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Climate Advocate Training

�Monday, February 2, 2026�

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Our Agenda

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Overview of CCL

Our Mission, Values + CCL Way

Planning Your Lobby Meeting

Questions & Practice Time

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What we lobby for

Welcome and Introductions

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�Our solution to climate change?

Democracy.��Thank you for being on our team

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Our Learning Objectives

Articulate the benefits of carbon pricing and climate aligned finance.��

Learn how to be an effective citizen lobbyist.

Absorb our history, mission, culture, unique niche, one and only rule, values and our 5 levers of political will.

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“...I realized that ordinary people like me would have to organize, educate ourselves, give up our hopelessness, and gain the skills to be effective with our government.”�

Marshall Saunders, CCL Founder

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Our Mission�

To build political will for a livable world.

To empower people to have breakthroughs in personal and political power.��

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By meeting at regularly scheduled times and staying focused on the actions in the action sheets we prevail in making change.

A regular schedule becomes a habit, and by rowing together, we forge those habits into unstoppable forward momentum.

Because all politics are local, by focusing that momentum on our local ridings, we will prevail by winning one riding at a time.��Marshall Saunders believed in CCL Canada. He loved us. He was a dreammaster. Thank you for keeping his dream alive.

Our Proven Theory of Change

Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Mission Statement� Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s mission is to create the political will for climate solutions by enabling the breakthrough of personal and political power. In other words, they exist to empower everyday people to influence elected officials and build broad support for effective climate policy.

More fully:� • CCL works to build political will for a livable world by training and supporting volunteers in democratic engagement and advocacy.� • They focus on helping individuals exercise their personal and political power to advance climate solutions through respectful, non‑partisan action.

This mission drives their grassroots efforts to educate, organize, and lobby for national climate policies such as carbon pricing and other effective legislative solutions.

Agenda�1. Introductions

2. The Canadian Website�3. Volunteer handbook�4. Metrics Motivate

5. Action - write your MP and Canada’s Electoral officer

5. Q&A

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Our Values

Focus

Integrity

Diversity

Personal Power

Relationships

Nonpartisan

Optimism

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Our niche in 2026

We train and support volunteers, organized by ridings, to lobby their own parliamentarians and build political will locally for the Climate Aligned Finance Act and strengthening the Industrial Carbon Price.

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Carbon Pricing Around the World

I mage Source: World Bank Carbon Pricing Dashboard

Around the world, carbon pricing initiatives are driving emission reductions that cause climate change. Using data from 142 countries over two decades, researchers found that the average annual growth rate of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in countries with a carbon price to be 2 percentage points lower compared to countries without a carbon price (Carbon Pricing Efficacy: Cross-Country Evidence, 2020). Further, an additional euro per tonne of CO2 is associated with a reduction in the subsequent annual emissions growth rate of approximately 0.3 percentage points, all else equal.

Carbon pricing initiatives have been implemented or scheduled for implementation in 94 jurisdictions. This includes 52 national initiatives and 42 subnational initiatives. In 2023, these initiatives cover 11.66 GtCO2e, representing 23 % of global GHG emissions. However, only 5% of global emissions currently covered by a carbon price are within the price range needed by 2030. Prices must rise considerably to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of 1.5 degrees.

Important initiatives that will drive global carbon pricing:

The World Bank, and several country launched the Partnership for Market Implementation which will assist countries in the Global South in either improving their current carbon pricing or implementing carbon pricing at COP 26 in Glasgow .
Pakistan announced in March 2024 a carbon tax is under consideration in their country
On June 6, 2022, Canada and Chile, two countries that have implemented a carbon tax, issued an agreement to accelerate the adoption of carbon pricing around the world.
On May 16, 2022, Canada and the EU issued a joint declaration confirming the willingness of the EU and Canada to coordinate on respective approaches to carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments to prevent carbon leakage. They also confirmed the intention of the EU and Canada to work together to engage international partners to expand the global coverage of carbon pricing.
The European Union will enact border carbon adjustments by January 2023 to go into effect in 2026.

For the most up-to-date information, visit the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Dashboard.

More references:

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Explore Climate Policies EnROADS

En-ROADS is a free online simulator that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to test and explore cross-sector climate solutions.

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https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/pdf/reports/estimated-impacts-federal-system/federal-carbon-pollution-pricing-system_en.pdf

ESTIMATED RESULTS OF CANADA FEDERAL GHG POLLUTION PRICING ACT

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Navius Research 2024

In a nutshell: Navius Research Modeling published in March 2024 shows which climate policies enacted by Canada have the biggest impact. Of the 226 Mt of avoided emissions from current policies, analysis estimates that federal, provincial, and territorial carbon pricing systems play a leading role.

Navius Research modeling published in March 2024 found that by 2030 all existing climate policies in Canada combined prevent 226 Mt GHG pollution from entering the atmosphere which roughly total annual GHGs for Ontario and Quebec which are Canada’s largest and second largest populations by the numbers of people. Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to a maximum of 440 Mt in 2030—40 per cent below 2005 levels. We are currently 109 Mt short of that goal.

Canada has three direct (extrinsic) carbon pricing policies. Note that subsidies and regulations are also carbon taxes too because they cut carbon and the taxpayer has to foot the bill. Because all the climate policies interact with each other, there is inherent variability of the actual emissions reductions.

