Alliance for Climate Protection

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The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States. With more than five million members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Through its work with The Climate Project, Repower America, the WE Campaign, the Reality Coalition, and its affiliated organization, The Climate Protection Action Fund, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations

Overview

The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States. With more than five million members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Through its work with The Climate Project, Repower America, the WE Campaign, the Reality Coalition, and its affiliated organization, The Climate Protection Action Fund, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations.

The Alliance draws together a diverse range of individuals and organizations by acting on its belief that the climate crisis impacts every one of us and transcends differences between political parties, faiths, geographies and cultures. The Alliance partners with organizations from a broad cross-section of society including representatives of labor, faith, business, schools, women, agriculture, sportsmen and many other communities. In so doing, the Alliance brings together faces and voices in a way that diversifies and strengthens the global network of concerned individuals who want to take action now on climate issues.

On March 5, 2010 the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, two organizations founded by former Vice President Al Gore, announced that they were officially uniting their programs and activities under The Alliance for Climate Protection. The integration brought together the Alliance’s more than 5 million members and supporters with The Climate Project’s global reach to create one of the largest non-profit climate change education and advocacy organizations in the world. The unified organization encompasses: official branches in 8 countries; more than 200 staff working in over 30 offices across the United States; more than 3000 volunteers personally trained by Vice President Gore in 55 countries who have raised awareness amongst a growing global community of more than 7 million people.

The Alliance is guided by a prestigious, bipartisan Board of Directors that includes three Nobel Prize winners and accomplished veterans from the worlds of business, politics and environmental advocacy.

Projects

Through its work with The Climate Project, Repower America, the WE Campaign and the Reality Coalition, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations.

Repower America

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Repower America launched in 2008 by Former Vice President Al Gore in a pioneering speech that hit the reset button on America’s clean energy goals with a bold plan to “repower” our country and revitalize our national energy infrastructure. At its core, Repower America advocates investment in energy efficiency, clean renewable energy sources, a unified smart energy national grid and clean car technology.

Repower America empowers individuals by allowing them to speak out in their own words and share their support for a cleaner planet and a revolutionary energy future. A multimedia effort centered on a virtual online organizing campaign, including the Repower Wall which combines the power of traditional and new media tools with the strength of on the ground grassroots and grasstops organizing. The Wall helps amplify individual voices in innovative ways to create a powerful and undeniable collective force for change.

As part of the Repower America campaign, The Alliance for Climate Protection and the Climate Protection Action Fund operate 31 offices in 18 states, from Alaska to Florida and everywhere in between. These hard working advocates reach out to constituency groups from all walks of life, including state and local elected officials, community leaders, small business owners, students, veterans, health care professionals, entertainers, sports stars, and retirees. Repower America helps amplify their voices and the message of clean energy solutions to the climate crisis..

Efforts to secure passage of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation that supports Repower America’s objectives are conducted by the Alliance’s sister nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the Climate Protection Action Fund. Efforts led by the Action Fund’s Repower America campaign have resulted in hundreds of thousands of phone calls and letters, encouraging our leaders to support comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation.

The Climate Project

The Climate Project (TCP) was founded in 2006. TCP’s mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. TCP supports more than 3,000 diverse and dedicated volunteers worldwide that have been personally trained by former Vice President Al Gore to deliver an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. As of early 2010, TCP Presenters have delivered more than 70,000 presentations and have reached a combined global audience of more than 7.3 million people. Presentations are customized and frequently revised to include the latest climate science and can be requested free of charge by a group or organization or any size. Official TCP branches are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Mexico. TCP’s global headquarters is located in Nashville, Tennessee.

We Campaign

The WE Campaign is a sustained national effort to catalyze a broad community-level shift on the issue of climate change, educating Americans about the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis. Combining an unprecedented mass media campaign with an award-winning online organizing effort, the WE Campaign demonstrates the importance of people coming together to solve the climate crisis. Some of the most popular WE Campaign advertisements include the “Unlikely Alliances” campaign, which paired together such seemingly polar opposites as Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, and Reverend Pat Robertson and Reverend Al Sharpton.

Reality Coalition

The Reality Campaign is a coalition-led effort that was created to reveal the truth about coal: there is no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today. Since coal plants are singlehandedly responsible for a full third of America’s carbon dioxide pollution, coal is one of the chief causes of global warming today. The Reality Campaign challenges the coal industry to come clean, encourages Americans to question the claim of clean coal, and urges the United States to immediately invest in the technologies necessary to stop carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere.

Leadership

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Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO, is a veteran of numerous national issues, political and environmental campaigns and has spent 30 years working to mobilize Americans to take action. Maggie is the past National President of America Votes, a progressive coalition of over 40 organizations spearheading the largest voter mobilization and education effort in the nation. She served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental advocacy organization. Most recently, Maggie consulted with a number of organizations on their energy and climate campaigns including the Energy Future Coalition, Western Resource Advocates, and the Ocean Conservancy.

Affiliates

The Climate Protection Action Fund (Action Fund) is a non-profit, non-partisan affiliated organization that directly influences the passage of key local, state and federal climate and energy legislation and policies that are critical to solving our most urgent climate problems. By utilizing targeted legislative campaigns, issue advocacy, and grassroots organizing, the Action Fund represents the powerful and combined voices of the millions of Americans who stand behind our call for bold action on climate change.

See also

Al Gore

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  External links

  • Alliance for Climate Protection - Official site
  • Climate Protection Action Fund
  • Repower America
  • Repower America Wall - Add your voice
  • The Climate Project
  • We Campaign
  • Reality Campaign
  • Repower America on Twitter
  • Repower America on Youtube
  • Clean Energy Works
  • Our Choice
  • Al Gore