PCAP Advisory Committee
The Presidential Climate Action Project is a two-year, $2 million initiative administered by the Wirth Chair, School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. The project is guided by a prestigious National Advisory Committee chaired by Ray Anderson, former co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development and founder and chairman of the board of Interface Inc. in Atlanta, Ga.
The Committee's ground rules do not require consensus; rather, the Committee has urged the project team to push the envelope of public policy as far as the urgency of the climate and energy issues requires. In other words, while the project's advisors do not all agree with all of the plan's proposals, they agree on the need for boldness.
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Members of the National Advisory Committee are:
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Ray Anderson, PCAP Chair Founder and Chairman of the Board Interface Inc. |
D. James Baker, Ph.D. Director, Global Carbon Measurement Program William J. Clinton Foundation Former Administrator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
Scott Bernstein President Center for Neighborhood Technology |
Brian Castelli Executive Vice President Alliance to Save Energy |
April Bucksbaum Vice President The Baum Foundation |
Boyd Gibbons Immediate Past President Johnson Foundation |
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley Chair Plains Justice |
Sheila Slocum Hollis Partner Duane Morris LLP |
Gary Hart U.S. Senator (Ret.) Wirth Chair, University of Colorado Denver |
William C. Kunkler III Executive Vice President CC Industries, Inc. |
Van Jones Board President & Co-Founder Ella Baker Center for Human Rights |
Michael Northrop Program Director, Sustainable Development Rockefeller Brothers Fund |
Hunter Lovins President Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc. |
Theodore Roosevelt IV Chair Pew Center on Global Climate Change |
David Orr Paul Sears Distinguished Professor Environmental Studies and Politics Oberlin College |
James Gustave "Gus" Speth Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University |
John L. Petersen President The Arlington Institute |
Admiral Richard H. Truly (U.S. Navy Ret.) Former Administrator, NASA Former Director, NREL |
Larry Schweiger President and CEO National Wildlife Federation |
Jeremy Symons Director Global Warming Campaign - National Wildlife Federation |
Terry Tamminen Cullman Senior Fellow and Climate Policy Director New America Foundation |
Heidi VanGenderen Senior Policy Advisor Colorado Governor's Office |
A number of additional national experts have contributed ideas for the PCAP as participants in the
National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America.
The PCAP Advisory Committee provides invaluable guidance in selecting and framing the action items in the presidential plan. However, final decisions about the PCAP's content are made by the project's Executive Director. The Advisory Committee has chosen not to seek consensus on the PCAP's recommendations, in part because consensus is unlikely on so many action items and in part because as it aligns with the lowest common denominator among policy options, consensus can be the enemy of boldness. As a result, not all Advisory Committee members agree with all PCAP recommendations. The Committee is unanimous, however, in supporting the need for courageous, comprehensive and timely climate action by the next President of the United States.
The Presidential Climate Action Project is administered by a team based at the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs in Denver. That team consists of:
