Climate action is a powerful engine for new industries and jobs, and the next challenge for America's Genius

PCAP Cover The Presidential Climate Action Plan
Security, Opportunity, Stewardship

The principal challenge facing the Obama Administration is to rally the nation to create a new 21st century economy. The United States, like other industrialized nations, has arrived at the cusp between two eras. The outgoing era has been powered largely by carbon-rich fossil fuels with an operating ethic of dominion over natural systems. The incoming era will embrace the responsibility of stewardship and will be powered by carbon-free and largely renewable resources. » Read More

Video GraphicFierce Urgency of Now

Bill Becker, the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project presents a two part video depicting what we've learned about climate change over the last three years and what we can do about it.

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Google has launched a new feature that allows people to see the impact of climate change locally.
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Up-to-Date Climate Change News

02/09/2010 08:14 AM
Baltic Sea states seek clean-up; Russia expands oil
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Political and business leaders meet in Helsinki on Wednesday to spur efforts to clean up the Baltic sea, which has suffered from decades of pollution and is a focus of Russia's oil and gas expansion plans.
02/08/2010 01:41 PM
New climate service aims to help business adapt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed new U.S. NOAA Climate Service is meant to help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change, and to spur development of new technologies to cope with it, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday.
02/09/2010 06:19 AM
Price ultimate driver of greener energy use: GE
LONDON (Reuters) - Pricing systems that encourage households to use energy more efficiently are the best way to help consumers to protect the environment, a senior General Electric Co executive said on Tuesday.

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Report Gives Sobering View of Warming's Impact on U.S.

A new U.S. government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation's climate will be like by century's end.

For anyone wondering whether climate change has already hit the United States, a recent U.S. government report says it has — and in a big way.
By Michael D. Lemonick
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Climate Security Index

Climate Security Index

Changes in the Earth's climate are more evident every day, but the United States has failed to act, alone or with allies, to avoid disaster. Addressing the consequences of changes in the Earth's climate is not simply about saving polar bears or preserving the beauty of mountain glaciers, important as those are. Climate change is a threat to our national security.

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The Presidential Climate Action Project and St. Martin's Press of New York have issued a condensed version of PCAP's presidential climate action plan in book form - an early glimpse of what we'll submit to the next President of the United States. The book is available in electronic format to reduce its carbon footprint. It features hyperlinks to many of the studies and other documents on which the plan's recommendations are based. Click here if you'd like to purchase the book. Net proceeds will support PCAP's continuing work on presidential climate leadership.