Climate Prosperity
Climate Prosperity generates
substantial economic and employment growth and sustainable business and
community development by demonstrating that innovation, efficiency, and conservation
in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources is the best way to
increase jobs, incomes, productivity, and competitiveness. In addition, Climate Prosperity is the most
cost-effective method of promoting renewable energy and clean technologies,
protecting the environment, and preventing harmful impacts from global warming.
“A penny saved is a penny
earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Less is the new more.” –
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“No problem can be solved
from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein
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Climate
Prosperity: a framework for
sustainable
economic development strategies
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PART ONE:
UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE PROSPERITY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
I. Sustainability 3.0
Global Urban Development formulated Climate Prosperity as a
framework for Sustainable Economic Development Strategies to assist
communities, cities, counties, regions, states, provinces, and nations (places)
to accelerate progress toward a sustainable economy.
In the same way that Sustainable Development combined two
seemingly disparate ideas into a powerful new concept, Climate Prosperity
connects the environment/climate crisis with the opportunity for large-scale
economic prosperity—asserting that the imperative to address the
environment/climate crisis offers the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st
Century.
From the Climate Prosperity perspective, there are three
basic forms of Sustainability:
§
Sustainability 1.0—Environmental Protection.
§
Sustainability 2.0—Climate Action.
§
Sustainability 3.0—Sustainable Economic Development.
(See Appendix B for a brief discussion of the three basic
forms of sustainability.)
Global Urban Development
works with places to accomplish Sustainability 3.0—Sustainable Economic
Development—by joining with them to design and implement Sustainable Economic
Development Strategies.
Sustainable Economic Development Strategies generate
substantial economic and employment growth and sustainable business and
community development by demonstrating that innovation, efficiency, and
conservation in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources are the
best ways to increase jobs, incomes, productivity, and competitiveness.
In addition, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies are
a highly cost-effective method of promoting renewable energy and clean
technologies, protecting the environment, and preventing harmful impacts from
global warming.
By generating Sustainable Economic Development Strategies
based on technological innovation and resource efficiency, places can grow
their economies, improve their standards of living, and expand businesses,
jobs, and incomes.
II. Creating a
Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
The
transition to a carbon-constrained world will drive profound changes in every
business, non-governmental organization, and household as well as every city,
county, region, state, and nation. The
question is whether the transition will be dominated by a potentially chaotic
response to emergencies or a more orderly process of careful design,
implementation, and evaluation.
The
premise behind the creation of a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy is
that a more orderly response to this inevitable transformation can be
proactively organized and managed, and that this will lead to significant and
widespread economic benefits.
Each place is unique.
A Sustainable Economic Development Strategy cannot be mechanically imposed. Rather it must grow out of the special
conditions and the dynamic trajectory of each place. Sustainable Economic Development Strategies
are guided by a local/regional Leadership Structure and a Consultation Team
collaborating in partnership through a series of five distinct phases of work.
Leadership Structure:
Typically, the leadership structure for a Sustainable Economic
Development Strategy includes three elements:
1.
A Leadership Group, which is usually a pre-existing
local/regional organization that has committed to lead the effort.
2.
A Decision-Making Council, made up of the key leaders from a
variety of different organizations, who are guiding the creation and
implementation of the Sustainable Economic Development Strategy.
3.
A broader Stakeholder Advisory Group,
composed of the full range of public, private, and civic stakeholders
supporting the Sustainable Economic Development Strategy, who are advising the
process.
Consultation Team:
Global Urban Development organizes Sustainable Economic Development
Consultation Teams to assist in the Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
formation and implementation process.
Sustainable Economic Development Consultation Teams are
headed by one or more generalists with extensive professional experience in
Sustainable Economic Development.
The generalists are responsible for maintaining the client
relationships and coordinating the Consultation Teams. Specialists are added to the Teams, as
needed, to address the specific dimensions of the Sustainable Economic
Development Strategy that are custom-designed for each particular place and
situation.
Phases of Work: There are five phases
of work involved in the development and implementation of a Sustainable
Economic Development Strategy:
1.
An Initial Consultation to establish the goals and objectives
and the work plan for the process.
2.
A Strategic Assessment and Opportunity Analysis of the
area-wide economy, to identify its current direction, its strengths and
weaknesses, and the opportunities and challenges for Sustainable Economic
Development.
3.
Design of a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy that
builds on the momentum that already exists, establishes a specific focus, and
weaves together a set of Initiatives and Actions to create a clear, coherent,
easily understood, dynamic strategy, with a strong business model.
4.
Formulation of an Implementation Plan—including a system for
monitoring progress—that addresses who is responsible for each Initiative and
Action, the timeline and milestones, the costs, the sources of potential
revenues, and the processes for mid-course corrections.
5.
Initiation and, subsequently, full implementation of the
Sustainable Economic Development Strategy and Implementation Plan.
PART TWO: THE CLIMATE
PROSPERITY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
III. The 3 Core
Objectives of Climate Prosperity
Global Urban Development has evolved the Climate Prosperity
Strategic Framework to provide a comprehensive framework to assist in the development
of Sustainable Economic Development Strategies.
According to the Climate Prosperity Strategic Framework, Sustainable
Economic Development Strategies are focused on three core objectives:
§ Green Savings—cutting costs
through energy conservation, overall resource efficiency, and waste reduction;
saving money; and improving the financial bottom line for businesses, public
agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and households.
§ Green Opportunities—growing the Cleantech businesses, jobs, and incomes that offer the
products and services to enhance resource efficiency, productivity, and
competitiveness.
§ Green Talent—providing
education and training to develop the entrepreneurial, managerial, and
employment skills that will be increasingly demanded as the global marketplace
moves toward sustainability, while also building a constituency to support the
emergence of a sustainable economy.
The Green Savings objective addresses the demand side of the
market for green products and services, while the Green Opportunities objective
deals with the supply side of the green market.
The Green Talent objective focuses on the human resources side of the
green market, both in relation to demand and in relation to supply.
IV. Key Dimensions of a Sustainable Economic
Development Strategy
Within the context
of its three core objectives, the Climate Prosperity Strategic Framework
utilizes a set of key dimensions to:
§
Assess the sustainability assets, liabilities, opportunities,
and challenges of places.
§
Design Sustainable Economic Development Strategies, composed
of Initiatives and Actions, that build on the assets, address the liabilities,
take advantage of the opportunities, respond to the challenges, monitor ongoing
performance, and measure results/outcomes.
The key dimensions of the Climate Prosperity Strategic
Framework have been generated by systematically applying innovative
sustainability perspectives to widely accepted
economic development best practices. (See Appendix C for a discussion of
Sustainable Economic Development.)
Green Savings (The Demand Side of Green Markets)
·
Green Businesses,
Public Agencies, and Organizations: the environmental and financial performance
of existing business firms (whether or not they produce an environmental product
or service), government agencies, and non-governmental organizations, and the
potentialities for implementing significant increases in energy conservation,
resource efficiency, waste reduction, and financial return.
·
Green Building Retrofits: the financial/energy/resource efficiency of
existing buildings and building user behavior, and the possibilities for
large-scale building retrofits.
·
Sustainable Real
Estate Development: the construction—both infill and
Greenfield—of mixed-use, walkable, energy efficient,
transit-oriented real estate developments featuring Cleantech
and green businesses and the opportunities for new sustainable real estate
development projects.
·
Green Physical
Infrastructure: the financial/energy/resource/information
efficiency of water, energy, transportation, waste management, and broadband
infrastructure as well as the potentialities for significant increases in
overall efficiency and financial performance of the physical infrastructure.