Navius’ recent independent assessment of the federal government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan Progress Report also looked at what would happen if Canada hadn’t implemented any emissions-reducing policies. In this “no climate policy” scenario, emissions would be higher today and rising steadily—reaching 765 megatonnes (Mt) in 2025 and 775 Mt in 2030, or 23 and 41 per cent higher than projected emissions under our legislated policy scenario, respectively.

In addition, every tonne of emissions reduced lowers long-term climate impacts and damages. The impacts of climate change are driving up the cost of living for Canadians and are a drag on the Canadian economy.

Here are the reductions in percentages and Mt as modeled by Navius for Canada’s three carbon pricing policies are:

The Fuel Charge: -8% to -14% = -18.08 to -31.64 Mt
Output-based Pricing System: -20% to -40% = -45.2 to -90.4 Mt
Oil and gas emissions cap: -7% to 34% = -15.82 to -76.84 Mt

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Background

The Fuel Charge: This is the Climate Income component of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act for consumer-based consumption. This is the policy we have been lobbying for since 2010.
Output-based Pricing System: This is the policy for heavy emitters in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (Large Emitter Trading Systems). It has many loopholes for the oil and gas industry, so the government had to enact a cap in that industry. CCL Canada, alongside many NGOs has commented extensively on the proposed legislation.
Oil and gas emissions cap: Canada is the first major oil producing country to put a cap on emissions in the oil and gas sector. It is a cap, trade and offsets system. CCL Canada, alongside many NGOs has been lobbying for this policy and also commented extensively on the proposed legislation too.

Resources

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act �https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/G-11.55/index.html
440 Megatonnes Insight | Which Canadian climate policies will have the biggest impact by 2030?�https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/industrial-carbon-pricing-systems-driver-emissions-reductions/
Interactive tool | 440 Megatonnes Emissions Pathway Tracker�https://dashboard.440megatonnes.ca/
2023 | Independent Assessment of Canada’s 2023 Emissions Reduction Plan Assessment Report�https://climateinstitute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ERP-assessment-2023-EN-FINAL.pdf
Reducing the costs of climate impacts in Canada�https://climateinstitute.ca/reports/damage-control/

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https://www.cleanprosperity.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Creating_Clean_Prosperity_Nov2020.pdf

https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/web/default/files/Documents/Reports/RP-2021-019-S/RP-2021-019-S_en.pdf

Canadians for Clean Prosperity Data �Impacts of tightening carbon pricing for heavy emitters = Big GHG cuts

BOTTOM LINE

Full carbon pricing and border carbon adjustments dramatically increase GHG cuts in Canada

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What Are Laser Talks?

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Practice makes perfect
Brief but powerful advocacy resource on a specific topic
Internalize rather than memorize
Helps supporters be prepared to respond in our own words

Go the the Laser Talks Page�

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CCL’s Five Levers of Political Will

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We focus on five core activities that our chapters leverage to bring citizens into the political process and to create constructive change possible.�

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Five Levers of Political Will

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Research Your Parliamentarian

Update or write an MP Bio. Get to know your MP and find something you can appreciate them for. Search their websites, their social media, and the Hansard.

�Be sure to sign-up to receive alerts at openparliament.ca��Importantly, include contact information and the name of the politicians’ staffers.

Share it with your team. �

Make a cop y of this document and fill everything in.��

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Securing the appointment

Phone and then email. If need be, leave a voicemail and follow it up with an email. �

If you are a constituent, identify yourself as one.��Be sure to mention you are with Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada.��Her e is the script ��

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Script for securing an appointment

Appreciation MP and staff’s service to your community and Canada.

Identify who you are, including that you are a member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada.

Identify yourself as a constituent if applicable.

State briefly what you like to discuss with the parliamentarian. The more focused you are the better.��

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Motivational Interviewing�

A person-centered interviewing style for eliciting behavior change by helping people to explore, find common ground and overcome obstacles and move forward together. ��BASIC STEPS

Get permissions to start a topic.
Ask how, who, what, when and where questions. Avoid why questions.
Get the other person talking. Your MP should be doing most of the talking.

Get permissions to start a topic.��

Motivational Interviewing

Description

“Motivational Interviewing” is a communication style that fosters collaboration and offers you as an advocate a package of skills to collaborate with anyone, especially “difficult people.” As a well-regarded professional approach Motivational Interviewing has thirty years of research across many fields and more than 1,000 studies demonstrating its effectiveness. This training will show you how to use Motivational Interviewing to more effectively connect with your members of Congress, local leaders, or even members of your own CCL group.

Select a tab below to read, watch or listen to this training.

In This Training

PACE: The spirit of Motivational Interviewing

The underlying theory of change beneath Motivational Interviewing is that people change when change serves their values. Motivational Interviewing offers tested methods that motivate collaborative action! Motivational Interviewing also offers several helpful mnemonics to help frame and remember some of the key components of its collective approach. This training will pass on three key concepts, beginning with PACE, which embodies the spirit of Motivational Interviewing and stands for:

Partnership of Equals
Acceptance
Compassion
Evocation

Acceptance

Absolute Worth
Accurate Empathy
Autonomy Support
Affirm Them

When attitudes interfere with the spirit of acceptance, they create what is called “emotional leakage,” where they partner can detect a lack of acceptance.

