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Being a Volunteer Clinician Advocate

Join Dr. Elizabeth Del Buono in educating, advocating, and lobbying for effective climate policies. Learn about Carbon Fee & Dividend, transitioning to clean energy, and the health benefits. Empower yourself to make a difference!

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Being a Volunteer Clinician Advocate

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  1. Being a Volunteer Clinician Advocate Elizabeth (Lisa) Del Buono MD Citizens’ Climate Lobby Climate and Health Action Team Liaison to Rep. Bergman (MI-01)

  2. Concerned mother and citizen.

  3. Lobbying my Member Of Congress

  4. Commitment to my son

  5. CCL’s Mission Creating political will for effective climate policy by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power

  6. In order to create political will: • Educate oneself • Educate other volunteers • Educate the general public • Educate our legislators***

  7. What is our message? • “Climate change is real, • It is human caused and • It is harming people’s health today • Everyone is at risk”. . . • There are things we can do about it! • Thank you George Mason Climate Communications

  8. Transitioning to Clean Forms of Energy • Burning fossil fuels is bad for our health even if we don’t take climate change into account. • Transitioning to clean forms of energy will not only minimize the worst impacts of climate change, • but also result in immediate health benefits from cleaner air.

  9. Citizens’ Climate Lobby Carbon Fee & Dividend: Catalyst to Transition to the Low Carbon Economy Carbon Fee & Dividend: Catalyst to Transition to the Low Carbon Economy Carbon Fee & Dividend: Catalyst to Transition to the Low Carbon Economy

  10. “The single most powerful strategic instrument to inoculate human health against the risks of climate change would be for governments to introduce strong and sustained carbon pricing, in ways pledged to strengthen over time until the problem is brought under control.” (Lancet pg. 45). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ItisGwt7E0aWl5UVpYY3FHUzg/view

  11. Carbon Fee & Dividend = Best 1st step

  12. What additional messaging would be helpful to move our legislators? • Estimates of numbers of lives saved from air quality alone • Estimates of health care dollars saved from air quality alone • West 2013 (cost of clean energy $30/ton ; benefit $200/ton • MIT 2014 (health care savings of improved air quality alone )can offset cost of carbon pricing policies by up to 10 x’es) • Confrontingthe Climate Challenge: US Policy Options Hafstead & Goulder : (non-climate benefits of a carbon fee are about 3X the economic costs, and these benefits are mostly health related. )

  13. Educate our volunteers: organized according to voting districts Over 80,000 members And 460 chapters worldwide

  14. 72 Current Climate Solutions Caucus Members

  15. Rep. Jack Bergman (MI-01) joins the Climate Solutions Caucus

  16. Watch Video! https://youtu.be/Mb_GtE8aH-0

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