CCL Strategy Director Tony Sirna for a background review of the budget reconciliation process, understand how this process might apply to carbon fee and dividend related legislation and review additional climate legislation emerging from the Senate and House packages.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:23) Background on Reconciliation & Filibuster
(4:37) More about Reconciliation & Budget Resolution
(11:53) Carbon Fee & Dividend in Reconciliation
(16:33) Other Climate Policy In Reconciliation 
(33:40) What Have Studies Found?
(39:19) Q&A Discussion

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/reconciliation-explained-slides 
Budget Reconciliation Actions: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/reconciliation-actions 
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/487 

Aaron Cosbey | Citizens‘ Climate Lobby | September 2021 Monthly Meeting

Border carbon adjustments, a mechanism to shield businesses in nations with robust climate ambition, have been a hot topic recently. The European Union has announced it will impose such taxes starting in 2023, and Senate Democrats in the U.S. have included it in the budget reconciliation resolution. To learn more, we turn to Aaron Cosbey with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Aaron is an economist with 30 years of experience in the areas of trade, investment and sustainable development. He has served on the Deputy Minister for International Trade’s Academic Advisory Council on Canadian Trade Policy and recently wrote a report on the need for Canada to adopt a border carbon adjustment.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Welcome
(2:35) Aaron Cosbey
(13:20) Q&A Discussion
(28:11) September Updates & Actions
(30:30) CCL's Strategic Initiatives
(41:04) Carbon Fee & Dividend: How It Works

CCL's September Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet  
September Pre-Call Video: https://vimeo.com/602102372  
IISD Report: www.iisd.org/publications/enabling-climate-ambition-border-carbon-adjustment-canada  
Understanding Border Carbon Adjustments Training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/132