Subject: [cdp] [Help Needed] #DirtyBudget | SFOPs Anti-Climate Amendment TP's and Targets
From: Phillip Ellis <[email-masked]>
To: Combined Defense Project <[email-masked]>, Budget-Appropriations List <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:57:19 +0000

It looks like the SFOP climate votes (Paris Climate treat et al.) will be tomorrow night. Our SFOP policy expert, Jesse from Oxfam, forwarded this help request on fighting off a few harmful amendments on international climate treaties.

He prioritizes the House Dems who voted in favor of the Motion to Recommit on H.R. 9.

*       Brindisi
*       Craig
*       Golden
*       Gottheimer
*       Harder
*       Horn
*       Houlahan
*       Lamb
*       McAdams
*       Peterson
*       Rose (NY)
*       Slotkin
*       Torres-Small
*       Van Drew

Below are some sample social media posts from our toolkit. You can also use the call-in tool from my previous email.

The vast majority of voters want to see bold movement to #ActOnClimate. Trump's #DirtyBudget fails this mandate by attacking critical safeguards for our kids' health and the great outdoors and ignoring our commitments to the Paris agreement.

Trump's #DirtyBudget fails to #ActOnClimate and ignores the vast majority of voters calling for bold action. @[TARGET] must reject this inaction by honoring our commitments to the landmark Paris agreement!

Our country's commitment to the landmark Paris agreement is the first step of many needed to #ActOnClimate. @[TARGET] keep fighting for a budget that honors our commitments & invests in protections for our children's health and the great outdoors!

Hardworking families know it's time to #ActOnClimate and honor our commitment to the Paris agreement. @[TARGET], vote for a budget that protects our kids' health and the great outdoors!

Jesse provided a few key talking points in the email below. Please reach out to him if you have any questions.

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Phillip Ellis
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
202.320.2044

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From: Jesse Young <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 3:12 PM
Subject: [approps] SFOPs Anti-Climate Admt TPs
To: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>

As just mentioned. Thanks!

OPPOSE Amendments to slash funds for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

*       The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is a treaty body that the U.S. joined in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush (unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate), and it helps coordinate diplomatic cooperation on climate change. The Trump Administration supports US membership in the UNFCCC, and has requested funds for a US contribution to the body in its FY19 and FY20 budget requests.

*       Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s premier international body dedicated to synthesizing climate science and assessing the projected impacts of global warming - including the work of leading U.S. scientists. This Nobel Prize-winning science body is the last word on the state of climate science, and they published their landmark (and shocking) Special Report on 1.5°C Degrees<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html> last fall. The Trump Administration remains supportive of the IPCC’s work.

*       The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest and most innovative climate change multilateral fund, dedicated to making transformative investments that reduce emissions and help poorer countries adapt to climate impacts. The GCF is an independent institution managed by its own board of directors (on which the U.S. sits) -- it is not a “UN fund,” it and mobilizes its resources<https://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/resource-mobilization> independently: thus far, some 43 countries have pledged money to the GCF, including 9 developing nations like Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia.

   *    The GCF’s projects so far are expected to increase the resilience of over 275 million people and reduce 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
   *    By assisting developing countries, the GCF actively supports US economic and security interests. It can promote growth in countries that support American exports and jobs.
   *    The GCF has a strong focus on working with the private sector. This is not just an afterthought, it’s central into the GCF’s design, highlighted by a Private Sector Facility in the Fund and a Private Sector Advisory Group.
   *    The GCF is directly supporting projects implemented by U.S. companies<https://www.treasury.gov/about/budget-performance/CJ17/FY%202017%20Congressional%20Justification%20FINAL%20VERSION%20PRINT%202.4.16%2012.15pm.pdf#page=54>. One example is Acumen Fund<https://acumen.org/>, a New York-based impact investor. It has received financing from the GCF to create a private equity fund for small- and medium-enterprises bringing off-grid solar power to 15 million people in Kenya and Rwanda, and to support early-growth of micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprise agribusinesses that enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers in Africa to more extreme weather conditions.

   OPPOSE Amendments permitting U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

*       Paris is the first international agreement to hold India and China accountable for reducing their emissions. Even the Trump Administration has praised this element of the Agreement, noting in late 2018 that<https://www.state.gov/outcome-of-the-24th-session-of-the-conference-of-the-parties-cop24-to-the-un-framework-convention-on-climate-change-unfccc/>, “The outcome took a significant step toward holding our economic competitors accountable for reporting their emissions in a manner consistent with standards the United States has met since the early 1990s.”
*       The U.S. is presently the only country in the world with an announced plan to exit the Paris Agreement.
*       One study<https://thinkprogress.org/trump-climate-policies-cost-us-economy-6-trillion-new-study-575120a5870a/> suggests that if the United States failed to meet its Paris climate goals, it could cost the economy as much as $6 trillion in the coming decades. A worldwide failure to meet the NDCs currently laid out in the agreement could reduce global GDP more than 25 percent<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0071-9.epdf?referrer_access_token=SuhzqbWxTz1OoxRRTMPlQtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OskypFEzLGji1pAcPpJpRUDDQraVc1GUbSttWiyoT8BjjCIHkomS6llWooeXnRA23M32PouG8Kqr7Zzf-KNT6rtb3YaD04_bYBkVQh0nPISrMSFvneLBSlKEZNxSL7Da> by century’s end. Meanwhile, another study<https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/paris-climate-agreements-19-trillion-economic-prize> estimates that meeting—or even exceeding—the Paris goals via infrastructure investments in both clean energy and energy efficiency could have major global rewards—to the tune of some $19 trillion.
*       The U.S. does not owe money to the Paris Agreement, and we are not on the hook for payments to international climate bodies: in the past, the U.S. has voluntarily contributed money to help make climate-smart investments overseas.

Jesse Young

Policy Lead, Climate Change

Oxfam America<https://www.oxfamamerica.org/>

Mobile: +1 (323) 547-5186

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