Conservatives have REAL Climate Solutions

  • Conservation of nature
  • Tax Cuts & Price Signals
  • Innovative circular economy
  • Drive inflation down and prosperity up
  • Cut the real costs of energy
  • Support clean energy choices

Help pro-climate Republicans drive carbon to Net Zero in a generation, while we keep America strong, prosperous, and free.

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Solution Conservatives Are:

  • Hunters, fishers, farmers and ranchers.
  • Innovators, creators, and makers
  • Scientists, engineers, and builders.
  • Entrepreneurs creating businesses large, small, for-profit, and non-profit.

They are ALL dedicated to problem-solving, not polarization.

Here’s what conservatives support

The Agenda

Over 70% of informed Americans champion a climate agenda that combines clean energy choices, conservation of nature, and smart incentives to drive carbon to Net Zero. Here are six pillars of a pragmatic climate agenda conservatives and liberals can both champion. 

CLEAN ENERGY CHOICES FOR ALL

An “all of the above” strategy that empowers citizens to choose solar, wind, hydrogen, nuclear, and low-carbon oil and gas, with carbon capture, tax cuts, and rational incentives that internalize environmental costs so Americans can make choices that benefit us all.

UNLOCK AMERICA’S RESOURCES TO BEAT RUSSIA AND CHINA

America is the world’s clean industry leader. It’s simplistic to shut down American energy and mineral production and exports, and hand the global market to Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. Our economy is 3-5 times more carbon-efficient than authoritarian states like theirs. American manufacturing is the cleanest in the world. Dependence on China and Russia for oil, gas, lithium, copper, cobalt, graphite, and nickel threatens our environment, economy, and security.

FAST-TRACK CLEAN PROSPERITY AND CREATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES.

We’ve let too much power slip from local citizens and small businesses to government elites and crony capitalists who think it’s their job to run our lives for us, at our expense. Cut the red tape and burdensome regulations that harm small and local businesses and stop projects essential to update the grid, build clean energy projects, secure critical energy and mineral resources domestically, end dependence on China, and restore America's clean manufacturing leadership.

HARNESS AMERICAN INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

Thanks to innovation, America has reduced its emissions by more than any other country in the last 20 years. Innovative technology, government-backed research, competitive market forces, and above all diverse people across many cultures with the freedom to create are the most powerful ways to cut carbon emissions, and lead us along a soft path to a more resilient, prosperous, circular economy. Digital innovations have the capacity to transform our economy and culture from an industrial-era consumption machine propped up by massive government spending, to an innovative economy that empowers people to create value that lasts.

ELIMINATE POLLUTION SUBSIDIES

When it’s free to pollute, we get too much of it. When we privatize prosperity but socialize the costs, we raise barriers to creative, innovative solutions that drive waste toward zero. We need clean tax cuts, carbon border adjustments, and other smart incentives to drive carbon emissions down across the economy.

HARNESS NATURE’S SOLUTIONS

Hunters, fishers, farmers, and ranchers were America’s first conservationists. They’ve learned that nature is our most reliable guide to sustainability. Natural climate solutions – planting trees and farming practices that reduce chemical dependence and improve soil health – have a major impact on reducing carbon emissions while making forests and farms more resilient to floods and fires. Nature has had four billion years to fashion the systems that create and support life. Now hunters, fishers, farmers, and ranchers young and old are leading the way to regenerative agriculture while engineers and scientists learn how to grow a sustainable economy, and artists, makers, and creators grow a richer, more meaningful, and more connective culture.

We need real climate solutions. Conservatives have them.

Human-caused climate change is a fact. But some proposed “solutions” would make things worse.

Human-caused climate change is a fact.

But some proposed “solutions” would make things worse.

Conservatives know how to protect our air, water, and land, protecting creation without sacrificing freedom, justice, prosperity, or security. 

From Lincoln and TR, to Nixon and Reagan, to the landmark wilderness act signed by President Trump, this is our table.

But too many conservatives have stepped away from the table. And too many culture warriors on both sides have pushed us away.

Now we’re back, for good.

Human-caused climate change is a fact. The carbon we spew into our atmosphere acts like a blanket that traps heat, and drives up average temperatures globally.

It’s time to remove the carbon blanket. But how? Some proposed “solutions” make things worse, by shifting too much power to big government and corporate cronyism.

To drive carbon to Net Zero in a generation, and keep America strong, prosperous, and free, please heed the wisdom that conservatives bring:

  • DON’T subsidize Russia’s dirty oil, by limiting sale of US oil and gas to Europe.
  • DON’T pay for the war against Ukraine, by selling Russian oil and gas here.
  • DON’T exploit China’s forced labor, by exporting American manufacturing jobs.
  • DON’T oversell big government mandates - blunt weapons cause collateral damage.
  • DO CONSERVE NATURE. Healthy land, oceans, and forests that serve many uses are how nature keeps a healthy climate.
  • DO OFFER CHOICES. Diversity is healthy, in nature and markets. Renewables, electrification, carbon capture, low-carbon oil and gas, advanced nuclear and more all play a part.
  • DO INNOVATE. We don’t know every step to Net Zero yet. But we know how to find them. Reward innovation with pollution pricing, source reduction, advanced recycling, and a sustainable circular economy.
  • DO NOT PANIC. DO NOT RAGE. Panic is not a policy, demands are not solutions, and outrage deepens our divide. Let’s end the culture war on climate, and deliver Net Zero carbon in a generation, with prosperity, security, independence, freedom and justice for all. Join us.

What's wrong with a Green New Deal

Many progressive activists think we need a Green New Deal with a powerful central government to ban fossil fuels and mandate a sustainable economy powered by solar and wind electricity – with “guaranteed” high-wage jobs and “free” health care, college educations, and housing for all.

Sound appealing? To some, yes. But conservatives know these promises are worse than empty. Simple-minded absolutist agendas end disastrously in the real world, whether pushed by authoritarians on the right or left.

Progressives may have good intentions. But their “guarantees” would drive prices up, export jobs, harm the poor, penalize the working and middle class, sap our freedom and prosperity, and weaken America, shifting global wealth and power to Russia’s and China’s oligarchs and authoritarians.

Meanwhile, global emissions would soar, since these government-run economies are 3-5 times as carbon intensive per unit of production as ours.

Conservatives support real climate and energy solutions. Pragmatic solutions that create prosperity, and spread it broadly, by systematically reducing the economic, social, and environmental costs of living.

From right to left, 7 in 10 informed Americans support these pragmatic solutions. Let’s get this done.

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CONSERVATIVES HAVE REAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

Americans don’t have to trade away freedom and prosperity to protect life on earth.
We don’t need authoritarians from the left or right to tell us how to live.
Conservatives have real climate solutions that work.

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