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.

Here is a compilation of Laser Talks from our Building Bridges National Conference – October 2018

French Laser Talks (Communiqu’ éclair) can be found here.

Carbon pricing:

• Carbon Fee and Dividend
• The Many Ways to Price Carbon
• 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 Conusmers
• Why We Prefer a Fee to Cap-and-Trade
• Cutting carbon is cheaper than you think – IPCC data
  

Canada:

• About Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
• Canada’s Current Climate Targets are Woefully Inadequate (Nov. 2016)
• Less than 5% of Canadian Economy is Trade Exposed (Nov. 2015)
• Canada and Fossil Fuel Subsidies (February 2018 data)
• 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’s Clean Technology Industry (updated Febr.2016)
• Canada can have 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
• How 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 will cost Canadians less money
• Three ways to reconcile Federal and Provincial Carbon Pricing Policies
• Carbon pricing, national unity and revenue neutrality
• Canadian Jobs and Carbon Pricing
• Impact of Carbon Fee and Dividend on Rural and Ordinary Canadians
• Canadian Companies Support a Carbon Tax  (Sept. 2016)
• Balancing the budget, social concerns and the climate crisis
• 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 (February 2018 Abacus polling data)