As a key part of Focus the Nation, students and citizens across the country will vote on five priorities for action. Focus teams will deliver this campus and citizen endorsed agenda to congressional offices across the nation, on February 18th, when members of congress are back in their districts for the Presidents Day recess.
click on the link below to vote:
Click on the link above to read about the policies, and add your comments in the forum. The ideas on these pages are just starting points for discussion—there are no magic bullets. Each policy has costs and benefits, and each will create winners and losers. And yet, these ideas are critically important. Some mix of the actions on this page must be implemented soon if we hope to stabilize the climate at 3-4 degrees F. Done right, these actions will also revitalize America’s communities and economy.
Please take this discussion beyond the web site! Hold debates, write newspaper articles and blogs. Help build a base of educated citizens who can support informed, smart action by the United States of America.
According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to hold global warming to the low end (3-4 degrees F), global emissions of CO2 will have to peak in 2025—less than 20 years from now. Granting a 10-year lag for developing countries, this means that developed country emissions, including the US, must peak and begin to decline by 2015. The ideas advanced here are all based on the premise that the US should join the international effort to hold global warming to the low end.