·
Large-Scale
Behavior Change: the level of adoption of Green Savings by
households and the opportunities for undertaking large-scale citizen
mobilizations to encourage households to become more resource efficient and
environmentally conscious in their consumer practices.
Green Opportunities (The Supply Side of Green Markets)
·
Cleantech Cluster: the status and the potentiality for growth of
the businesses included in the Cleantech cluster that
provide a range of environmental products, services, and processes intended to
offer superior performance at lower costs, while reducing negative ecological
impacts, and improving the wise and responsible use of natural resources. (See Appendix D for a discussion of the Cleantech Cluster and the global venture investment Cleantech businesses are receiving.)
·
Cleantech Technology Transfer: the current situation and the opportunities
for strengthening of university and institutional research and development
(R&D) leading to technology transfer and intellectual property (IP)
commercialization that can be utilized by Cleantech
companies to produce new Cleantech products and
services.
·
Green and Cleantech Business Support: the economic and
social infrastructure that is in place and the opportunities for improvement in
relation to business incubation, acceleration, retention, and
attraction—creating an optimal place for Cleantech
and green businesses to locate, expand, and grow over the long term.
·
Triple Bottom Line
Investment: existing and potential investment
vehicles—both debt and equity—pursuing financial, social, and environmental
returns through investment in Cleantech and green
businesses and sustainable real estate developments.
· Green Branding and Marketing: existing and potential branding and marketing of a place as an emerging sustainable economy, seeking to promote the growth of Cleantech and green businesses and sustainable real estate developments, as well as to attract these types of businesses and developments.
Green Talent (The Human Resources Side of Green Markets)
·
Green Workforce: established systems
and new opportunities for green employment development—including education,
training, placement with career pathways, and other forms of assistance—to
attract and retain a high quality green workforce that provides the employees,
entrepreneurs, and management needed by Cleantech and
green businesses, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.
·
Sustainable
Community Development: existence of Cleantech
and green businesses and sustainable real estate developments led and participated
in by minorities, women, and underserved communities and opportunities to
connect these businesses and developments with the appropriate financial and
business acceleration services; as well as the empowerment of low- and
moderate-income employees and residents to save money through resource
efficiency.
·
Green Community
Engagement: existing and potential programs for the
engagement of the talent and creativity of the residents of a place in
understanding sustainability, in participating in the process of building a
sustainable/green economy, and in making green purchasing decisions.
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LEAVING
COAL IN THE GROUND: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
AND ENDING A GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS BY 2030
Dr. Vivian Lin, Professor of Public
Health, La Trobe University, and Vice President for Scientific Affairs,
International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE); and Dr. Marc A.
Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Global Urban Development, and Chair, Climate
Prosperity Alliance
June 2010
Invitation
to participate in a Workshop at the International Union for Health Promotion
and Education (IUHPE) 2010 World Conference on Health Promotion, International Conference
Center, Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, July 12th.
Time: 1815 to 1930 hours. Room 15.
Title of the Workshop
– “Leaving Coal in the Ground: Building a
Sustainable Economy and Ending a Global Health Crisis by 2030.”
The main purpose of this IUHPE workshop
will be to engage in an open conversation about how to begin organizing a
worldwide movement of health professionals and educators, public policymakers,
private sector executives, NGO leaders, grassroots activists, and global
citizens, for the express purpose of legally phasing out the mining,
transporting, and burning of coal worldwide by 2030. This campaign will make
extensive use of communications strategies and social media in order to reach
and involve millions of people throughout the world. At the workshop, we will
strongly encourage audience participation in a facilitated discussion about how
to build an effective global movement during the next few years.
Participants attending the workshop
will be aware of the global health dangers of coal, both from the extensive
damage caused by mining and transporting coal, and from the hazardous pollution
generated by burning coal, including the harmful effects of carbon dioxide
emissions in accelerating catastrophic climate change. Workshop participants will be familiar with
the considerable evidence of coal’s excessively negative impacts on human,
animal, and plant life, as well as on ecosystems vital for basic survival.
At the workshop we will discuss
future scenarios for global investment in energy conservation and overall
resource efficiency combined with innovation in renewable energy production,
storage, and distribution, and in other clean and green technologies, enabling
billions of people worldwide to thrive and prosper by “leaving coal in the
ground” and building a sustainable economy.
Phasing out coal by 2030 through sustainable economic development will
increase employment, raise incomes, and enhance general living standards, while
at the same time vastly improving the natural environment, global health, and
international peace.
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NEW PLAN: A WIN-WIN FOR ICELAND, THE
UK, AND THE NETHERLANDS
Dr. Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical
Markets Media, and Vice Chair, Climate Prosperity Alliance
March 2010
Icelanders, on March 6, 2010,
rejected by 90% the referendum on paying $5.3 billion (45% of national output
in 2009) of odious debt incurred by their privatized bank Icesave.
This opens the way for a plan proposed
by Dutch businessman/philanthropist Gijs Graafland's Planck Foundation. This ingenious, well-researched Energy for
Debt plan invites private and public investors to develop
Dr. Graafland,
an IT entrepreneur, energy and financial expert, points out that Iceland,
situated between two of Earth's tectonic plates, has unlimited geothermal
energy from the planet's core near the surface – rather than miles deeper as
elsewhere. "
The most innovative factor in the
Planck Foundation geothermal Energy for Debt plan is that it would repay
investors in assured supplies of electricity rather than in volatile or
inflating currencies. This new KWH
(kilowatt hour) currency will be sounder than any government issued fiat
currency. Indeed, we now witness central
banks bailing out their bloated, corrupt financial sectors, with zero interest
funds, purchasing toxic assets and, lately, by "quantitative easing"
– a polite term for printing money.
Icelanders rejected the unfairness
of bailing out private banks and foolish British and Dutch savers tempted by
unrealistically high interest rates. The
punitive repayment deal offered by their governments would have forced
As I researched this innovative plan
and corresponded with Gijs Graafland
and John Laporte, I was amazed at how many high-level
government and business officials are interested. They include British members of Parliament
from Conservative, Labor and Liberal-Democrat parties and the House of Lords;
central bankers from several EU and other major countries; business leaders in
the USA and China; philanthropists, investors and members of the Club of Rome
who fostered the DESERTEC-DII solar energy consortium.
Now that the defeated referendum has
given a clear signal, it seems likely that
Thus, EU governments can provide the
guarantees that would enable pension funds to invest, since such long-term
investments are ideal for their beneficiaries.
Pension funds of the Institutional Investors Group on
Climate Change, representing some $17 trillion of assets, has committed
to increasing their "green" investments and supports a strong
post-Kyoto climate agreement. The
Climate Bonds Initiative has designed many kinds of bonds for renewable energy
and water projects.
Major financial media are also aware
of the Energy for Debt plan but are waiting for the various players to coalesce
and get the go-ahead from
There are very few "plays"
left within the old money circuits as the search for new profits and
"asset classes" extends to buying up oil and commodities and the
Earth's renewable resources: forests and land in
The influential
© IPS March 9, 2010
used with permission of InterPress Service
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GLOBAL COAL TRANSITION AND CLEANTECH
INVESTMENT INITIATIVE
James Nixon, President, Global Urban
Development, Jigar Shah, CEO, Carbon War Room,
and Marc Weiss, Chair,
Climate Prosperity Alliance
January 2010
FOUR KEY ELEMENTS OF THE GLOBAL
STRATEGY:
1)
Phase out burning coal worldwide by 2030
2)
Establish a fixed global price on all coal exports
3)
Raise funds to finance the transition to non-coal energy sources
4) Support private investment in a sustainable economic transition, particularly in developing countries
The post-Copenhagen outlook for an
international treaty under the auspices of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) appears to be quite bleak. This is mainly because the original 1992
Rio/1997 Kyoto approach is no longer working.
