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The Citizens’ Climate Story

1) Establishment (Marshall Saunders – Founder CCL) 3 Slides

2) CCL Carbon Pricing Proposal (Carbon Fee & Dividend) 1 Slide

Howard Witt

CCL Volunteer

3) CCL USA Activity (Conference & HP 763) 1 Slide

5) CCL Australia Activity 1 Slide

4) CCL Community (Web based resourced) 1 Slide

6) CCL Australia Hume Group

Goulburn area – Angus Taylor Electorate – Minister for Energy & Emissions Reduction

(7 Slides – to skip through)

7) Our Challenge 1 Slide

howard@ccl.org.au

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Marshall Saunders – Founder CCL

Marshall Saunders

1961 - Graduate of the

University of TEXAS

with a BA in Economics Retired from Real Estate

business in 1990,

20 yr in Navy

For 19 years he focused on Microcredit and

Village Banking – to address poverty

Went to Bangladesh to

met Muhammad Yunus

He raised $ by speaking to more than 150 Rotary

Clubs and to five Rotary International Conventions.

Service Above Self

Active with RESULTS, an International citizens lobby.

Advocates for more and better foreign aid especially

microcredit, global health basic education.

http://us.climaterealityproject.org/presenter/marshall-saunders_225

2009 Grameen Foundation Humanitarian Award.

1998-1999 he received the Rotary Distinguished Service Award

Member of Congress, acknowledge RESULTS volunteers as

respectful, persistent, helpful & Effective

http://www.results.org/

Respectful, Persistent, Helpful & EffectiveSam Daley-Harris

Self-made successful US Businessman who

became a dedicated effective Philanthropist.

Self-made successful US

Businessman who became a

dedicated effective Philanthropist.

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The Land of Rivers & Climate Reality

This will un-doo all the Good Work we have done

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh

Dominated by the fertile Bengal delta

The World's Largest Delta.

People's Republic of Bangladesh

গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাাংলাদাশ

"The land of rivers"

Watched: 4 times in 10 days

Shattered

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60551000/jpg/_60551915_green_boat_g.jpg

The Ice will Melt & sea

level rise many feet

Storms will be Worse

Will un-doo all the Good Work we have Done!!

So many wonderful

people working so

hard to improve

their family’s life

Trained personally by

The Honorable Al Gore to give

The Climate Project presentation

(Nashville in January of 2007).

Gave more than 40 talks to over

2,700 people in 10 months.

2006 “The Inconvenient Truth”

was showing in US Theatres

Philanthropist disturbed about

climate impacts on many good folk.

Now also Dedicated Climate Reality Presenter

Philanthropist Disturbed about

Climate Impacts on many good folk.

Now also Dedicated

Climate Reality Presenter

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“After I had given just a few talks about the climate,

I realized that the Actions I was Suggesting to my Listeners to take,

while Essential, were NOT a Match for the Problem.”

While I suggested ways for

People to reduce their use of carbon.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp

Congress extended a law that

gave $18 billion in Subsidies

to Oil and Coal companies.

“I realized that anything they intended to do would be Swamped

by what the Government did or did not do.”

I realized that Ordinary people like me would

have to:

• Organize,

• Educate Ourselves,

• Give up our Hopelessness and

Powerlessness, and

• Gain the Skills to be Effective with our

Government.

The purposes of CCL are:

1) To create the Political Will for a Stable and Sustainable Climate

2) To Empower Individuals to have Breakthroughs in Exercising

their Personal and Political Power.

Oct, 2007 - Marshall Saunders started Citizens Climate Lobby.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Founder

Citizens’ Climate

Lobby Founder

2009 Marshall attended a congressional briefing by eminent

economists and scientists including Dr James Hansen

proposing a Carbon Fee and Dividend carbon pricing policy.

“And for the first time ever, I felt like we

were lobbying on a solution that was a

match for the problem.”

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The A B C of Fee & Dividend

Fossil Fuels

Petroleum Gas Coal

Progressively

More Competitive

Production & Supply of

Goods & Services

Scale & Innovation

Reducing Cost

The additional spending will

boost Local Economies

B) All money

paid equally to

Households

Dividend

Fee

A) Annually Increasing Fee Charged

at Source for CO2 Generated

Carbon Fees

Trust Fund

(Not a

Tax)

Increasing

Cost

Progressively Less Competitive

Yearly Increase

Investment

Certainty

D) IMPORTS will pay a

TARIFF.

For countries

WITHOUT

an equivalent

Carbon Price

C) EXPORTS of Goods

receive Fee REBATE.

Provide Incentive for ALL

to adopt Carbon Fees

Stop countries without

carbon pricing Getting

Advantages

Tariffs

Rebates

Border

Adjustments

C) Level Playing Field

Most people will be better off financially

Renewable

Energy

Households

Paying the true Social Costs of fossil fuel Drives Transition to Safe Alternatives.

