Global Warming Policy and the Poor

Special invitation from CPPP

Please join Environmental Defense and the Center for Public Policy Priorities on September 19 in Austin for lunch and a discussion of the effect of potential political responses to climate change on low-income families.

This session is part of CPPP's 2008 William P. Hobby Policy Conference.  The conference is September 18-19 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin. You can register for the lunch and climate change session or for the full two-day conference at http://www.cppp.org/hobbyconference/. Cost for just the Friday lunch and panel on climate change is $25. Cost for the full conference is $100.

Bob Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C., will give a presentation during lunch on the impact of a cap-and-trade approach on low-income people and communities.  Following the lunch, Senator Rodney Ellis, Ramon Alvarez of Environmental Defense, Cyrus Reed of the Sierra Club, and Dick Lavine of CPPP will engage in a panel discussion on the measures needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the consequences of creating caps on emission.

This workshop combines the expertise in environmental policy of Environmental Defense and the Sierra Club with CPPP’s focus on low- and moderate-income Texas families and on the state budget. Senator Ellis will offer his insider’s view of the possibility for action on climate change by the 81st Legislature. 

Seating is limited, so please register in advance!