National governments negotiating a new treaty are in conflict over both
of the two key elements of Kyoto: 1) mandatory greenhouse gas emission
reduction targets by country, to be implemented primarily through cap-and-trade
regulatory systems; and 2) direct transfer of resources from developed country
governments to developing country governments.
A viable alternative or supplement
is to focus on a more unconventional strategy from the perspective of global
diplomacy, but one that can be more effective both politically in terms of
gaining support, and more importantly, economically and environmentally, in
terms of actually preserving a global climate that supports healthy and
prosperous lives for people and communities everywhere, as well as for other
animals, plants, and living organisms throughout the world.
The two key elements of this new
approach are: 1) completely and permanently
phasing out all burning of coal worldwide by 2030, with an internationally
agreed upon 20-year schedule for progressively phasing out all coal burning; 2)
promoting $100 billion annually to be invested in energy and resource
efficiency, renewable energy production, and clean/green technology
infrastructure and companies in developing countries. These investments mainly
will be made by the global private sector, with the support of financing,
regulations, and other policies and programs from national governments and
international agencies.
The best diplomatic framework for
the coal phase-out and global investment strategy probably consists of
bilateral negotiations between the US and China. Once the US and China reach agreement, then
negotiations can be extended to major coal-exporting countries, and later to
the UNFCCC.
The progressive coal phase-out will
be financially enhanced by establishing a global fixed price on all coal
exports by every nation. No country will
have a competitive advantage over any other country in terms of price
competition. The global fixed coal
market export price will deliberately be set at a level that includes
measurable transition costs, higher than current market prices. Coal companies will sell their product internationally,
collect the revenues and profits, and then pay portion of the premium as a coal
transition tax to their national government.
National governments will disburse some portion of these funds to the UN
and the World Bank.
The global fixed market price on
coal exports will rise over time, and the national government tax will be
scaled up accordingly. National
governments can use such funds to subsidize an economic transition for the coal
industry (including research and development on alternative economic and
environmental uses for coal), for the electric utilities industry, for the
shipping industry, and for coal workers and communities, as well as utilizing
funds to invest in promoting and developing renewable energy, clean
technologies, and sustainable infrastructure.
The UN and the World Bank will use
their portion of the coal export funds to subsidize the economic transition for
developing countries whose economies depend on coal imports, enabling them to
generate alternative power sources and increase their overall resource
efficiency, technological innovation, and sustainable economic competitiveness.
The reason that the global fixed
price on all coal exports will serve as an effective policy tool is it will
provide a market-based economic incentive for countries that have large coal
reserves to discourage domestic coal consumption and encourage coal exports in
order to raise domestic incomes, increase domestic jobs, expand public revenues
to be reinvested in stimulating resource efficiency, and improve their nation’s
global balance of payments and trade.
Similarly, countries that do not possess large coal reserves but who
depend on importing coal for cheap energy will now have a strong incentive to
minimize coal imports and develop alternative power sources. This one vital market incentive will strongly
support a more rapid and relatively smoother transition to the post-coal era.
In a sense the phasing out of
coal-burning, as a communications campaign, can be compared to the campaigns in
many countries to discourage smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products for
public health reasons (“thank you for not burning coal”). For example, the State of Maryland utilized
the funds received from the settlement of the tobacco company lawsuit to enable
the state’s tobacco farmers to voluntarily either sell their farms at a
favorable market price, or to accept payments in exchange for switching to the
cultivation of alternative crops or converting their farmland to alternative
land uses. From the perspective of
global diplomacy, phasing out the burning of coal can also be compared with
treaties and other international agreements to reduce nuclear weapons.
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Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Global Urban
Development, and Chair, Climate Prosperity Alliance
December 2009
Global
Urban Development and the Climate Prosperity Alliance propose to help organize
and serve as among the hosts of "salons" that will meet for several
hours on a weekday evening every two or three months in cities around the
world. These gatherings will be open to people from the communications
media industries and performing arts-related professions who want to
participate. The purpose will be to engage in wide-ranging conversation about
how to more effectively create and promote a new paradigm of advanced
technological environmental sustainability, something that has never existed
since the modern industrial revolution began more than three centuries ago.
Through
the media and the arts, we aim to identify new ways to create and present
images of a future society of "Climate Prosperity" that is in
relative harmony and balance with the cycles of nature based on conserving and
reusing all natural resources (not only fossil fuels, but water, land,
materials, etc.), rather than overusing and wasting them. In other words, under
Climate Prosperity, people, places, and organizations worldwide actually get
richer (or stay rich) by becoming greener, and earn more money by using fewer
resources and reusing more. Everyone will be better off economically and
environmentally, with greater prosperity, improved health, enhanced quality of
life, and much more stable peace (because people won't be killing each other
over increasingly scarce resources).
There
are three ways that media/arts professionals can enlighten and entertain the
general public about this new paradigm of sustainable industrial development,
and "Be the Change" as Mahatma Gandhi famously said:
1)
Create futuristic stories and scenarios, especially with visual elements, which
portray people throughout the developed and developing world, living in
advanced technological sustainability. Regardless of what drama or
comedy, science fiction, documentary non-fiction, or video game content is in
the foreground, the background will be digital and other images of modern
sustainability. For example, there will still be Times Square in the
future, but it will be based on LED lighting powered by renewable energy, and
there will still be people driving cars to work and play, but they will be
driving plug-in electric vehicles powered by renewable energy. All businesses
and jobs will be "green" in the sense that their revenues are shaped
by technological innovation and resource efficiency based on Green Savings,
Green Opportunities, and Green Talent.
2)
Present interesting and compelling images of current sustainability efforts,
such as the amazing story chronicled in Ray Anderson's recently published book,
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist,
about how a corporate CEO of a petroleum-based industrial carpeting
manufacturer and installer that was a wasteful polluter, decided to become a
sustainable company and succeeded over 15 years in becoming far more
environmentally friendly both in terms of the production processes and the
products, and along the way substantially expanding market share, revenues, and
profits. Ray Anderson's Interface Corporation definitely got richer by becoming
greener and earned more money by using fewer resources and reusing more.
3) Identify, document, and share experiences
about the most resource efficient, conserving, and recycling ways to produce telecommunications
media and performing arts events and products. Media and arts
professionals and businesses should also be getting richer by becoming greener,
and demonstrating that innovation, efficiency, and conservation in the use and
reuse of all natural and human resources is the best way to increase jobs,
incomes, productivity, and competitiveness. In the Climate
Prosperity/Sustainable Development/Green Economy paradigm, both the production
process and the media/arts/educational content are at peace and in harmony with
Mother Nature. Sustainability will be the guiding principle in theory and
practice to the mutual betterment of everyone and everywhere.
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For Immediate Release:
NEW GLOBAL CLIMATE PROSPERITY SCOREBOARD FINDS OVER $1 TRILLION INVESTED IN GREEN SINCE 2007
Washington,
DC – December 4, 2009
– Ethical Markets
Media (USA and Brazil)
and the Climate Prosperity Alliance
today launched their Global Climate Prosperity
Scoreboard® which tracks private investment in companies growing the
green economy globally. This new, never before reported number, showing
$1,248,740,645,993.00 (over $1.248 trillion) in total investment since 2007, indicates how investors and entrepreneurs are leading
governments in promoting sustainable growth. The scoreboard totals
investments in solar, wind, geothermal, ocean/hydro, energy efficiency and
storage, and agriculture. We purposefully omitted nuclear, "clean
coal," carbon capture and sequestration, and biofuels.
