PacCLEAN.org is a citizen advocacy organization working to pass public policies that support the rapid development of greenhouse gas removal capacity throughout the Pacific Coast region.
THE SCIENCE
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need to clean up past pollution and reduce ongoing pollution to avoid catastrophic warming.
According to several recent reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we’ve been too slow to curb greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, it is no longer possible to keep global warming down to 1.5 degrees with just emissions reductions (e.g. renewable energy or electric vehicles). We also must deploy technology that actively cleans up the 1.5 trillion tons of climate pollution that humanity has already spilled into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. We have metaphorically created a giant oil spill in the sky. We need to clean that up. And we can!
OUR APPROACH
We are a network of volunteers united by the belief that government needs to play a crucial role in ensuring past climate pollution gets cleaned up.
After decades of slow action from major polluters, we believe governments need to step in.
There’s a variety of mechanisms government can use to help us clean up climate pollution—from holding polluters accountable to accelerating the deployment of technologies that effectively and permanently remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere for centuries to come.
Currently, the Action Network exists to encourage rapid collaborative action on the development and deployment of all safe, effective, and permanent methods of greenhouse gas removal in the Pacific Coast region. Together, we’ll create compatible, cross-border policies that set the Pacific Coast region up as a leader in the emerging global endeavor to clean up legacy climate pollution.
