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Forging Climate Solutions

About the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action

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Commission on Accelerating Climate Action

The Commission on Accelerating Climate Action was formed in 2021 by the American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Arts and Sciences. The Commission’s work answers two core questions: 1) What policies would most effectively and equitably remove barriers to climate action? 2) How can the United States accelerate climate mitigation and adaptation strategies for all Americans? While the science of climate change is well-established, the Commission leverages its diverse composition to identify strategies for building a durable and inclusive political coalition for climate action. In the first phase of the project, the Commission interviewed seventy experts across three domains—communication, the private sector, and human and national security—which enabled the Commission to assess the national landscape on climate action.
 

Chairs
 

Mustafa Santiago Ali
National Wildlife Federation; Revitalization Strategies

Christopher Field
Stanford University

David G. Victor
University of California, San Diego

Patricia Vincent-Collawn
PNM Resources

 

Commission Members
 

Benjamin Backer
American Conservation Coalition

Phyllis L. Bayer
Dumbarton Strategies, LLC

Mitchell Bernard
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Philip Bredesen
State of Tennessee; Silicon Ranch

Patricia Cochran
Alaska Native Science Commission

Ertharin Cousin
Food Systems for the Future

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

L. Kealoha Fox
Institute for Climate & Peace

Tim Guinee
Climate Actors

Rebecca Henderson
Harvard University

Mitchell C. Hescox
Evangelical Environmental Network

Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Mission Possible Partnership

Russel L. Honoré
Joint Task Force Katrina, Leadership, Safety & Global Preparedness Authority

Bob Inglis
republicEn.org

Kathleen Hall Jamieson
University of Pennsylvania

Alexander Karsner
X (Alphabet Inc.)

Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker

John Paul Mejia
Sunrise Movement

Kate Orff
SCAPE

David W. Oxtoby
American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Arts and Sciences

Gary Roughead
Hoover Institution

Linda Rudolph
Public Health Institute; Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health

Roger Sant
The Summit Foundation

J. Marshall Shepherd
University of Georgia

Doreen Stabinsky
College of the Atlantic

Hilary Tompkins
Hogan Lovells

Elke Weber
Princeton University