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.
Google Earth
Google has launched a new feature that allows people to see the impact of climate change locally.Go »
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.
Central Appalachian Prosperity Project
This one-year project gathered ideas on how the four states in the Central Appalachian region can make the transition to a clean and sustainable energy economy.
Read the press releaese, click here.Read the final report, click here.
Support Climate Action
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Updating the Presidential Climate Action Plan
PCAP has received new grants from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Interface Environmental Foundation to update the comprehensive climate and energy action plan we presented to the Obama Transition Team in November 2008. Watch this site for fresh proposals on how the Administration can lead the nation -- and the world -- on climate mitigation and adaptation.
From Copenhagen Accord to Climate Action: Tracking National Commitments to Curb Global Warming
Natural Resources Defense Council has created this page to track the progress of the national commitments that were part of the Copenhagen Accord.
Courtesy of National Resource Defense Council
Report Gives Sobering View of Warming's Impact on U.S.
A recent U.S. government report offers a sobering appraisal of how climate change is affecting the United States today, and what it's impacts are likely to be in the future.
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
Climate Security Index
Changes in the Earth's climate are more evident every day, but the United States has failed to act, alone or with allies, to avoid disaster. Addressing the consequences of changes in the Earth's climate is not simply about saving polar bears or preserving the beauty of mountain glaciers, important as those are. Climate change is a threat to our national security.
Read more and download the full report »
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.