Climate Change requires STRATEGIES
About Us
Our Mission
Work with others to develop and implement smart, shared solutions to climate change, economic development, social equity, and sustainability. We provide broad experience and expertise for all levels of government and economic sectors with a successful track record in the US and developing regions.
Our Vision
Our vision is a world where governments, stakeholders, and citizens adopt the values, concepts, and techniques needed to stabilize the earth’s climate, promote social justice and economic equity, and sustain our use and management of energy and natural resources for all people. We value transformative success driven by genuine caring for all people and the natural environment, respect for informed local self-determination, fact-driven analysis of development opportunities, and the integrity, inclusion, and innovation of our work with others.
The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) has implemented over 100 projects and partnerships in key regions of the world. Our capabilities include thought leadership, strategy, analysis, innovation, outreach, training, tools, and advanced facilitation and technical assistance. CCS proven strengths are economic recovery, stakeholder collaboration, social equity, objective analysis, non-partisan approaches, and broad expertise.
Our capacity building processes typically combine curriculum and workshop-based instruction with customized tool development with follow on "learning-by-doing" activities for planning, evaluation, and implementation of actions by expert work groups. Cooperative support is provided through both on-line and in-person activities.
Our History
The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) was founded in 2004 in response to the US experience during the Kyoto Protocol period and the need for consensus-based, stakeholder driven approaches to climate change, economic, energy, and environmental progress. This led to the creation of CCS as a nonprofit organization to provide an independent, nonpartisan mechanism and the capacity to enable collaboration across the US.
To achieve our mission in the decade that followed, we developed and applied a signature consensus building process through 20 governor lead climate action plans in US states involving over 1,500 public and private stakeholders. The success of this approach led to the creation of similar processes in the Border States of Mexico in 2007 and the Provinces of China in 2009 and has since become a global program supporting global climate stabilization goals in key regions of the world.
Today, CCS focuses on high impact partnerships and support in all economic sectors for planning and engagement, decision tools, impact analysis, capacity building, and implementation for multi objective actions to stabilize the climate, recover the economy, and create sustainable future for everyone..