Compassion

Learn and show you care about their values.
Where to look? The news, online information, prior lobby notes, fellow community members
Think about shared values (i.e. for a conservative it might be individual liberty, energy freedom, economic security or job growth).

Evocation

Evoke your partner’s wisdom about change (Socratic approach.)
People are best persuaded by their own reasons.
Visit the “Hokey Pokey Clinic” (i.e. get your partner to turn themselves around).
See them as your partner.
Find reasons to like them.
Find common values.

The Four Processes

Engage: Establish a working relationship.

Focus: Clarify the agenda.

Evoke: Elicit their reasons for change.

Plan: Develop and commit to a plan of action.

Core Skills: OARS

Open-ended questions
Affirmations
Reflective Listening
Summaries

Open Dialogue with Open Questions

Closed: Will you support the Energy Innovation Act?

Open: How much do you know about our bill?

When forming questions, use the 6 W’s: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

Affirm them and spotlight their:

Abilities
Strengths
Efforts
Values
Intentions

Use recognition (noting) rather than praise (evaluating)

Reflectively Listen

Paraphrase back to them, showing nonjudgmental understanding of:

Their thoughts and feelings
Both pros and cons
Both stated and implied

Periodically summarize:

The problem as they see it
Options they like and why.
Agreements and follow-up plans.

OARS Practice Activity

Advocate: you are in a conversation with someone of your choosing (your partner) and trying to evoke a dialogue about climate solutions.

Partner: play the role your advocate describes for four minutes.

Observer: during the short activity count the number of times the advocate used any of the four O, A, R and S approaches. Share what you felt worked and offer one suggestion

Engage in Change Talk: DARN CAT

Evoking “change talk” (their reasons for change) follows the acronym DARN CAT

Change talk is talk that argues for change.
It predicts change.
Talk the talk before walking the walk.

Increasing Change Talk

Desire: their wants and desires for change.
Ability: their abilities, and means to change.
Reasons: their reasons to change.
Need: Their need to change.
Commitment: what they say they will do to change.
Activation: willingness to start the change.
Taking Steps: steps they have taken or are taking.

Planning Ahead Questions

Summarize and make your ask:

Would you be willing to ____?

Who can we follow up with?

What information would be helpful?

Could we offer you information on ____?

Set the stage for more collaboration!

Practice Activity

Advocate: Ask DARN CAT questions to increase change talk in your conversation about the Energy Innovation Act.

Partner: Play the role of someone who is ambivalent about the Energy Innovation Act for four minutes

Observer: actively listen to give a count of the number of times the advocate used an approach within DARN CAT and then share what you felt worked while offering one suggestion.

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Practicing Meeting with a Politician

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Our one and only rule

Respect, admiration, and gratitude for service�

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Respect, Admiration, Gratitude

In Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we like to say that we don’t have a lot of rules. In fact, we only have one rule. And, that is this: if you are to meet with a member of Congress or Parliament, we want you to find something you can respect, admire, and appreciate about them. We want you to convey that message of appreciation to your representative or his or her staff at the start of the meeting.

As soon as I say this, many folks tell me that finding something they can respect, admire, or appreciate about their member of Congress is simply impossible. Their member of Parliament is so terrible, useless, disagreeable, or down right evil that finding something to admire is simply unrealistic. They cannot do that!

I want to share a story with you about a group of volunteers in one of the states from the middle of the country. They had a face-to-face meeting scheduled with their member of Congress in DC. They arrived at the meeting and were told that last minute, the member of Congress couldn’t make it. The group went ahead with their message of appreciation which they shared with the staff member who was able to meet with them. They were sitting in one of those offices with the low dividing walls, scrunched up around a small table, crowded in tight. They asked the staffer to express their appreciation to the MOC for his work on preserving wetlands. Then, they hear a voice from the other side of the dividing walls, “I was proud of that work too!” and around the corner walks the member of Congress. And, the meeting goes on as originally planned – a face-to-face.

Trainer Homework 5

Think back on your CCL volunteering…. Can you remember a time when you expressed respect, admiration, and gratitude to a member of Congress/Parliament? Another volunteer? The newspaper editorial page editor? Do you have your own story you could share here?

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Let’s take a moment to focus on your members of Congress or Parliament.

What can you appreciate, respect, admire about your elected official?

Reflecting on exercise:

How hard was that?

Where did you have to go?

What did you have to decide?

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Roles in Your Meeting

Lobby Lead
Liaison
Appreciator
Time Monitor
Notetaker
Discussion
Asker
Deliverer
Follow-up
Photographer
Observer

These are suggestions, be flexible. Be ready to assume multiple roles. Encourage everyone to participate in the discussion .

Appréciateur
Moniteur de temps
Preneur de notes
Discussion
Demandeur
Livreur
Suivis
Photographe
Observateur

Ce sont des suggestions, soyez flexible

Soyez prêt à assumer plusieurs rôles

Tout le monde participe à la discussion

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Depending on the size of the lobby team, an individual may fill multiple roles. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussion, but give deference to the constituents wherever possible.

Special Note - these are all only suggestions.

