St. Croix Valley Citizens Climate Lobby - January Meeting

 
Everyone Welcome - Bring a friend and find out what CCL is doing to advocate for a fee and dividend tax!

Citizens Climate Lobby St. Croix Valley

What: “Political Prospects for Putting a Price on Carbon”
Who: Presentation by Adele Morris, Policy Director for Climate and Energy Economics at the Brookings Institution
When: Saturday, January 11, 2014, from 11:45 am to 2 pm
Where: at Family Means, 1875 Northwester Avenue, Stillwater, Mn  - Small Conference Room

On Saturday, January 11, Adele Morris, policy director for Climate and Energy Economics at the Brookings Institution will speak by national conference call to a Citizens Climate Lobby meeting at Family Means small conference room in Stillwater, . Following the presentation by Ms. Morris, there will be discussion of plans for local action on climate change in the coming month. There will be an outline of the Regional Conference for CCL at Macalester College January 24-26 - and a chance to sign up.  Paul Douglas will give the opening speech on Friday Evening (January 24th). Invite your friends to hear about what CCL does and about the conference. 

Adele Morris will speak on “Political Prospects for Putting a Price on Carbon”. Ms. Morris has written recently about  establishing a carbon tax in the U.S. as part of federal tax reform, reporting a study that found that 95% of economists agree that a carbon tax is the most economically efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and advocating for establishment of an international Carbon Pricing Consultation body through which the nations of the world can share the results of their various carbon tax models. (Carbon taxes have been adopted in Sweden, Australia, Finland, Ireland, Norway, and South Africa, and the EU has a major CO2 emissions trading system; India has a small tax on coal, and China is experimenting with cap-and-trade measures at the local and regional level for possible expansion nationwide; Canada also has several sub-national carbon pricing systems.)


Citizens Climate Lobby meetings happen generally on the first Saturday of the month. CCL currently has active Minnesota chapters in Alexandria, Bemidji, Morris, Willmar, St Paul, Wayzata, Dakota County, Edina, St Cloud, Two Harbors and the St Croix Valley. Each month, the locations for all CCL meetings across Minnesota can be seen at www.citizensclimatelobby-mn.org.


Citizens Climate Lobby also is planning a regional conference for the weekend of January 24 to 26. The conference will take place at Macalester College in St Paul, and will feature meteorologist Paul Douglas and CCL Executive Director Mark Reynolds as keynote speakers. Anyone interested in helping to plan other details of the conference is invited to contact Paul Thompson at 952-920-1547.

Citizen Climate Lobby is an organization with local chapters across the U.S.A. and Canada. Its purpose is to create the political will to resolve the problem of climate change.