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Call to Action
Citizens' Climate Lobby is encouraging supporters to contact their Representatives and Senators in Washington DC and let them know you support the retention of Clean Energy Tax Credits that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act. CCL provides an easy way to initiate a call to your Representative and Senator at the following link.
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Who We Are
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit and non-partisan organization that advocates in multiple ways for national legislation supporting climate solutions. We are national in scope, with members and local chapters in every state. We have 16 chapters in Colorado and a strong state leadership team.
Our Pikes Peak chapter includes CCL supporters from communities across the Pikes Peak region, like Colorado Springs, Monument and Florissant. We come from all walks of life, backgrounds, and generations. Our members include working people, college students, new moms and dads, and retired people.
We are citizen volunteers. What unites us is the conviction that ordinary citizens can work together and with our elected representatives to find effective solutions to climate change
What We Do
Citizens' Climate Lobby’s main goal is to advocate with Congress and the President for the passage of effective legislation to address climate change.
Our national organization uses scientists, economists, business analysts and other knowledgeable people to identify the policy solutions most likely to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases sufficiently to avoid the worst impacts of global climate change. They also identify solutions that are fair for families and good for the economy.
Based on this analysis, our areas of focus include working towards a price on carbon, supporting healthy forests, building electrification and efficiency, and clean energy permitting reform.
Why We Do It
Our members have various reasons for working on climate solutions. The ones we hear most often are that they see obvious and big changes in the world now, like devastating wildfires, extreme weather, and extraordinary drought, that threaten our health, personal safety, economic security and way of life. They care deeply about their children and grandchildren, or other younger family members. They don’t ignore or rationalize away the obvious trends and risks. They know that solutions exist, and it’s just a matter of working together to implement the solutions now.
How We Do It
Our elected representatives and their staff tell us that they listen to constituents and desire constructive constituent input on climate change solutions. So, we engage directly with our elected officials, and ask our business leaders, neighbors, friends and family members to help. We have citizen lobbying teams that meet regularly with our Senators and Congresspeople and their staff. We participate in highly effective and focused email and telephone calling campaigns. We write letters to the editor and guest editorials in local and national newspapers. We use social media. We have conversations with people in our community about climate and climate solutions.
Each month, we have a regular chapter meeting, where we discuss topics related to climate and climate solutions, including pending legislation and focused actions we can take, together or as individuals.
Our meetings provide a place where people of all backgrounds can come together, feel welcome, build relationships, and take away a feeling of optimism and hope.
We operate in accordance with the goals of the national Citizens’ Climate Lobby organization. We use the collective strength of this organization to develop policy that will reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, preserve and protect our natural environment, and provide a healthy and prosperous future for our children and grandchildren. See our national website at www.cclusa.org.
Citizens' Climate Lobby Policy Agenda
We advocate for a Carbon Fee and Dividend (CF&D) with a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), to lower emissions and deliver abundant and affordable clean energy to Americans.
We support preserving and expanding forests and climate-smart forestry, as well as advocating for increasing urban forests, with a focus on neighborhoods that are negatively impacted by a lack of tree equity.
We educate the public and elected officials on the importance of electrification and efficiency and how they can accelerate the transition to clean energy buildings, with attention to supporting low- and middle-income households in that transition.
We work to increase America’s capacity to transmit clean energy and speed up the approval of clean energy projects, while preserving communities’ ability to give input.
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Our Core Values
The Pikes Peak Regional affiliate of Citizens' Climate Lobby conducts all business in conformance with a recognized set of core values that define the conduct of our national organization and individual team members.
Focus
We are focused on supporting the passage of legislation that will reduce elevated greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, like the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act and the Growing Climate Solutions Act. We know that working on legislation can be a long, hard road, but we are resilient and persistent, and we know that by working together we can have a huge impact.
Optimism
We are positive thinkers, focused on solutions. We believe the climate challenges we see today, and those that are projected for the future, are solvable. We firmly believe that reducing elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will help ensure a safe and healthy future for our families and communities, our farms, ranches, and businesses, and the natural environment we in Colorado love and depend on.
Relationships
We work together to build postive, cooperative relationships with government, business and our local communities. We communicate in a respectful way. We see the best in others, listen to their ideas and learn from them, and seek common ground.
Integrity
In all of our activities we subscribe to the very highest standards of honesty and ethical personal and business behavior.
Personal Power
We believe in the power and potential of our individual team members. We believe human potential to be unlimited.
Diversity
We believe there is power to be realized through celebration and leveraging of cultural, ethnic, and religious differences. We all have an important part to play.
Nonpartisan
Working together is far more productive than remaining apart. We need the cooperation and support of all political parties to be successful. Our members come from across the political spectrum: we are progressives, conservatives and moderates who work together across party lines to solve climate change.
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Social Media Team
Our Social Media Action Team leverages the communication technologies of major social media platforms in order to solicit and share information related to our current environmental challenges.
The information exchanged serves as a catalyst to lead to the discovery of innovative solutions for climate complications.
Endorsement Team
Our Endorsement Team is establishing cooperative partnerships with local business, community, religious and non-profit leaders in order to generate organizational support for the goals articulated by Citizens' Climate Lobby.
These endorsements help influence the development of organizational policy changes that benefit our environment.
Lobbying Team
Our lobby team interacts with elected officials and their staff to encourage support for legislation that benefits our environment. We are currently working with national, state, and local officials to encourage their direct support of legislation supporting the goals of CCL.
Other Team Activities
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Hola!
Le damos la bienvenida a Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) o Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible. Somos una organización sin fines de lucro, no partidista, enfocada en abordar legislaciones nacionales que aborden y reduzcan los efectos del cambio climático. En Colorado Springs, tenemos reuniones mensuales en el segundo jueves de cada mes, de 5:30-6:30 p.m. (Tiempo Montaña), en línea por Zoom. Si usted quiere asistir a una de nuestras reuniones, por favor, envié un mensaje electrónico en la página “Contact Us.” Aunque nuestras reuniones mensuales son en inglés, ¡esperamos que pueda unirse a nosotros!
Si a usted le interesa leer acerca de nuestra organización en español, por favor, mire el sitio web nacional en español, climavivible.org. Para enviar un mensaje electrónico en español a nuestra organización o si usted quiere hablar en español con una persona de nuestra organización, escriba a espanol@climavivible.org.
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Please let us know if you have any questions or would like more specific information on our team.
Bill Support
Bills now active in the 119th Congress
This section will be populated as bills are introduced in the 119th Congress.
Please Help
We believe solutions to climate change originate with the knowledge and actions of individuals that morph into a wave of groundswell support that significantly influences our elected officials. Our team members are all active in efforts to educate our political, community and busines leaders on the need to take action on climate change. You can make a difference and we encourage you to do so. Your support is both necessary and will be highly valued.
Take Action Today
Citizens Climate Lobby offers a number of tools that allow for easy communication between you and your Congress-person or Senator.
It’s time to spread the word on social media about the groundbreaking Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act - Powering America Forward To Clean Energy.
Get started by following the Citizens’ Climate Lobby on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Join the Social Media Action Team to get more involved with this topic and connect with other CCL volunteers.
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