Climate action is a powerful engine for new industries and jobs, and the next challenge for America's Genius
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The Presidential Climate Action Plan Security, Opportunity, Stewardship The principal challenge facing the Obama Administration is to rally the nation to create a new 21st century economy. The United States, like other industrialized nations, has arrived at the cusp between two eras. The outgoing era has been powered largely by carbon-rich fossil fuels with an operating ethic of dominion over natural systems. The incoming era will embrace the responsibility of stewardship and will be powered by carbon-free and largely renewable resources. » Read More |
Fierce Urgency of Now
Bill Becker, the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project presents a two part video depicting what we've learned about climate change over the last three years and what we can do about it.
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About PCAP
The American people and the world community are watching closely for indications of how President Obama addresses Global Climate Change. The Presidential Climate Action Project has developed a bold, comprehensive and non-partisan plan for presidential leadership rooted in climate science and designed to ignite innovation at every level of the American economy.
PCAP is an initiative of the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs. Its objective is to provide the President with background information and educational materials on global warming, including a broad menu of diverse policy and program options for national leadership. The project does not advocate on behalf of specific climate policies, programs, spending or other actions by the President or the Federal government.
Up-to-Date Climate Change News
11/20/2009 09:08 AMCurbs to ship pollution would stoke global warming, study says
OSLO (Reuters) - Shipping is slowing climate change by spewing out sunlight-dimming pollution but a clean-up needed to safeguard human health will stoke global warming, experts said Friday.
Feared Asian carp may be near U.S. Great Lakes
CHICAGO (Reuters) - There are signs Asian carp may have breached barriers designed to keep the prolific fish out of the Great Lakes, which could spell ecological disaster for the vital source of fresh water, authorities said on Friday.
UN climate chief seeks $10 bln rich-nations pledge
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of climate change.
Report Gives Sobering View of Warming's Impact on U.S.
A new U.S. government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation's climate will be like by century's end.
For anyone wondering whether climate change has already hit the United States, a recent U.S. government report says it has — and in a big way.
By Michael D. Lemonick
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The Presidential Climate Action Project and St. Martin's Press of New York have issued a condensed version of PCAP's presidential climate action plan in book form - an early glimpse of what we'll submit to the next President of the United States. The book is available in electronic format to reduce its carbon footprint. It features hyperlinks to many of the studies and other documents on which the plan's recommendations are based. Click here if you'd like to purchase the book. Net proceeds will support PCAP's continuing work on presidential climate leadership.
Resources for the Obama Administration
PCAP has created a "one-stop-shop" of climate and energy policy recommendations that have been developed for the Obama transition team by other organizations. Go »
