Join us for a virtual panel and discussion of how League members can be part of one or more of the LWVUS’s ten new Climate Teams including Carbon Pricing. Hear a brief overview of the two major carbon pricing mechanisms – cap and trade or carbon tax/fee & dividend. Learn how Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ Education works to create the political will for its preferred carbon pricing approach.
This introduction, with a short Q&A, may help you decide if and how you might add your strengths to the
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Join us for a virtual panel and discussion of how League members can be part of one or more of the LWVUS’s ten new Climate Teams including Carbon Pricing. Hear a brief overview of the two major carbon pricing mechanisms – cap and trade or carbon tax/fee & dividend. Learn how Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ Education works to create the political will for its preferred carbon pricing approach.
This introduction, with a short Q&A, may help you decide if and how you might add your strengths to the effort to solve this most pressing problem of our current and future generations.
Some League climate history – from the LWVUS July 2020 Virtual Convention.
“The LWVUS calls for an immediate, wide-scale, mobilization by the United States, to restore, protect and fund an ecologically sustainable environment and climate, based on an interrelated approach that is environmentally sound, science-based, just and equitable, dedicated to adequately addressing the scale and speed of the global climate change emergency.”
As a result of this commitment, the LWVUS has formed a new Climate Team with 24 Steering Committee members. It joins League members working on climate issues in various ways, including League education efforts by the Climate Change Task Force since 2006 and attention to putting a price on carbon starting in earnest in 2014.
The LWV position on carbon pricing, which was adopted in 2018, states “The League of Women Voters stands united with, and in support of, efforts to price carbon emissions, whether cap-and-trade, carbon tax/fee, or another viable pricing mechanism. The League does not have a position on how the revenue generated is to be used. We do not espouse any single method of pricing carbon over another. We will evaluate all proposed methods based on their effectiveness to abate emissions and whether the method can be successfully implemented.”
Although the LWV doesn’t endorse any specific pricing mechanism or revenue distribution at this point, we aim to educate ourselves about the options. The work of Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ Education provides one concrete example of some of the issues, activities and anticipated results involved in putting a price on carbon.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ and Education are the two arms of a major and well-organized nonpartisan push that exists to create the political will for climate solutions. By training and mobilizing a powerful coalition of climate advocates, CCL and CCE enable individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power to work for long-lasting climate solutions. The focus of CCL is to advocate for a carbon fee and dividend, as introduced in the 2019-2020 Congress in the bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 763 which had 86 co-sponsors. CCL fully expects a similar bill to be introduced in the new Congress.
Change is inevitable, its direction is not. Whatever you do, give it all that you’ve got!
Join us on January 12, 2021 to discuss and learn more. Register to attend at https://bit.ly/2KBW6yv
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