Climate Change Leadership Institute

The Climate Change Leadership Institute (CCLI) is a civil society based non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the climate crisis and spearheading the clean energy revolution. With these aims in mind, we do annual direct action projects, give out seed grants and leadership awards, offer student internships and stewardship workshops and provide streaming ways for you to demonstrate personal responsibility (see below). Become a CCLI member and together we will put America at the helm of sustainability.

Watch our lead your revolution video

DEMONSTRATE YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY:
click the following links to participate in LEAD YOUR REVOLUTION (ccli's member site and social action network for clean energy & climate stewardship), COOL THE CLIMATE (a climate leadership endeavor), CONSERVATION QUEST (an energy & water conservation challenge), POWER PLEDGE (a to z ways to enact a sustainable future) and LIFT THE FOG (a sustainable development action plan to make oil & gas drilling and fracking more responsible).

CCLI's Action Project - Cool the Climate

Our Mission

The Climate Change Leadership Institute is founded on a most challenging premise – that the United States of America can correct her mistakes and be at the forefront in achieving a sustainable way of life on earth. The act of taking responsibility is at the heart of the change we seek given that human-induced global warming poses a growing threat to the world and the US, the lead perpetrator of the problem, is only begining to change. When we compel our Nation to fully own up to this injustice and take unparalleled measures of climate restoration and restitution, genuine security and widespread prosperity will emerge. As we revolutionize our economy – to be powered completely with clean energy and state of the art energy efficiency with a premium on conservation – we will once again be a beacon of light to the world.

In carrying out the mission – to compel the US to take responsibility for our massive role in human-induced global warming by asserting bold leadership and providing seminal solutions – the Climate Change Leadership Institute adopts the following central organizing principles and approaches to change-making.