Endorsements — Citizens' Climate Higher Education
Endorsements
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Citizens' Climate Higher Education
Resources

Signer Press Release Templates for EICDA and Carbon Pricing Endorsements

Road map to the President's endorsement

Endorsement presentation

Blog article on getting the president’s endorsement

Endorsement Letter

As leaders of higher education institutions, we call upon our elected representatives to act collectively on behalf of current and future generations by putting a price on carbon. We work to prepare our students for thriving futures, over which climate change casts a dark shadow of uncertainty. Putting a price on carbon pollution is an indispensable step we can take to effectively combat climate change.

Carbon pricing creates an economy-wide incentive to reduce greenhouse gases in economically efficient ways that can, if revenues are used wisely, benefit low-income households while stimulating job growth. The World Bank has endorsed carbon pricing as a way to accurately account for the external costs of emissions, like crop loss, flood damage, and medical treatments that result from heat waves and other climate change disasters. Thousands of businesses support carbon pricing for its transparent and predictable approach.

Dozens of countries and jurisdictions across the world have already enacted carbon pricing mechanisms, and the evidence is in: carbon pricing enables renewable energy to flourish, helps phase out polluting energy sources, and lowers emissions. A strong carbon price will rise quickly enough to work without burdening low-income and middle-class families, and won’t create new dependencies on profits from carbon-based energy.

It is time for the United States to lead on this defining issue of our time, and protect the health and well-being of current and future generations. By making carbon-intensive industries pay a fair share of the costs of their pollution, we will have cleaner air and healthier communities, and prevent the most devastating effects of climate change. We therefore ask our elected officials to proactively work to enact a carbon price on the state and national level.

In the Media

All Supporters | Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (energyinnovationact.org)

Student government leaders support carbon dividends

Over 3500 economists support carbon dividends

Cities and municipal councils in the United States have also endorsed carbon pricing. Click here for a full list of municipal endorsements. Click here for municipal endorsements for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act.

President Valerie Smith of Swarthmore College endorses the initiative in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Two Huffington Post op-eds from President Oxtoby of Pomona College and Neil Leary of Dickinson College

Inside Higher Ed, with 1.8 million unique monthly visitors.

Higher Education Today, a blog from American Council on Education.

Several local and campus newspapers, including Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Loyola University Chicago, and Fordham University.

Featured in AASHE's newsletter

Extensive social media coverage, as the news has been shared by Years of Living Dangerously (over 2 million followers) and Twilight actress Nikki Reed, among other organizations.