Depending on the size of the lobby team, an individual may fill multiple roles. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussion, but give deference to the constituents wherever possible.

Appreciator – the lobby team member who shows appreciation for something the member of Congress has recently accomplished. If possible, this should be a constituent.
Time Monitor: (Keeps meeting on time. Monitors percent of time CCL and MOC talk with target of 50/50. Tallies number of questions our team asked (for the meeting minutes)
Notetaker – the lobby team member who takes notes. If possible, the note taker should be an experienced volunteer. This person should be able to follow the thread of the conversation, specifically capturing what’s said by the member of Congress or staffer. SAME DAY, types those notes into the online form.
Discussion – all lobby team members are encouraged to participate in the discussion, especially the constituents.
Asker – the lobby team member who presents CCL’s purpose and ask. If possible, this should be a constituent who has a strong grasp of our policy and its wider implications and ripple effects. The asker leaves the 1-page primary ask behind.
Deliverer – the team member who is responsible for bringing constituent letters, postcards, or endorsements letters from community leaders to the meeting.
Follow-up – this lobby team member sends follow-up meeting materials and a thank you card. If the person doing the follow-up is not the Liaison, he/she should coordinate on the follow-up items with the Liaison soon after the meeting.
A couple others can include the…
Photographer—the team member designated to take a photo (with permission) and share online after.
Observer--the team member designated to put aside any agenda for outcomes and just listen for underlying needs. If they hear something that is missing or sounds like a place to get more understanding, they ask about it, finding that the opportunity to clarify needs brings further understanding really helps the meeting.

Lobby Team Role Descriptions: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/246

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Basic Meeting Outline

Beginning

thanks, how much time, intros, appreciation, state our purpose and ask.

Middle

exchange thoughts, MI questions, listening for values, and moving MP forward.

End

clarify supporting ask(s), plans for follow-up, photo, and thank them for time.

Plan de réunion de base

Début: merci, combien de temps, intros, appréciation, énoncez votre objectif et demandez.

Milieu: discussion, échange de pensées, écoute des valeurs, faire avancer le député.

Fin: clarifiez les demandes de soutien, les plans de suivi, la photo et remerciez-les pour le temps.

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And now to the meeting. The meeting outline is pretty simple: there’s a beginning, a middle and an end.

At the beginning of the meeting you want to thank them for their time, finding out how much time they have, introduce yourselves, ask about them, show appreciation, and deliver constituent communications and state our purpose or ask- put a steadily rising fee on fossil fuels and return the revenues back to American households. We’ll discuss more details about the ask later today all together, but the one thing I’ll say is that when you state our purpose or primary ask - Swing for the fences. Don’t negotiate with yourself, negotiate with them. Connect using your words and aligning with what you

Middle:

The middle is the heart of the meeting. This includes the discussion, active listening, hearing their concerns, Listen for values so that we can establish common ground, overcoming obstacles, and executing your strategy to move them forward.
Motivational Interviewing, 5 W’s, Ask more questions to draw out more information and find out what they do and do not understand about our policy.
As you advance into addressing their concerns, make sure to practice asking for permission to proceed.
You want to have a supporting ask ready to go. Many members of Congress are not yet ready to introduce or support revenue-neutral carbon taxes. But, getting legislation passed is a complicated process in which lots of smaller things have to happen before we get a law.
Every member of Congress may be willing to do one of these smaller things. Supporting asks are very specific asks that start to check off those smaller things, and thus, still build towards our main ask.
When crafting a supporting ask, remember to make it as specific and actionable as possible. For example, don’t ask them to “support the climate”, ask them to “talk about the importance of acting on climate on the campaign trail.” See the difference? You want asks that you can check on.

End:

At the end of the meeting you want to do a final Make sure to include asking “What’s your preferred plan?” “what could we be doing more of in the district to make it easier for you to support our policy?, “with whom do they work with across the aisle?” questions. Finally confirm the follow-up items for the office.

Afterwards your team will debrief and share notes. I’ll also say that today, in any role that you play embody the identity of the character as best you can, know it will feel a bit goofy at first, and feel free to raise your hand for any questions/help.

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Identify the “Lobby Lead”
Settle on who you plan to lobby
“Lobby Lead” facilitates assignment of roles and your team’s meeting plan
Come up with 2 or 3 Motivational Interviewing questions
Make sure everyone has a role and participates
Role play
Debrief As A Group

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Role Play a Meeting

Simuler une réunion de lobbying

Préparation de la réunion
Déterminez qui vous prévoyez de faire du lobbying
Décidez des rôles et du plan de réunion de votre équipe
Tenez votre réunion
Assurez-vous que chacun a un rôle et participe
Débriefing en groupe

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Overview of the final 40 minutes (10 - 10 -10 - 10 each section) We’ll chime to signal moving to each of the next sections

10 minutes - Members walk in and sit down to meet with their matching tables. For ten minutes the CATW attendees ask any questions their table has about the lobbying process, CFD, or other topics that have come up during the training. Members should try and facilitate so that all table members have a question answered and no one dominates.

10 minutes - General Q&A shifts to 10 minutes of working together with the table to prepare them for their meeting - fielding questions about roles, meeting outline, supporting asks, getting to know the member they'll be representing, etc.

