Climate Initiative
In partnership with US Climate Task Force:
Towards an Effective Price on Carbon
Future 500 has engaged a broad set of stakeholders – corporate and NGO officials from the left to the right. Key leaders agree: a price on carbon is an economic, security, fiscal, and environmental imperative. There is greater bipartisan support than political pundits contend – but we must be patient, strategic, and prepared. A revenue-neutral price on carbon can pass the U.S. Senate and House, perhaps as early as 2013. To do so will require a systematic drive to earn environmental, business, and bipartisan support.
Toward this end, Future 500 has quietly brought together over 140 companies, NGOs, and investors, who have shaped common principles for a price on carbon. We have crafted two core policy principles that can unite the bipartisan political support needed for climate policy that is friendly to people, the economy, and the environment.
Help move climate protection forward by signing on to the two Climate Principles. And if you want do more, tell us and we'll show you how.
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Principles To Guide Effective Climate Policy
Action to protect global climate is vital. To help guide our way, we join together to support core principles that will help us move forward. Our national climate policy must reflect:
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A PRICE ON CARBON. To be effective, a price on carbon (whether a fee or tax) needs to be direct, upstream, steadily increasing, and calibrated to reduce emissions to levels called for by climate science consensus, with border adjustments or other mechanisms to reflect differences in carbon prices and policies in other nations.
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A DIVIDEND OR TAX REDUCTION TO CONSUMERS. The vast majority of revenues are to be returned to consumers, either directly ("dividend") or via tax reductions ("tax shift"), with a small portion allocated to a single fund for climate purposes such as transition assistance for affected communities; international adaptation, mitigation, research, and development; low-carbon energy research; and targeted cost-effective energy efficiency investments.
A current example of legislation that embodies this principle is America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2009 by Rep. John B. Larson
Signatories Include
Join Future 500
Future 500 is engaging directly with the business, NGO, investor, and expert stakeholders who need to work together, to establish an effective price on carbon. By joining as a Future 500 partner, you can be BETTER INFORMED, PREPARED, CONNECTED, and ultimately INFLUENTIAL on federal climate policy. We will provide you with:
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STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE of how to unite the interests of a wide range of stakeholders - companies, NGOs, activists and experts - from the left to the right - so you can find common ground.
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STAKEHOLDER MAPS that show the complex dynamics among climate stakeholders, and enable better planning and alliance-building.
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STRATEGIC MEETINGS - one-on-one and small group gatherings that bring together the stakeholders who need each other to advance climate policy.
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STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS - introductions and connections to leaders that you can work closely with, to align and advance mutual objectives.
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GENUINE ALLIES - important, both now and in the future, to enhance your influence and credibility across a range of issues.
Partners
Partners include:
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U.S. Climate Task Force
- Robert Shapiro, former Undersecretary of Commerce
- Elaine Kamarck, former chief of staff for V.P. Al Gore
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The Climate Group
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister (UK), founder
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor (NY), co-founder of The Climate Group's Together campaign
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor (CA), co-founder of The Climate Group's Together campaign
Climate Stakeholder Directory
Below is a representative directory of key stakeholders in this issue, most of which we have engaged. Click an entry to visit their website.
NOTE: The stakeholder organizations and individuals shown above does NOT imply any formal association with one another or with Future 500, with the occasional exception that some may be one of our partners.
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