We indicate which investments have been publically announced and committed by
major companies for 2010 and beyond.
Dr.
Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development and Chair of the
Climate Prosperity Alliance, said, "This $1.248 trillion of investments
are not only from North America and Europe, but also from China, India, Brazil
and other developing countries. They indicate that the private sector
currently is ahead of governments in understanding that during the 21st
century, people, places, and organizations can only get richer by becoming
greener and only earn more money by using fewer resources and reusing more.
Private capital investment is now leading globally in promoting technological
innovation and resource efficiency that will accelerate environmentally and
socially sustainable industrial growth and economic development throughout the
world."
Dr.
Hazel Henderson, futurist, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green
Economy (Chelsea Green, 2006) and president of Ethical Markets Media,
serves as vice-chair of the Climate Prosperity Alliance together with
vice-chairs C.S. Kiang (China), Rodrigo Loures
(Brazil), Lawrence Bloom (UK) and James Nixon (USA). Dr. Henderson said,
"Ethical Markets Media's mission is reforming markets and growing the
green economy globally. Our Global Climate Prosperity Scoreboard® will be
updated regularly to show progress toward the ecologically sustainable
economies that are vital to our common future. Societies are
transitioning from the 300-year old, polluting, fossil-fueled Industrial Era to
the advanced technologies of the information-rich Solar Age."
The
Climate Prosperity Alliance, a volunteer, global network of financiers,
businesses, economic development authorities, scientists and NGOs is based on
earth systems science, showing the widespread evidence of destruction caused by
the now-obsolete technologies of the combustion-based Industrial Revolution and
its extraction and exploitation of the Earth's capital: oil, coal, gas, minerals, forests, water, land and
biodiversity. Human societies are now gradually re-industrializing our
economies using the Earth's income
– the renewable energies of sun, wind, ocean/hydro,
geothermal and non-agricultural biomass – based on human capital: new knowledge of planetary processes and ecosystems,
designing our economies with Nature.
The
Climate Prosperity Alliance uses the Climate Solutions 2 computer model of
Australia's Climate Risk Pty., showing how $1 trillion invested every year for
the next 10 years can assure the global transition to sustainable prosperity
and job growth. This $10 trillion is less than the bailouts of failed
banks in the USA and Europe and less than 10% of the world's pension and
institutional funds of $120 trillion. Institutional fund managers can shift
10% of their assets away from hedge funds, risky derivatives and commodity
speculation to real investments in a greener global economy, thereby assuring
their beneficiaries a healthier future.
"While
we encourage progress toward directly investing in growing the green economy,
we urge government officials meeting in Copenhagen December 7-14, 2009, to
follow the lead of these private investors that have already committed $1.248
trillion. We applaud our pension fund colleagues of the UN Principles of
Responsible Investing who have joined in pledges to allocate more of their
members' $19 trillion of assets into similar green companies. Now,
governments must go beyond arguing over targets, caps and carbon-trading – and
follow the lead of China and the USA in their comprehensive plan for
cooperation on clean energy and climate change. Such a general agreement
in Copenhagen can promote and underwrite more direct investments and growth of
the green economy," said Dr. Henderson.
The
new Global Climate Prosperity Scoreboard® is researched and compiled by the
Ethical Markets Media expert team: Timothy Nash, M.Sc., principal, Strategic
Sustainable Investments, Toronto; Rachel Tubman, M.Sc., senior
researcher/futurist; assisted by The Cleantech Group
and members of the Ethical Markets Sustainability Research Group. As
these investments increase, the scoreboard will track totals, providing
investors and governments with tangible evidence of the growing green economy.
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GLOBAL CLIMATE PROSPERITY AGREEMENT:
“THE ONE TRILLION DOLLAR DEAL”
Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Division of Sustainable Development,
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO,
Global Urban Development, and Chair, Climate Prosperity Alliance
March 2009
The
Global Climate Prosperity Agreement -- “The One Trillion Dollar Deal” -- can
become the worldwide game-changer that will demonstrate the positive path
forward for human civilization in the 21st century, namely the
peaceful transition from the current globally unsustainable economy to an
advanced technology-driven and environmentally sustainable industrialized
society. Key private sector executives are organizing this completely
voluntary, market-oriented, public-private investment and development strategy
whereby corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies, pension
funds, equity investment funds, and others will commit to invest one trillion
dollars in developing countries over the next decade to build a new and modern
infrastructure based entirely on renewable energy and clean technologies, including
plug-in electric vehicles and “smart” and “super” electric grids. These
investments and related projects will be supplemented and enhanced by
additional funds, tax incentives, and regulatory policy support from
governments, along with funds that will come from international donor agencies,
official development assistance, and private philanthropy. The United Nations
and World Bank, including various UN agencies and regional development banks,
can play a key role in enabling these investments to succeed.
The
Global Climate Prosperity Agreement will help achieve the Millennium
Development Goals in developing countries, by raising living standards and
promoting sustainable economic and employment growth and sustainable business
and community development through innovation, efficiency, and conservation in
the use and reuse of all natural and human resources. It will benefit developing and developed
nations alike, generating a dynamic upward cycle of sustainable economic
prosperity, job creation, and income growth worldwide, while simultaneously
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, through increased production and
distribution of renewable energy and clean technologies that optimize overall
resource efficiency. Under Climate
Prosperity, economic livelihoods and well-being, quality of life, public health
and safety, and peace and security, will improve for billions of people in
every place throughout the world. It
will revive the global economy from its current market recession, stimulate
massive long-term employment and income growth, and protect the economy and
environment from resource supply shortages, catastrophic climate change, and
other major threats and challenges.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BY
POTENTIAL INVESTORS
ABOUT THE GLOBAL
CLIMATE PROSPERITY AGREEMENT
Q:
Is this philanthropy?
A: No. All of the one trillion
dollars worth of investments will be based on typical market rates of return
for the type of risk category according to your financial institution’s
underwriting criteria and fiduciary responsibility.
Q: What type of investments will we
be making?
A: Investments will be in
infrastructure based on renewable energy and clean technologies, with physical
asset value and dedicated, predictable revenue streams with which to repay both
debt and equity investments, but primarily debt instruments such as normal
capital market bond financing to build and operate basic infrastructure.
Investments also will be in renewable energy and clean technology businesses
located and operating in developing countries, including venture capital,
shares of stock, and other equity investments, in addition to debt financing.
Q: Will we be contributing money
into some type of managed fund?
A: No. Your institution will
directly make all of the investments. You will control the decision-making
process as to whether or not to make any particular investment, choosing from a
broad and diverse range of types of investments by country and region, by
technology, by governance, by rate of return, by risk, by growth potential, and
many other key decision factors.
Q: Will there be any kind of credit
enhancement, loan guarantees, or public subsidies?
A: We expect that for each
investment opportunity there will be public intervention by national
governments, international agencies such as the UN and World Bank, and
international donors ranging from official development assistance from
developed country governments to private foundations, to ensure the safety and
soundness of these investments both as to definite returns to the investors and
as to the effectiveness of the infrastructure and technologies in promoting
Climate Prosperity.
Q: If I make a commitment, is it
legally binding?