10 minutes - The meeting begins and lasts 10 minutes (standard approach similar to how we've run them in the past)

10 minutes - The meeting ends and the member facilitates processing the meeting, asking each table member to have one minutes to share their reflections for: "What was effective, what would you change, what is your biggest takeaway?"

Done with exercise - The member helps end the facilitation and direct the attention of their group back to the front of the room for a closing inspirational quote

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Debrief

What was effective?�

What would you change?� �
Biggest takeaway?� ��

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“I have worn these sandals for many a summer, even though I may feel that I am not worthy to stand in the shoes of so great a man. It was my fate to be the antagonist of a man for whom, even then, I had the highest respect”.

“J'ai porté ces sandales pendant de nombreux étés, même si je pense que je ne suis pas digne de me mettre à la place d'un si grand homme. C'était mon destin d'être l'antagoniste d'un homme pour qui, même alors, j'avais le plus grand respect”.

-Jan Smuts

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“J'ai porté ces sandales pendant de nombreux étés, même si je pense que je ne suis pas digne de me mettre à la place d'un si grand homme. C'était mon destin d'être l'antagoniste d'un homme pour qui, même alors, j'avais le plus grand respect”. -Jan Smuts

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Jan Smuts’ history is well documented but let me share something that is less known about the man himself.

It’s a common misconception that Jan Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi’s relationship was one of animosity. It is a little known fact that both men actually respected each other, remaining life long admirers of one another.

Gandhi tried, at all times, to look for the positive in Smuts and said of him that he had a “high place among the politicians of the British Empire and even of the world”.

Rather famously, when Gandhi finished his work in South Africa and left with his wife in July 1914, just before he departed, he sent General Smuts a gift of a pair of sandals he made himself.

Gandhi had learnt to make sandals at Tolstoy Farm, a cooperative colony he set up near Johannesburg, from which he ran his campaign of satyagraha (non-violence).

Jan Smuts wore the sandals every summer at his farm, next to the town of Irene, and then returned the sandals to Gandhi on Gandhi’s seventieth birthday, remarking:

“I have worn these sandals for many a summer, even though I may feel that I am not worthy to stand in the shoes of so great a man”.

Smuts went on to say:

“It was my fate to be the antagonist of a man for whom, even then, I had the highest respect”.

A replica of the sandals can be found at the Constitution Hill Museum in Johannesburg. Appropriately and oddly enough a statue of Jan Smuts stands just opposite a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Parliament Square in London, in recognition of two world visionaries and their impact in the development of the modern political sphere.

Pause - then express thank you together to end

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Additional Photos

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CCL’s Monthly Actions�

Every month read the Canadian action sheets and laser talks and with your group determine what is best for your group.

Let’s row together.

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Réunions mensuelles de CCL

Chaque deuxième samedi du mois à 13h ET, des centaines de groupes de CCL se réunissent pour faire quatre choses ensemble:

Apprendre
Celebrer
Pratiquer
Agir

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Let the group know when and where they meet. Some groups choose to host two meetings - one a social meeting with monthly conference call viewing and the other as a business meeting. Some groups host those meetings back to back on the same day. Others host those meetings on different days. Please talk to the group leader in advance to nail this down and include the information in the CAT.

Social Science tells us again and again that one of the most important traits

Volunteers Around the World gather locally each month for our group meetings to do four things:

Learn - we hear from a guest speaker on a different aspect of global warming science, politics, or policy (Guest Speakers)

Celebrate - our successes, including growth, legislative progress, and published media from across the world (Accomplishments

Practice - We build on our knowledge and our ability to communicate it persuasively by practicing laser talks (Laser Talks)

Act - Each month CCL provides coordinated actions for each chapter that build political will for a livable world (Action Sheets)

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ICONS

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First Quarter Report

We want a liveable world, so we want to see bold action to fight climate change. Since 2010, we have trained and empowered our volunteers to engage their elected leaders in conversation and advocate for the legislation and policies we need to make that liveable world a reality. CCL Canada members have reported a total 1046 actions in the first three months of this year! Keep reading to learn more about what we’ve accomplished since the beginning of January: CCL Canada Q1 Report (2024)

Progress: 1st Two Months of 2024

Here is just a sample of what Citizens’ Climate Lobby has accomplished in the first two months of 2024 and what is coming up.

January 5, 2024:Demystifying Carbon Pricing with Laser Talks Booklet�Are you inclined to favour carbon pricing? Dive into our Laser Talks booklet, a powerful resource released in January, offering evidence-based communication to counter climate deflectors, deniers, delayers and doomers. Learn to respond effectively to questions like “Does Canada’s carbon price affect the price of food?” Spoiler alert: (Ah, no). Download your own copy of the booklet here.

January 10, 2024: Advocacy in Action – Emission Caps in Oil and Gas Sector�Kudos to the over two dozen members who sent comment letters on Canada’s legislation for emission caps in the oil and gas sector. Canada is leading the way as the first major oil-producing country with such caps in the oil and gas sector. Check out our contributions here.

January 29, 2024: Standing Our Ground III and Strategic Planning Unveiled�We’re thrilled to share insights into our 2024-2025 strategic planning through an insightful video, slides and our vision of the road ahead.

