The Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP) is the result of nearly a year of research and collaboration led by the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs and advised by some of America’s leading experts in climate science and policy. I served as the primary representative for green building and development when employed by Lend Lease in 2007.
As its name implies, PCAP was a plan created for the President of the United States to take decisive action on global warming, with an emphasis on the first 100 days in office. Work continued throughout the 2008 election season to improve and update the plan based on emerging science, policy ideas, new research, and action by the Administration and Congress. In addition, the PCAP team solicited comments in a national dialogue on climate change. The final plan was issued in September 2008. PCAP offered scores of recommendations across more than a dozen economic sectors and issue areas, including carbon pricing and caps, energy policy, economic impacts, national security, transportation, buildings, public health, agriculture, ocean ecology, natural resource stewardship, and assistance to communities and states.
Review the Presidential Climate Action Plan here in full.