The Center for Climate Strategies is still working individual states trying to get hired, with the most recent obvious target being Alaska. Much in this Fairbanks Daily News-Miner dispatch supports what I’ve reported about CCS so far, with regard to their claims and tactics:
A group of stakeholders approved 49 recommendations for reducing
emissions, many of which will save money, he said. Overall, the state
is expected to create jobs and save more than $5 billion while reducing
emissions to 2000 levels by 2020, and then cutting them in half over
the next 20 years….CCS has done at least some climate-related work in 25 states, from
Florida to Washington, and recently helped Alaska create an inventory
of greenhouse gas emissions in the state.(CCS consultant Ken) Colburn (watch the first 5 minutes of this video — “the mother of all concerns”) made his pitch to members of Gov. Sarah Palin?s sub-cabinet
on climate change during a public meeting Tuesday in Fairbanks….Under Colburn?s proposal, CCS would work with the sub-cabinet over the
next year to develop an action plan. The process would start with
cataloguing various policy options and identifying things the state is
already doing. Palin?s sub-cabinet would then build a team of
stakeholders ? broken into sector-based work groups ? that would meet
publicly a half-dozen times over the course of the year….Creating the action plan can cost $500,000, Colburn said, but states
generally pay only about 10 percent of the cost. CCS covers the rest
with funding from various foundations.
And what do you think those foundations, run by the likes of the Rockefellers, Theresa Heinz-Kerry, and Ted Turner, expect for their money? Just imagine.