A: No. Your commitment is a statement of intent. You
are stating that your financial institution, in its strategic portfolio
investment planning for the decade 2010 to 2020, intends to make a certain
dollar amount of investments in renewable energy and clean technologies in
developing countries, provided that each and every investment meets all of your
institution’s underwriting criteria as to safety and soundness. You will not be
required to make any investments that do not fully satisfy all such criteria,
meaning that by the end of 2020, you might not fulfill your original commitment
in terms of the total dollar amounts invested, or alternatively, you might also
exceed your original commitment and invest more money than you initially
intended.
Q: How do you define developing
countries?
A:
We use the United Nations definition of developing countries, all of
which will be eligible for investments under the Global Climate Prosperity
Agreement. In addition, $200 billion of
the total one trillion dollar deal will be targeted to the Least Developed
Countries, as defined by the UN.
Q: How do you define renewable
energy?
A: The Global Climate Prosperity
Agreement follows the definition of renewable energy according to the official
Statutes of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) signed by 136
countries worldwide. Eligible investments include solar, wind, hydropower,
geothermal, tidal, wave, biomass, biofuels, and
energy efficiency.
Q: How are
clean technology investments defined?
A: The specifics will change over
time as new technologies emerge and can be scaled up, but the bottom line is
that clean technologies are defined as being environmentally sustainable in
terms of the overall ecological footprint based on how the resource inputs are
obtained, the production process in the use of the materials, the deployment
and environmental impacts of the technologies, and the ability to completely
recycle all of the component resources in harmony with the cycles of nature
such that essentially there is no waste.
Q: Why do you take this approach?
A: We agree with the business
sustainability movement’s argument that Resource Efficiency and Energy
Productivity, as defined for example by McKinsey and other management
consultants, is the only way for companies or communities to survive and thrive.
As we say, in the 21st century people, places, and organizations can
only get richer by becoming greener, and can only earn more money by using
fewer resources and reusing more.
Q: What is the main purpose of the
Global Climate Prosperity Agreement?
A: The overall purpose of Climate
Prosperity is to enable people, places, and organizations worldwide to achieve
and maintain a high standard of living based on innovation, efficiency, and
conservation in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources, thereby
moving the global economy by 2020 from its current system of resource-wasting
industrialism to a new economically and environmentally sustainable
resource-saving industrialism. Climate Prosperity is about the wise and
efficient use and reuse of all resources in relative harmony and balance with
nature. This includes, of course, reducing the use of fossil fuels such as oil,
gas, and coal, and drastically reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such as
carbon dioxide and methane, as well as removing carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere through natural and sustainable processes. However, it also involves
water, land, air, trees, plants, animals, and every other resource, especially
people.
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CLIMATE
PROSPERITY: WHY MARX WAS WRONG AND MOTHER NATURE IS RIGHT
Marc A. Weiss
During the 1840s, two young German scholars,
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, applied George Hegel’s dialectical philosophy
of history to economics and politics. They envisioned modern history in three
distinct phases:
Phase 1
Economy: agricultural feudalism and urban
mercantilism
Governance: monarchy or dictatorship
Phase 2
Economy: industrial capitalism
Governance: monarchy or dictatorship,
with limited experiments in democracy
Phase 3 Economy: industrial socialism/communism
Governance: proletarian dictatorship
While Marx and Engels later strongly supported
European Social Democratic political parties and movements, they never modified
their basic historical framework. They could not envision in 1848 how
democratic capitalism would provide unprecedented human freedom, civil rights,
and economic opportunities for millions of people worldwide by 2009. Once
people taste the fruits of liberty, they never want to return to living with
tyranny.
This one simple
explanation, more than any other factor, accounts for the dramatic decline of
communist and socialist ideologies during the past three decades, as I
discovered while working in Prague after the Velvet Revolution.
It later turned out, as we now know, that
there is a big problem with contemporary capitalism, namely the massive and
inefficient utilization of a wide variety of natural resources both for
industrial production and for human consumption.
Resource depletion and environmental
challenges were generally ignored until the second half of the twentieth
century. Only a few earlier commentators such as the poet William Blake raised
concerns about industrialization (Blake called nineteenth-century British
textile factories “dark Satanic mills”). It took until
the 1960s for rapidly accelerating physical damage, diminishing supplies, and
rising costs to finally place the issue of sustainability on the global policy
agenda. Climate change is really just the tip of the iceberg in that all
natural resources—land, water, and materials—are becoming increasingly scarce,
expensive, and dangerous to continue using so excessively and wastefully.
Fortunately it is not too late to create
an even higher standard of living for every person and community throughout the
world, by shifting from resource-wasting capitalism to resource-saving
capitalism. In the twenty-first century, the only way to get richer is by
becoming greener, and the only way to earn more money is by using fewer
resources and reusing more. In other words, the global economy can
significantly enhance prosperity and quality of life for people everywhere by
treating Mother Nature as our good friend and one of our most precious assets,
rather than as our enemy to be exploited and conquered.
The main challenge is for each of us to
acknowledge the ancient wisdom of two essential values: 1) new is not always
better than old; and 2) more is not always better than less.
Global Urban Development is coordinating
Climate Prosperity, whose core belief is that “innovation, efficiency, and
conservation in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources is the
best way to increase jobs, incomes, productivity, and competitiveness.” The
project’s main purpose is to creatively use business sustainability concepts
taken from Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins, Peter Senge, Karl-Henrik Robert, William McDonough, Daniel Esty, and the McKinsey Global Institute, as applied by
companies such as GE, IBM,
This model has three key elements:
1)
Green
Savings—reducing waste and cutting costs;
2)
Green
Opportunities—expanding jobs and businesses by raising revenues and increasing
market share;
3) Green Talent—investing in
fundamental assets including technology, infrastructure, and most importantly, modern
entrepreneurial and workforce skills, because people are now the world’s most
vital economic resource.
Through state, regional, and local
Climate Prosperity Strategies, places like Silicon Valley and the State of
Delaware are now using the three-part business sustainability model to promote
economic development that saves money, creates jobs, raises incomes, and keeps
us all safe from environmental harm. This summer the International Economic
Development Council will publish the Climate Prosperity Handbook, describing
the various strategies and explaining how to develop and implement such
approaches most effectively.
Currently there is talk of a Global
Climate Prosperity Agreement, with developed countries committing to invest one
trillion dollars in developing countries over the next decade to build
renewable energy and clean technologies, enabling living standards to rise and
poverty to be eliminated through sustainable innovation and resource
efficiency. These investments will generate substantial economic and employment
growth for every nation throughout the world.
The bottom line is that Marx and Engels
were wrong, because the real three-phase historical dialectic is as follows:
Phase 1
Pre-industrial
sustainability
Phase 2
Resource-wasting
industrialization
Phase 3 Innovative, efficient, sustainable,
inclusive, democratic, resource-saving industrialism.
Now that we can envision a healthier,
more peaceful, and prosperous future in harmony with Mother Nature, let’s all
thank her for showing us the one and only path that can definitely ensure our
grandchildren will thrive.
(Dr. Marc A. Weiss is
Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development and Chair of the Climate
Prosperity Alliance. He served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration,
and was a Professor of Urban Development and Planning at Columbia University.)
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REVIVING THE ECONOMY THROUGH CLIMATE
PROSPERITY
Climate
protection and economic growth are not enemies.
Core strategies to create a vibrant economy – innovation, efficiency,
strategic investment, and finding better ways to use and reuse resources – are
exactly the same steps we need to cope with global climate change now. These actions will increase jobs, incomes,
productivity, and competitiveness, and
they’re green.