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CCL USA – Conference & Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019

2019 Conference Photo 763

CCL Volunteers work to promote this Carbon Pricing Bill

First Carbon Pricing in US Congress for 10 years

Similar Bill before US Senate

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What Groups Do - Levers of Political Will

Lobbying

Media

Grassroots Outreach

Grasstops Outreach

Chapter Development

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The CCL Community provides web-based Training &

Resources to Support with these Volunteer Activities

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Australian Activity – On “Levers of Political Will”

Politicians don’t create political will

they respond to it

Letter Writing and Media

Outreach to Business

& Community Leaders

Facebook Poster

Admin/Moderator

Lobbying

Australian Financial Review Letters to the Editor - Jim Allen SA

MP Liaison Research workLobby Team

Member

Identify and build relationships

with key influencers of and/or

donors to your MP

Outreach to the General Community

Invite & Mentor

new members

Help organise

monthly meetings

CCL Team Development

Politicians don’t create

political will they respond to it

Nell Azuri … why so many people never

talk to anyone about climate change, and

shows you how to break the silence in a

positive way.

Write Letters

& Submissions

Talking to

Friends

Tabling

Presentations

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Quick Overview of AUS NSW Hume Group Activities – Recent Meetings & Guest Speakers

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Sample of One of the Phil Graham’s Slides

Smoothed Measured

Data to show Trends

Measured Data Compared to

IPCC Models & Predictions

Clear Observed Trend of

Decreasing

Rainfall

Increasing

Temperatures

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Snippet of Group Newsletter with Links to Green Initiatives

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Snippet of Group Activity Promotion on Local Paper

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Next CCL Meeting in Goulburn Soldiers Club

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Each Person Can Make an Impact

In May this year a friend visiting from Canada described CCL to Ian

Ian joined and found others keen to get activated also.

5th National Conference & Lobby Days

14 to 17 September 2019

What you say matters.

People: Think about what they Hear about &

Act on what they are Thinking about.

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Climate challenges we need to address

1. Mitigation

● Turn off the tap = lower our

carbon emissions.

● The first priority is to price

carbon or cap it.

● Must be done nationally.

● We can do it quickly… with

enough political will.

2. Sequestration

● Remove water already in the

tub = Remove excess CO2

already in the atmosphere.

● Forests, oceans, and soil do it.

● Humans need to do it, too.

● New technologies required.

3. Adaptation

● Protect tub rims from

overflowing water = Adjust

to rising seas, drought,

wildfires, etc.

● Raising streets, building

levees, cutting fire lanes

● Localities & states are

already doing this.

● Federal help is needed.

4. Restoration

● Repair damage done – Maria,

flooding, wildfires, etc.

● Our federal failure to act has

caused this!

Join at www.ccl.org.au

● Share Resources

● Work in Effective Fun Teams

● Help Create the Political Will

for Effective Solutions

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Late Final Extra – by pure Happenstance I attended

https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2019/05/29/finland-climate-youth-summit-students/Students from 70 countries gather in Finland for climate summit

https://www.facebook.com/FinnishEmbassyCanberra

Nina Suomi and Mirjam Ligi

13.15 Tuning into the discussion

13.25 ENO World Summit of Students for Climate Change presentation

Zoe and Emily, students from Sunshine Beach State High School, QLD

Yle News Finland, 29 May 2019

Nearly 200 school children and 90 teachers from around the world poured into the North Karelian region

of eastern Finland for the World Summit of Students for Climate 2019 (WSSC) on Wednesday. The event

aims to include young voices in the climate change conversation, challenge the Paris Climate Accord of

2016 and vote on a joint agreement.

…. founded by Mika Vanhanen, a primary school teacher in North Karelia, in 2000.

To date, around 10,000 schools from almost 160 countries have participated in its activities.

Zoe and Emily Described how they had prepared 5 of 20min Powerpoint presentation

which were shown in regular classes during class time to the entire school

Timeout at the Embassy of Finland, September 30

13.00 Opening words

Ambassador Lars Backström

13.10 Welcome + instructions

Nina Suomi and Mirjam Ligi

“What stops us from listening to the youth in climate change discussion?”

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Timeout topic - “What stops us from listening to the youth in climate change discussion?”

A) Many Silent as Unaware

B) Some Overwhelmed

C) Youth Leadership Needed

Alex Pan an Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC)

D) Inadequate Understanding of Potential Cost of Inaction

Australia Institute described their HeatWatch initiative

E) Inadequate Role Models/Success Stories

Shane Rattenbury, ACT Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability

F) Technological Options not Understood by Youth

G) Economic Options not Understood by Youth

H) Historic Perspective

Many of the great Australian natural wonders, and historical landmarks were saved from by activists many of them youthful at that time.

A lot of the improvements related to improving youth abilities & confidence

- Schools, teachers & the curriculum impacts were highlighted

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From CCL Community Blog - Teaching Climate Change in Schools

Debbie Dingell

Grace Meng

Empower our

students to make

better decisions

Julia Brownley

Simply share

the truthNanette Diaz

Barragán

Knowledge

is Power

Student -Kate Roney

Climate Neglect is Child

Neglect …

Teach us the skills to

save ourselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzACXslk4Y4

Student

–Christian Fernandes

Congresswomen