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 The PCL Foundation—with its project partners, the Planning and Conservation League (PCL) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF)—is working to make California a national leader in efforts to reduce global warming pollution. Success in establishing effective policies in California will have an enormous impact both within the state and beyond. The California Climate Outreach Campaign will become a sustained, statewide education, and advocacy effort, strategically designed to advance vital state, regional, and national initiatives to combat global warming.
One specific program area of this statewide Campaign is the Local Climate Action Initiative, which has been established to focus on the local level, and to ensure that local governments do not make the global warming problem worse while California Air Resources Board (CARB) struggles to make it better. The Initiative will create a venue for local community leaders who now feel a sense of urgency about addressing the warming of the planet but remain unaware of the tools currently available to them to create substantive global warming victories. To some degree, we expect our efforts, focused at the local level, to have state level “spin off” effects, but our project is essentially aimed where we think we can have maximum impact – at the level of local community and local government action.
The major coalition-building, education, and outreach objectives of the Local Climate Action Initiative include:
- Building an informed and engaged constituency to advocate for bold local public policy solutions to our climate change emergency.
- Developing a toolkit of education and advocacy materials to support the passage of local policies that combat the global warming pollution from new developments.
- Uniting these grassroots leaders into a network of global warming action advocates.
For more information on the California Climate Outreach Campaign or Local Climate Action Initiative, please contact Matt Vander Sluis.
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