There
are commentators who advocate postponing investments in renewable energy and
clean technologies, suggesting this will somehow delay economic recovery. They’re dead wrong. In the 21st century, the only way
for people and places to get richer is by thinking and acting for sustainability, specifically aiming
to become “greener.”
How
do we get this message out to the cities and regions of
Climate
Prosperity was launched in 2007. It is coordinated by Global Urban Development
and Collaborative Economics, with financial support from the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund and the Environmental Defense Fund. We’ve been joined by a highly diverse
public-private partnership of pro-business groups such as the International
Economic Development Council, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Urban
Land Institute, Council on Competitiveness, International Downtown Association,
and American Council on Renewable Energy.
We
hope to get millions of people involved in learning the new 21st century
economic paradigm. Technology
companies, including Google and Applied Materials, helped launch the Silicon
Valley Climate Prosperity Strategy in partnership with elected officials such
as San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed.
Among
other cities, counties, and metropolitan regions working with us on Climate
Prosperity Strategies are King County/Seattle,
The
economics driving a shift to new approaches seem compelling. Oil prices have hit huge peaks in the past
year as global demand grows exponentially (hindered only temporarily by the
current recession). The
Fossil
fuels are not the only commodities becoming increasingly expensive. Steel prices, for example, have skyrocketed
by nearly 170 percent since 2002. As
economic development and population growth accelerate in
The
idea of moving from “resource-wasting capitalism” to “resource-saving
capitalism” is not new. Business
development experts such as Paul Hawken, Amory and
Hunter Lovins, William McDonough, and Peter Senge have long advocated this approach. The business sustainability model works in
three mutually reinforcing ways: 1)
Green Savings — cutting resource costs; 2) Green Opportunities — enabling
businesses and jobs to grow and thrive; 3) Green Talent — developing globally
competitive entrepreneurial and workforce skills, and attracting and retaining
talented people.
Numerous
corporations, including DuPont, General Electric, IBM, and Nike, are practicing
innovation, efficiency, and conservation to enhance their productivity and
competitiveness. DuPont responded to
“peak oil” by switching from petrochemicals to life science bio-products,
substantially improving their profitability through saving $3 billion and
expanding revenues by producing goods that are better for the environment.
Fortunately,
we have some success stories in which these business sustainability principles
have guided economic development in place-based, area-wide economies. According to the California Green Innovation
Index, Californians saved $56 billion on electricity expenses over the past
three decades through improved energy efficiency, primarily from state and
local government policies requiring higher standards for buildings and
electrical appliances and providing financial incentives for utility companies,
businesses, and households to conserve energy and use renewable sources. Private consumers reinvested much of this
savings in the state's economy, directly contributing to higher economic growth
and greater prosperity by generating 1.5 million full-time jobs with total
annual income of $45 million.
Similarly,
people in metropolitan
So we know how to build more prosperous,
green, climate-protecting regions. Now
is the time to get serious and spread the message to communities, cities,
regions, and states.
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Climate
Prosperity: Democratic Capitalism with a Twist
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CLIMATE
PROSPERITY ALLIANCE EXECUTIVE BOARD
CHAIR: Marc Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Global Urban
Development, Washington, DC
VICE CHAIR: Lawrence Bloom, Chairman, United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Green Economy Initiative on Green Cities,
Buildings, and Transport, London, UK
VICE CHAIR: Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets
Media (USA and Brazil), St. Augustine, FL
VICE
CHAIR: C.
S. Kiang, Chairman, Sustainable
Development Technology Foundation, Beijing, China
VICE CHAIR: Rodrigo Loures,
President, Federation of Industries for the State of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
VICE CHAIR: James Nixon, President, Global Urban Development, Oakland, CA
Grace Akumu, Executive Director, Climate Network Africa, Nairobi,
Kenya
Rosa Alegria, Co-Chair, The Millennium Project, Brazil Node, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elizabeth Autumn, Executive Producer and Anchor, United Nations MediaGlobal News Service,
New York, NY
Emilia
Queiroga Barros, President, Brazil 2020 Agenda, Lauro de Freitas, Brazil
Antonella Battaglini,
Process Leader, SuperSmartGrid, Renewables
Grid Initiative,
European Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany
Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO,
Washington, DC
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood
Technology, Chicago, IL
Iman Bibars,
Vice President, Ashoka Global, and Regional Director,
Ashoka Arab World, Cairo, Egypt
Tess Cacciatore, Chairman and Executive
Director, World Trust Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Carter, City Council Member, Charlotte, NC, and Member, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Steering Committee, National League of Cities, Washington, DC
John Cleveland, Vice President, Innovation Network for Communities,
Tamworth, NH
Susan Davis, President, Capital Missions Company, East Troy, WI
Ladislau Dowbor,
Professor of Economics and Regional Development, Catholic University of Sao
Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marlene
Fernandes, International Advisor, Brazilian Institute
for Municipal Administration (IBAM),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jeffrey
Finkle, President and CEO, International Economic
Development Council, Washington, DC
Morel Fourman, CEO, Gaiasoft, London, UK
Robert
Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light
Fund, Washington, DC
John Fullerton, Founder, Level 3 Capital Advisors,
New York, NY
Nicky
Gavron, Assembly Member, Greater London Authority,
London, UK
John Geesman, Chairman, American
Council on Renewable Energy, Washington, DC
Abdulrahman Al Ghabban,
Project
Development Specialist, Qassim Development Corporation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Theodore Gordon, Senior
Fellow and Co-Founder, The Millennium Project,
Washington, DC
Alex
Grayson, Principal, Omni Group, London, UK
Elliott Hoffman, Chairman and CEO, New Voice of
Business, San Francisco, CA
Ashok Khosla, President,
Development Alternatives, New Delhi, India
Sean Kidney, Europe Manager, Climate Risk, London, UK
Kelly Krpata, Director, Applied
Materials Climate Prosperity Initiative,
Joint Venture Silicon
Valley Network, San Jose, CA
Jaime Lerner, Vice Chair, Global Urban Development, Curitiba,
Brazil
Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange,
Hong Kong, China
L. Hunter Lovins, President and
Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Longmont, CO
Tony Manwaring, CEO, Tomorrow’s Company, London, UK
David
Martin, Executive Chairman, M∙CAM, Charlottesville, VA
Peter Matthies,
Founder, Conscious Business Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Dan Montgomery,
Principal, Resilient Strategies, Superior, CO
Mary Jane Ortega, Secretary General, CITYNET,
Yokohama, Japan
Julia
Parzen, Sustainability Manager, Urban Sustainability
Associates, Chicago, IL
Christina Carvalho Pinto, President,
Full Jazz Communications Group, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alexander Plessl, Independent
Journalist, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bill Radulovich, Founder, Climate
Prosperity Citizens, Pleasanton, CA
Susan Rochford, Vice
President for Energy Efficiency, Sustainability, and
Public Policy, Legrand NA,
West
Hartford, CT
Nancy
Sedmak-Weiss, General Counsel, Climate Prosperity
Strategies LLC, Rehoboth, DE
Jigar
Shah, CEO, Carbon War Room, Washington, DC
D.