February 6 to March 10, 2024: Growing Together Through Onboarding�We are in the process of revamping our onboarding process. We are highly organized and use a proven theory of change. We are seeking carbon pricing champions who wish to build political will locally for carbon pricing and especially form a relationship with their Member of Parliament around redirecting financial flows away from fossil fuels as fast and fairly as possible. Here are the video and slides.

February 9, 2024: Love for the Planet – Open Letter on Budget2024�Before Valentine’s Day, nearly 50 leaders signed an Open Letter to Canada’s finance minister, expressing love for the planet and urging action in Budget2024. Read it here.

February 14: Valentine’s Victory – CCL Canada’s Lobbying Triumph!�Celebrate with us as CCL Canada’s lobbying efforts result in the rebranding of Climate Action Incentive Payment (CAIP) to Canada Carbon Rebate and making that rebate more obvious in our bank statements. It is never too late to share your love for the Canada Carbon Rebate by liking and sharing our Instagram, Twitter and Facebook posts.

February 26, 2024: Ontario’s Energy Transformation – A Milestone Media Scrum�For the second time in six months, we hosted a breakfast at Queen’s Park and lobbied our MPPs for energy and climate policies that lay the foundation for a sustainable future. This time we united with nine other other organizations and co-hosted a breakfast at Queen’s Park where 58 advocates from across Ontario lobbied 14 MPPs and 4 staffers representing all political parties. Then, we were invited by the NDP to do our very first media scrum in a parliament building. Relive our historic event at Queen’s Park here and our first media scrum here.

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LASER TALK: THE MANY WAYS TO PRICE CARBON

Our governments have 6 basic options to confront climate change. They are listed from least transparent to most transparent:

1. The status quo – Our whole society finances fossil fuels – most expensive option by far.

2. Regulation – boots on the ground, eyes on emissions. This approach requires the government to hire regulators to keep tabs on everyone’s emissions and is dependent on the budget for enforcement. This approach is only as effective as the number of sources it can monitor, but hiring regulators is expensive, so it will only catch the largest carbon emitting companies, not your car or your neighbour’s lawnmower or your friend’s boat.

3. Cap and Trade – creates an artificial market. It involves putting a cap on emissions, but lets companies trade the emissions they produce. It still requires hiring regulators to tell us who is emitting how much (and all the problems that come with regulations) and creates a market where a select few people make money and the rest of us are left with a fluctuating fuel market

4. Subsidies – government picks winners and losers. It can be really hard to predict the future and what will be the best option down the line. We know how this has failed us in the past when the government decided to subsidize fossil fuels.

5. Carbon Tax – a sin tax that puts pressure on consumers. The positive is that carbon taxes are highly effective at reducing carbon emissions because they hold companies monetarily accountable for the negative consequences of the emissions they use, and , if the tax is put at the source (such as the coal mine or the oil refinery) they don’t require many regulators. The downside is that, with just a tax on carbon emissions, companies will push the extra cost off to consumers and make all products more expensive. When things get more expensive, people won’t be able to afford as much so it will slow down our GDP growth and economy.

6. Carbon Fee and Dividend – This is CCL’s preferred solution. It is simple and effective. Carbon fee and dividend includes a fee on carbon emissions at the source, then the revenues from that fee go back to households – It’s this dividend that grows the economy and protects the most vulnerable.

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CCCCL Canada Spring 2026 Outreach

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Canada is studying �Border Carbon Adjustments

Climate Income / Carbon Fee and Dividend�Federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act 2019�“Back Stop” Policy and it applies to all Provinces by QC and BC

Carbon Fee and Dividend is a carbon price that is revenue-neutral (meaning that the revenues do not go to government coffers). It is also known as Climate Income. It functions as follows:

A fee is placed on carbon-based fuels at the source (well, mine, or port of entry).
This fee increases steadily each year so that clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade.
All the money collected is returned to Canadians on an equitable basis.
Under this plan, most Canadian households would break even or receive more in their dividend than they would pay for the increased cost of energy, thereby protecting the poor and middle class.[1]
A predictably increasing carbon price will send a clear market signal, which will unleash entrepreneurs and investors in the new clean-energy economy.
Border carbon adjustments are eventually enacted in partnership with climate-friendly nations to protect vulnerable domestic industries while incentivizing other countries to price carbon.

[1] “Fiscal and Distributional Analysis of the Federal Carbon Pricing System.” 25 Apr. 2019, https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/web/default/files/Documents/Reports/2019/Federal%20Carbon/Federal_carbon_pricing_EN.pdf. Accessed 20 Jul. 2019.

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The Federal Backstop Program for Carbon Pricing in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act”

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/G-11.55/

April 2024 - March 2025�80 CAD / tCO2e�Gasoline 17c/L

Loi sur la Tarification de la Pollution Causée par les Gaz à Effet de Serre (Canada)

Aperçu de la politique de “filet” du Canada

Production et distribution de carburant

Payer les frais de carburant au GC
Tarif 1er avril 2020 au 31 mars 2021 (=30$ /t CO2e)

Essence : 6,63 ¢/L
Mazout léger 8,05¢/L
Gaz naturel: 5,87¢/m3
Propane : 4,64¢/L

Quelques exclusions

Livraison de carburant
Consommation de carburant

Les consommateurs ne paient pas la redevance directement au gouvernement fédéral. Le prix du carburant payé par les consommateurs peut inclure les coûts de la redevance sur le carburant.
Les installations enregistrées dans le système de tarification fondé sur le rendement (OBPS en anglais) ne paieraient généralement pas la redevance sur les carburants qu’elles achètent. Au lieu de cela, elles seraient soumises au prix du carbone sur la partie des émissions au-dessus de la limite d’émissions de l’installation.

