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The people involved in the Alliance have a track-record of breaking through the din of background noise on issues related to climate change. They also bring with them substantial cross-sectoral experience covering government (both public service and political), business (including energy, technology, finance and media), and civil society (within and beyond the environmental communities). We will be completely non-partisan in pursuing our mission.
Board of Directors and Advisory Committee: The Alliance for Climate Protection has a highly experienced Board of Directors. The bipartisan Board has combined decades of experience in alliance-building with Wall Street, religious communities, local government, entertainment and other constituencies not traditionally engaged in environmental issues.
The Chairman of the Board, Al Gore, has been an advocate and leader for climate action for over 30 years.
Staff: The Alliance staff is equipped with decades of top-notch experience in private sector marketing, advertising and communications as well as a deep technical, policy and institutional understanding of climate change. As professionals, they combine the discipline and focus of the commercial world with the passion of focusing on an issue critical to the future of the globe.
Partners: Dozens of highly successful business-people, media professionals, entertainers, religious leaders, academics and NGO leaders have pledged their support to the Alliance’s mission. We will draw on their individual and collective expertise. The Alliance is also partnering with the group that produced last year’s global ‘Live 8’ concert to stage a round-the-world climate change musical event and call-to-action on 7/7/07.
Our mission is to persuade the American people — and people elsewhere in the world – of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.
The Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise based on scientific facts. Through a new combination of non-partisan alliances with Americans from all walks of life and innovative and far-reaching communication techniques the Alliance will focus on presenting the facts about climate change and its solutions to the general public in an accurate, clear and compelling manner.
Americans have always risen to meet the most important challenges to our nation’s and the world’s future. Together, we can address the climate challenge domestically and provide a robust economy for now and for our children.
The Alliance will persuade people of the importance, urgency and feasibility of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.
We established the Alliance for Climate Protection as a new single-purpose organization to persuade people of the importance, urgency and feasibility of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis. Our efforts will include:
- Moving the USA past a ‘tipping point’, beyond which the majority of leaders in both major political parties and all sectors of civil society compete to offer genuinely effective proposals, policies, programs and laws that will sharply reduce emissions of CO2, methane and other greenhouse gas pollutants.
- Creating a critical mass of public opinion in support of active US participation in the international effort to enact a genuinely effective new treaty to reduce global greenhouse gas pollution.
- Generating overwhelming support—within the US and around the globe—for new American leadership in the international efforts to solve the climate crisis.
- Persuading individuals, families, communities, states, corporations and other organizations to begin to quickly and meaningfully reduce their own global warming pollution — and to offset the remainder – in order to become ‘carbon neutral.’
Not interested in institutional longevity for its own sake, we expect that once these objectives have been met, other established organizations can carry on the work as necessary and that the Alliance will no longer need to exist as a stand-alone entity.
The Alliance is committed to working collaboratively with an extensive cross-section of groups to advance our shared objectives.
We will build alliances with Americans from all walks of life.
The environmental community has been a key force behind the establishment of such a singularly-focused organization, with leading organizations pledging to work collaboratively to support our goals.
Importantly, other groups outside the environmental movement have also played key roles. The Alliance is committed to working collaboratively with an extensive cross-section of groups to advance our shared objectives.
ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
