Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) is a non-profit organization with hundreds of chapters in the US that aims to build political support for climate action through respectful lobbying of members of Congress, writing letters and op-eds, and community outreach. CCL advocates for bipartisan carbon fee and dividend legislation that places a fee on fossil fuels and returns the revenue to citizens through monthly dividends to offset costs, while also adopting border adjustments to discourage carbon leakage. The document argues this plan is a viable political solution supported by economists as the most effective market-based mechanism to curb emissions growth.

1. Wish you were here
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
CCL has hundreds of chapters in the
U.S. with citizens like you who are
building a political will for a livable
world:
 Lobbying respectfully with all
members of Congress
 Writing op-eds and letters to the
editor
 Coordinating community support
for climate legislation
 Building trust by using a non-
confrontational approach
 Involving concerned citizens in
letter-writing campaigns
 Meeting monthly to learn,
practice, celebrate, and act
Visit:
CitizensClimateLobby.org
Listen:
To a one-hour informational conference
call: Wednesdays, 5pm MST
1-866-642-1665
Passcode: 440699
Connect:
Tempe@citizensclimatelobby.org
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby at
Arizona State University
If you want to join the fight to save the
planet, to save creation for your
grandchildren, there is no more effective
step you could take than becoming an
active member of this group.
- Dr James E. Hansen, Climatologist &
former director of NASA Goddard Institute
ASU STUDENTS
Our climate is warming.
The challenge is too big to
handle locally.
Politicians must pass
bipartisan legislation.
Your voice is
their political will.

2. Why join CCL at ASU?
 Experience your power to influence
Congress.
 Gain tools and experience for
lobbying in a constructive manner.
 Get the latest info on current
bipartisan action in Congress.
 Be notified of effective responses
to Congressional action.
 Learn how to write letters to the
editor and get them published.
 Be empowered to talk comfortably
and non-combatively to friends and
strangers about the problems and
solutions to global warming.
 Set your own schedule for how
much time you have to volunteer
addressing this concern.
 Bring skills from your field of study
and your personal creativity to
CCL’s outreach.
 Have fun together while doing
significant work to ensure a
livable planet for the future.
 Meet new friends with similar
interests.
What does
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
want from Congress?
 Our volunteers are lobbying for
Carbon Fee and Dividend
legislation that will:
 Place a fee on fossil fuels at the
source: well, mine, or port of entry,
which will increase each year.
 Distribute all revenues to U.S.
households in a monthly dividend
to offset higher energy costs.
 Adopt a border tariff adjustment to
level the playing field with our
trading partners, and to discourage
businesses from relocating abroad.
 Allow the market to set the most
economical way to smoothly
transition to a new energy system.
Why do we think this plan is
politically viable?
 Climatologists and top economists –
liberal and conservative – say that
placing a price on carbon is the most
effective action possible to curb CO2
production.
 Bipartisan action addressing global
warming is happening in Congress right
now.
 A carbon fee-and-dividend plan is the
most transparent and enforceable
mechanism.
 This market-based program fits with our
current economic system and much of
our political system.
 Many businesses already anticipate a
carbon tax in some form and are
pushing for uniform legislation.
 Because of the dividend, this plan does
not increase the size of government.
 According to a study by REMI, this plan
will stabilize the climate and boost the
economy – both for the individual family
and the GDP.