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CCL Is For Not Against

Place a fee on fossil fuels at the source (mine, well or port). �Start at $15/tonne CO2e, increase $10/tonne annually

Return net revenues to households equally, protecting lower/middle class.

A border adjustment on goods imported from or exported to countries without an �equivalent price on carbon.

LASER TALK: Carbon Fee & Dividend

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Discussion

We are citizen lobbyists not experts. How do they differ and what does that mean for your tactics when lobbying?��

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Canada’s Carbon Pricing Timeline

October 2016: Pan-Canadian Framework

October 23, 2018: Federal policy announced

March 2019: Dividends returned in our income tax �ON, MB, SK and AB

April 2019: Carbon Fees begin

October 2019: National election, ⅔ voted for parties with carbon pricing.

March 2021: Survives Supreme Court Challenge

October 2015: Trudeau & Liberals form gov’t

December 11, 2020: Government plans for rebate “cheques”, study harmonization in the federal and BCAs.

June 2021: Climate Accountability Laws

Sept 2021: Survives another �Federal election

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Réalité : Le Canada n’atteint pas la cible et se retire du protocole de Kyoto.
Octobre 2015 : Un gouvernement libéral majoritaire est formé.
Octobre 2016 : Cadre pancanadien sur la croissance propre et les changements climatiques
23 octobre 2018 : La loi sur la tarification de la pollution causée par les gaz à effet de serre est annoncée
Mars 2019 : Les Canadiens reçoivent les incitatifs à agir pour le climat.
1er avril 2019 : La tarification carbone commence dans les provinces et territoires touchées par la loi sur la tarification de la pollution.
Octobre 2019 : Élection nationale, ⅔ de l’électorat vote pour des partis avec des plateformes concernant la tarification du carbone. Un gouvernement libéral minoritaire est formé.
22-25 septembre 2020: Vote de confiance dans la chambre des communes. Audience de la Cour suprême du Canada à propos de la constitutionnalité de la loi sur la tarification de la pollution causée par les gaz à effet de serre. Tudeau émet un avertissement bien senti dans un discours à l’Assemblée générale des Nations-Unies. Organisation des Vendredis pour l’avenir durant la pandémie.
La suite ? Protéger et améliorer la loi sur la tarification de la pollution causée par les gaz à effet de serre.

Canada now has a national carbon fee and dividend policy!

Announced in 2018 and launched in 2019, Canada now prices carbon and allocates revenue to households!

Cathy Orlando was one of those volunteers who joined up a decade ago. Cathy serves as our International Outreach Manager. Cathy says, “Those of us in provinces with the carbon price are getting our rebates. We wait on pins and needles to find out if the Supreme Court will allow the national carbon pricing policy under the constitution. And, we focus on improving Canada's national carbon pricing policy.”��healthy_environment_healthy_economy_plan.pdf (canada.ca)

�Then we got we got what we asked for!

Continue to put a price on pollution through to 2030, rising at $15 per tonne after 2022, while returning the proceeds back to households such that the majority receive more money back than they pay in provinces where the federal system applies.

Move from carbon pollution pricing rebate payments being distributed on an annual basis to quarterly, starting as early as 2022.

Explore the potential of border carbon adjustments, and work with like-minded economies—including the E.U. and Canada’s North American partners—to consider how this approach could fit into Canada’s broader strategy to meet climate targets while ensuring a fair environment for businesses.

Review the standards used to assess provincial systems, also known as the federal “benchmark criteria”, and engage with provinces and territories as well as with Indigenous Peoples on these proposals over the coming months.

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Canada is studying Border Carbon Adjustments. Currently, heavy emitters pay a much reduced carbon price in the Output Based Pricing System (OBPS).

What would happen if heavy industry paid the full price and the Output Based Pricing System was replaced with Border Carbon Adjustments?

Climate Income & Border Carbon Adjustments

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Pembina Simulator (2018 data)

Removing fossil fuel subsidies

https://canada.citizensclimatelobby.org/laser-talk-pembina-simulator-find-pricing-pollution-core-component-of-cost-effective-climate-plan/

In the spring of 2018, the Pembina Institute launched an online climate policy simulator that is freely available for all to use.

The simulator allows the user to assess the effectiveness of individual policies on greenhouse gas emissions from Canada to the mid-century. Assuming all provinces sign on to the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change and successfully implement climate action plans aligned with the PCF, Canada is likely to meet the 2030 Paris Agreement objective of a 30 % cut in emissions by 2030. Deep decarbonization by mid-century would likely require additional policies. If you remove carbon pricing from the model, the core driver of emissions reduction is gone. The only other option is a complex series of specific policies within each economic sector, which is much more expensive for the taxpayer. In fact, other policies activated in the simulator to 100% still do not arrive at the same result for emissions reduction as is the case with carbon pricing in effect.

