Laser Talks

Practice our laser talks:

Learn to speak about climate change like an expert.

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRACTICE LASER TALKS:

• PAIR AND SHARE: Practice the laser talks with a partner over coffee.
• MIRROR WORK: Rehearse them in front of a mirror.
• PICK AND CHOOSE: Practice the laser talks that interest you the most – you don’t have to learn all of them.  If you are new to Citizens’ Climate Lobby – keep it simple. The first six laser talks are the most important, along with the laser talks directed at the various political parties.

Note that the laser talks are not meant for people to present as monologues. The real purpose of the laser talks is to facilitate a discussion on climate change with our political representatives, the media and the general public.

Compilations

• Spring 2022 CCL Canada LASER Talks
• CCL Canada Laser Talks Booklet Compilation 2021 (pdf)
• CCL Canada LASER Talks Booklet updated November 2020 (pdf)
• CCL Canada LASER Talks Booklet updated November 2020  (Word)
• French Laser Talks (Communiqu’ éclair) can be found here.

Carbon pricing:

• Carbon Fee and Dividend / Climate Income
• The Many Ways to Price Carbon
• Carbon‌ ‌Pricing‌ ‌is‌ ‌the‌ ‌Most‌ ‌Silver‌ ‌Bullet-ish‌ ‌Policy‌ ‌We‌ ‌Know‌ ‌Of‌
• Pembina Simulator Finds Pricing Pollution Core Component of Cost-Effective Climate Plan
• Why We Want 100% Revenue Neutrality
• How a revenue carbon pricing alone will spur low-carbon investments
• Reframing the high cost of carbon
  
• You Had Me at ‘Pigovian’
• Carbon Fee and Dividend Will Reward Carbon Conscious Consumers
• Why We Prefer a Fee to Cap-and-Trade
• Cutting carbon is cheaper than you think – IPCC data

Canada:

• Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act 
• About Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
• The Environmental Commissioner’s Report on Carbon Pricing
• Tracking Canada’s Climate Action 2010-2020
• Balancing the budget, social concerns, and the climate crisis
• Fair Path Forward’s Rebate Generator
• Less than 5% of the Canadian Economy is Trade Exposed
• Output-Based Carbon Pricing 
• In-Depth Output-Based Carbon Pricing 
• Stop the Dash to Gas in the Electricity Sector
• Methane and Climate Policy
• Complementary Carbon Pricing Policies
• CCL Canada’s Carbon Pricing Criteria
• Canada and the FASTER Principles 
• Our Guidelines for Canada’s Carbon Pricing Policy
• Carbon Pricing is the Way Forward (April 2015, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission Report)
• Canada can have 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
• How 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 will cost Canadians less money
• Carbon pricing, national unity and revenue neutrality
• Canadian Jobs and Carbon Pricing
• Canadian Companies Support a Carbon Tax
• Reminder that Canada’s Carbon Pricing Policy is Revenue Neutral

Polling data

• Canadian Opinions on Climate Change 
• Millennials, Elections, and Climate Change
• The Conservative Gap

Effective Climate Communications 

• Evidence-based climate communications
• Best Practices for Empowering Non-Voters to Vote
• Canada, Climate Change and the muddled “Moveable Middle”