Wayne Silby, Founding Chair, Calvert Funds, Bethesda,
MD
Phillip
Singerman, Senior Vice President, B & D
Consulting,
Radames Soto, President and
Founder, Kinina Ventures, Miami, FL
Steve
Viederman, Author,
and former President, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation,
Ramiro
Wahrhaftig, Executive Director, Open University for
the Environment, Curitiba, Brazil
Nicholas
You, Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategic Planning, Office of the Executive
Director,
United Nations Human Settlements Program
(UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya
Climate
Prosperity Alliance Advisory Board
Poonam Ahluwalia, President, Youth Entrepreneurship and
Sustainability (YES), Cambridge, MA
Jobeda Ali, Managing Director, Fair Knowledge, London, UK
Prince
Cemil Giray Alyanak, Founder, Mondofragilis Group,
Annecy, France
Mart Bailey, Chairman, US-China Green Tech Summit, San
Francisco, CA
Andrea Bassi,
Deputy Director for Project Development and Modeling, Millennium Institute,
Arlington, VA
Clement Bezold,
Chairman and Founder, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA
Allison Brooks, Managing Director, Reconnecting
America, Oakland, CA
Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute,
Washington, DC
Ann
Chan, California Program Director, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington, DC
Michael
Chang, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Sustainable Systems,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Helene Connor, Director, HELIO, Paris, France
Thais Corral, Director, Network for Human Development
(REDEH), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Richard
Eidlin, Principal, Eidlin
Consulting, Denver, CO
Reese Fayde, Principal, Reese Fayde
& Associates, New York, NY
Seth Fearey, Associate Country Director, Peace Corps, Bishkek,
Kyrgyz Republic
David Feehan, Advisory
Panel Manager and Program Consultant,
International Downtown
Association, Washington, DC
David Fenton, CEO, Fenton Communications, New York, NY
Shari Garmise, Vice President for Knowledge Management and Development, International
Economic Development Council, Washington, DC
James
Garrison, President, Wisdom University, Mill Valley, CA
David Gershon, CEO, Empowerment Institute, New York, NY
Richard
David Hames, Professor and Director, Asian Foresight
Institute, Dhurakij Pundit University,
Bangkok, Thailand
James Hanusa, Independent
Consultant, San Francisco, CA
Ken Heatherington,
Executive Director, Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, Fort Myers, FL
Paul Hughes, President, Green Fox Energy Group, Newark, DE
Bianca Jagger, President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, London, UK
Calestous Juma,
Professor of the
Practice of International Development, and Director, Science, Technology, and
Globalization Project, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Daniel Kammen, Professor
and Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of
California, Berkeley, CA
Randall Kempner, Executive Director, Aspen Network for
Development Entrepreneurs,
Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
Michael Kennedy, President, Maryland Energy and Sustainability
Cooperative, Bethesda, MD
Richard
Lindberg, Founder and Chairman, Congress for Environmental Advancement, Lund,
Sweden
Steven
Lovink, President, Planet2025 Network, Washington, DC
Adalberto Maluf, City Coordinator, Clinton Climate
Initiative, Clinton Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tom McCawley,
CEO, Evergreen Asia Pacific Investment, Shanghai, China
Cynthia McEwen, Practice Leader, Sustainability &
Leadership, Avastone Consulting, Atlanta, GA
Peter Merry, Director, The Hague Center
for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence, Utrecht, Netherlands
Michael
Northrop, Program Director, Sustainable Development, Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
New York, NY
Lora O’Connor, Consulting Director, Social Media, Citizen Global, Los
Angeles, CA
Collin
O’Mara, Secretary, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,
State of Delaware, Dover, DE
Gerald Page,
Managing Director, Equinox Energy Partners Corporation, Beijing, China
Kathryn Papp, Associate Senior Fellow, National Council for
Science and the Environment, Washington, DC
Doug Payne, Executive Director, SolarTech
Consortium, San Jose, CA
Nicolai
Peitersen, CEO, Ethical Economy, London, UK
Andre
Pettigrew, Executive Director, Climate Prosperity, Inc., Washington, DC
Scott Polikov, Principal, Gateway Planning
Group, Austin, TX
Paul Ray, Director, Institute for the Emerging Wisdom Culture, Mill
Valley, CA
Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for
Transportation and Development Policy, Washington, DC
Renato Romano, Principal, Global Green
Partners, Los Angeles, CA
Kendra Sandoval, Social Venture Connector, Blue and Yellow Logic, Denver, CO
Marybeth
Schubert, Principal, Schubert Consulting, Santa Fe, NM
Steve Schueth, President, First Affirmative Financial Network, Colorado
Springs, CO
Richard Seline, Managing Principal, Regionnovate, Washington, DC
Nick Silver,
Director, Callund Consulting, London, UK
Jasper
Sky, Senior Fellow, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, Oxford,
UK
William
Stafford, President, Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, Seattle, WA
Sean
Sweeney, Director, Global Labor Institute, Cornell University, New York, NY
Richard Swett, CEO,
Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, Concord, NH
Kaarin Taipale,
Chair, Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction,
Ministry of the Environment, Government of
Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Martin Tull, Director of Sustainable Technology, Formos,
Portland, OR
Al
Victors, President, Creative i, Reno, NV
Wayne
Wescott, Principal, Wescott
and Wyman, Melbourne, Australia
Mark
Willis, Resident Fellow, Furman Center for
Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University, New York, NY
Eva Willmann de Donlea, Director, Beyond 2012-Climate Professionals, Sydney, Australia
Darcy
Stallings Winslow, Manager, Sustainable Enterprise Certificate Program,
Willamette University, Salem, OR
Susan Witt, Executive Director, E.F. Schumacher
Society, Great Barrington, MA
Michelle
Wyman, Principal, Wescott and Wyman, Washington, DC
Joel Yudken, Principal, High Road Strategies, Arlington, VA
Dimitri Zenghelis,
Senior Economic Advisor, Cisco Systems, and Senior Visiting Fellow, Grantham
Research Institute
on Climate Change and
the Environment, London School of Economics, London, UK
Larry Zinn,
Chairman, Green
Jobs Leadership Council, San Antonio, TX
Climate
Prosperity Alliance Working Groups
Coordination
with Climate Prosperity, Inc.
Co-Chairs: Michael Northrop,
Program Director, Sustainable Development, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York,
NY; Andre Pettigrew, Executive Director, Climate Prosperity,
Inc., Washington, DC.
Metrics–Outreach to Entrepreneurs and Policymakers. Co-Chairs: Andrea Bassi, Deputy Director for Project Development and
Modeling, Millennium Institute, Arlington, VA; Martin Tull, Director of
Sustainable Technology, Formos, Portland, OR.
Outreach to
Business Organizations.
Co-Chairs: Michael Fleming, President, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Alexandria, VA; Richard Fleming, President and CEO, St.
Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, St. Louis, MO.
Outreach to
Civic Organizations. Co-Chairs: Robert McNulty, President and CEO, Partners
for Livable Communities, Washington, DC; Adele Simmons, President, Global
Philanthropy Partnership, Chicago, IL.
Outreach to Economic Development Organizations. Co-Chairs, John Cleveland, Vice President, Innovation Network for Communities,
Tamworth, NH; Shari Garmise, Vice President for Knowledge
Management and Development, International Economic Development Council,
Washington, DC.
Outreach to Education and Research Institutions. Co-Chairs: James Gollub,
CEO, E-Cubed, San Francisco, CA; Joel
Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI, and Senior Advisor, Green for All, Oakland, CA.
Outreach to the Federal Government. Co-Chairs: Uwe Brandes, Vice President, Urban Land
Institute, Washington, DC; Emily Wadhams,
Vice President for Public Policy, National Trust for Historic Preservation,
Washington, DC.
Outreach to
Financial Institutions and Investors.
Co-Chairs: Paul Hughes, President, Green Fox
Energy Group, Newark, DE; Sean Kidney, Europe Manager,
Climate Risk, London, UK.
Outreach to Labor Organizations.