The take-home message in working with the Pembina policy simulator is that, in agreement with the consensus of climate change economists, carbon pricing is an essential core component of a cost-effective climate plan.

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Thank You!

Merci !

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www.citizensclimatelobby.org

Brett-

Help us connect with your group! If you have not met your group leader, you will today at this afternoon’s state and regional group meetings - look at page x in your program for the details.

Elli Sparks: elli@citizensclimate.org

Brett Cease email: brett@citizensclimate.org

Our slides today: cclusa.org/workshopslides

At Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we are committed to continuous improvement and your feedback helps us achieve making this workshop better and better. If you all could three to five minutes right now, before leaving to fill out the final handout sheet that you have in your stack of papers today, the color sheet, and provide us your experience, our goal is getting 100% of your feedback and we deeply deeply appreciate the time you’ve taken with us this morning.

Elli and I will stick around here for the 10-15 minutes to field any questions we can help you with, feel free to seek us out at the front!

You are officially ready for your experience on the Hill tomorrow and together we will build the political will for a livable world!

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Navius Research 2024

In a nutshell: Navius Research Modeling published in March 2024 shows which climate policies enacted by Canada have the biggest impact. Of the 226 Mt of avoided emissions from current policies, analysis estimates that federal, provincial, and territorial carbon pricing systems play a leading role.

Navius Research modeling published in March 2024 found that by 2030 all existing climate policies in Canada combined prevent 226 Mt GHG pollution from entering the atmosphere which roughly total annual GHGs for Ontario and Quebec which are Canada’s largest and second largest populations by the numbers of people. Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to a maximum of 440 Mt in 2030—40 per cent below 2005 levels. We are currently 109 Mt short of that goal.

Canada has three direct (extrinsic) carbon pricing policies. Note that subsidies and regulations are also carbon taxes too because they cut carbon and the taxpayer has to foot the bill. Because all the climate policies interact with each other, there is inherent variability of the actual emissions reductions.

Navius’ recent independent assessment of the federal government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan Progress Report also looked at what would happen if Canada hadn’t implemented any emissions-reducing policies. In this “no climate policy” scenario, emissions would be higher today and rising steadily—reaching 765 megatonnes (Mt) in 2025 and 775 Mt in 2030, or 23 and 41 per cent higher than projected emissions under our legislated policy scenario, respectively.

In addition, every tonne of emissions reduced lowers long-term climate impacts and damages. The impacts of climate change are driving up the cost of living for Canadians and are a drag on the Canadian economy.

Here are the reductions in percentages and Mt as modeled by Navius for Canada’s three carbon pricing policies are:

The Fuel Charge: -8% to -14% = -18.08 to -31.64 Mt
Output-based Pricing System: -20% to -40% = -45.2 to -90.4 Mt
Oil and gas emissions cap: -7% to 34% = -15.82 to -76.84 Mt

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Background

The Fuel Charge: This is the Climate Income component of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act for consumer-based consumption. This is the policy we have been lobbying for since 2010.
Output-based Pricing System: This is the policy for heavy emitters in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (Large Emitter Trading Systems). It has many loopholes for the oil and gas industry, so the government had to enact a cap in that industry. CCL Canada, alongside many NGOs has commented extensively on the proposed legislation.
Oil and gas emissions cap: Canada is the first major oil producing country to put a cap on emissions in the oil and gas sector. It is a cap, trade and offsets system. CCL Canada, alongside many NGOs has been lobbying for this policy and also commented extensively on the proposed legislation too.

Resources

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act �https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/G-11.55/index.html
440 Megatonnes Insight | Which Canadian climate policies will have the biggest impact by 2030?�https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/industrial-carbon-pricing-systems-driver-emissions-reductions/
Interactive tool | 440 Megatonnes Emissions Pathway Tracker�https://dashboard.440megatonnes.ca/
2023 | Independent Assessment of Canada’s 2023 Emissions Reduction Plan Assessment Report�https://climateinstitute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ERP-assessment-2023-EN-FINAL.pdf
Reducing the costs of climate impacts in Canada�https://climateinstitute.ca/reports/damage-control/

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Carbon pricing vote in Election 2019 �= 34.2 t CO2e reduced (Canada)

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EnROADS�A cutting-edge simulation model to test climate solutions and generate climate scenarios for the future.

Global impact of

Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Subsidizing Clean Energy
Maximizing Tree Growth
Carbon Pricing

On

Global Primary Sources of Energy
Air pollution
Global Temperatures

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Powering America

Forward to

Clean Energy

Puts Money in Your Pocket

The money collected from the carbon fee is given as a dividend, “climate income” payment to every person to spend with no restrictions. Most low and middle income people will come out financially ahead or break even.

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Parliamentary Budget Office Data

https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/web/default/files/Documents/Reports/RP-1920-024-S/RP-1920-024-S_en.pdf

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Price GHG pollution and reduce income inequality at the same time

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01228-x

https://www.sei.org/publications/the-carbon-inequality-era/

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/extreme-carbon-inequality-why-the-paris-climate-deal-must-put-the-poorest-lowes-582545

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Calculate You Rebate

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/cai-payment/how-much.html

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Powering America

Forward to

Clean Energy

Net Zero by 2050

Climate Income is the single most powerful tool we have to get us to net zero by 2050.