Co-Chairs: Lynn Hinkle,
Principal, HK Climate Solutions, Minneapolis, MN; Joel Yudken, Principal, High Road Strategies,
Arlington, VA.
Outreach to Land-Use and
Transportation Organizations. Co-Chairs: Parris Glendening,
President, Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Smart Growth America, Washington,
DC; Keith Laughlin, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy,
Washington, DC.
Outreach to Local Governments. Co-Chairs: Scott Polikov, Principal, Gateway Planning Group, Austin, TX; Graham Richard, Principal, Graham
Richard Associates, Ft. Wayne, IN.
Outreach to State
Governments.
Co-Chairs: Phil Angelides, Chairman,
Apollo Alliance, Sacramento, CA; Mary Jo
Waits, Director, Social, Economic, and Workforce Division, National
Governors Association, Washington, DC.
Outreach to Sustainability Organizations. Co-Chairs: Lynne Barker,
Program Director, STAR Community Index, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, USA
Office, Seattle, WA; Stephanie McClellan, Policy Director,
Office of the Governor, State of Delaware, Dover, DE.
Outreach to Urban and Regional Organizations. Co-Chairs: Doug Henton, Chairman and CEO, Collaborative Economics,
Mountain View, CA; Kim Walesh, Chief Strategist, Office of the City Manager, San
Jose, CA.
Promoting Innovative
Technologies and Policies. Co-Chairs: Jackie Roberts, Director of
Sustainable Technologies, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC; Richard Swett, CEO, Climate
Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, Concord, NH.
Former
Climate Prosperity Alliance Working Group Co-Chairs
Lucy Blake, Joe Cortright, David Engel, Robert Ferguson,
James Lopez, John Melville, Shelley Poticha, Ron Sims
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DOCUMENTS
Please feel free to read, download, and print out
the following documents provided in the links below. We will continue to update this section of
our website and add more documents.
Climate
Prosperity: A Framework for Sustainable Economic Development Strategies
Leaving Coal in the Ground: Building a Sustainable Economy and Ending a Global Health Crisis by 2030
Sustainable
Economic Development PowerPoint Presentation
New Plan:
A Win-Win for Iceland, the UK, and the Netherlands
Global Coal Transition and Cleantech Investment Initiative
Global
Climate Prosperity Scoreboard Media Release, December 4, 2009
Global Climate Prosperity
Scoreboard
Investing in Climate
Prosperity
Scoreboard Documents
$1.25 Trillion of Private Investments in Renewables
and Clean Tech Since 2007
Global
Climate Prosperity Agreement: “The One Trillion Dollar Deal”
Frequently
Asked Questions by Potential Investors about the Global Climate Prosperity
Agreement
Reviving
the Economy through Climate Prosperity
Climate
Prosperity: Why Marx was wrong and Mother Nature is right
Metropolitan Economic Strategy and
Climate Prosperity
Sustainable Urban
Development in the US
Silicon Valley
Climate Prosperity Strategy
State of Delaware Climate
Prosperity Strategy
State of Delaware
Climate Prosperity Strategy Media Release, February 16, 2009
Southwest
Florida Climate Prosperity Strategy
San Antonio Mission
Verde Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
Metropolitan
Portland Climate Prosperity Strategy
Climate Solutions 2: Low Carbon
Reindustrialization (Executive Summary)
Climate Solutions 2: Low Carbon
Reindustrialization (Full WWF Report)
Access to Energy for the
Base of the Pyramid
The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs,
Businesses, and Investments Across America
McKinsey
Global Institute Report on Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Developing World
Tomorrow’s Climate: Beyond
Peak Carbon
Energy
Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California
The
Economic Impact of the Florida Energy and Climate Change Action Plan on the
State’s Economy
Blue
Green Alliance Report on How to Revitalize America’s Middle Class with the
Clean Energy Economy
Climate Policy and
Energy-Intensive Manufacturing: Impacts and Options
Manufacturing Climate
Solutions
International Economic Development
Council (IEDC) Climate Prosperity Handbook
IEDC Climate Prosperity Handbook Press
Release, July 6, 2009
Sustainable Economic
Development: Initiatives, Programs, and Strategies for Cities and Regions
Evolution of
Climate Prosperity, 2007-2009
Climate Prosperity Incorporated
Congratulations Letter, June 1, 2009
Silicon
Valley Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
State
of Delaware Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Metropolitan
Denver Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Southwest Florida
Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Metropolitan
St. Louis Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Montgomery
County (Maryland) Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Metropolitan
Seattle Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Metropolitan
Portland Climate Prosperity Strategy Presentation, Feb. 21, 2009
Climate
Prosperity Strategy Regional Economic Development Framework Presentation, Feb.
21, 2009
Silicon
Valley Climate Prosperity Concept Paper
San
Jose’s ‘Green Vision’ Climate Prosperity Strategy
California Green
Innovation Index 2009
California Green
Innovation Index 2008
CEOs for Cities Report on Portland's Green Dividend
CEOs for Cities Report on The
Young and the Restless: How Portland Competes for Talent
Global
Philanthropy Partnership Report on the Chicago Climate Jobs Strategy
Urban
Land Institute Report on Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and
Climate Change
Sustainable Urban
Development in Canada
Curitiba Metropolitan Economic
Strategy Report
Portland
Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report
States,
Cities Step Up Climate Change Responses
Can America’s Mayors
Be World Players?
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Meeting Invitation Letter, Oct. 18, 2007
Economic Benefits of Climate Action Meeting Agenda,
Nov. 26-28, 2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Meeting Participants, Nov. 26-28, 2007
Climate
Prosperity Strategy Simulation Exercise, Nov. 26-28, 2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Meeting Summary, Nov. 26-28, 2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Presentation on Business Experience, Nov. 26-28,
2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Presentation on Green Innovation, Nov. 26-28, 2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Presentation on State Policy, Nov. 26-28, 2007
Economic
Benefits of Climate Action Presentation on Portland’s Green Dividend, Nov.
26-28, 2007
Climate
Prosperity, July 7-8, 2008 Strategic Planning Meeting Agenda
Climate
Prosperity, July 7-8, 2008 Strategic Planning Meeting Participants
Climate
Prosperity, Sept. 26, 2008 Leadership Strategy Meeting Participants
Cleantech
Venture Capital: How Public Policy has Stimulated Private Investment
Cutting Carbon Emissions at a
Profit: Opportunities for the United States
Cutting Carbon Emissions at
a Profit: Impacts on U.S. Competitiveness and Jobs
Climate
Group Summary Report on the Growth of the Low Carbon Economy
Climate
Group Report on Carbon Down, Profits Up
Climate
Group Report on Low Carbon Leader: States and Regions
Tallberg Foundation Report on Climate Change and Corporate
Strategy
Environmental Finance Article on the Good
News from the States
The American
Prospect 2009 Special Report on The Green Challenge
The American
Prospect 2007 Special Report on Emerald Cities:
The Promise of Green Development
Global Development, Climate Change,
and Population
2007 Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
U.K.
Government Stern Review on The Economics of Climate
Change
See for Yourself how
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions will Affect the American Economy
Putting Renewables
to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Generate?
An Integrated Analysis of Policies that Increase
Investments in Advanced Energy Efficiency
Clean Energy: Jobs for America’s Future
The Work that Goes into
Renewable Energy
Jobs versus the Environment: An
Industry-Level Perspective
The Costs of
Greenhouse Gas Abatement: A Meta-Analysis
Carbon Abatement
Costs: Why the Wide Range of Estimates?
Environmental
Protection in Transitional Economies: The Need for Economic Analysis