Acknowledgments
We are indebted to the following people for their involvement, contributions, and insight throughout the work of this project: Austin Becker (University of Rhode Island), Bidtah Becker (California’s Environmental Protection Agency), Ed Begley Jr. (Begley’s Best), Greg Bertelsen (Climate Leadership Council), Thomas Koch Blank (RMI), Don Boesch (University System of Maryland), Molly Braverman (Broadway Green Alliance), Bre’Anna Brooks (Walton Family Foundation), Martha Campbell (RMI), Anne Castle (University of Colorado Law School), Mia Cavaco (CLEO Institute), Karen Cecil (Cummins), Sweta Chakraborty (We Don’t Have Time), Susan Clayton (The College of Wooster), Olivia Collins (CLEO Institute), John Conger (International Military Council on Climate and Security), TJ Conway (RMI), Clare Doyle Dowd (BlocPower), Erin Driver Linn (Harvard University), Mark Dyson (RMI), Tom Erb (U.S. House of Representatives), Reagan Farr (Silicon Ranch), Anna Fendley (United Steelworkers), Emily Fischer (Science Moms), Emily Fisher (Edison Electric Institute), Chris Fox (Ceres), Jim Gandy (WLTX News19), Toni Goebel (Young Evangelicals for Climate Action), Elizabeth Gordon (NYSCRF), Kimberly Henderson (McKinsey), Laura Hillenbrand (Author), Alberto Ibargüen (John S. and James L. Knight Foundation), Tom Iseman (TNC), Nancy Jackson (Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience), Nayshma Jones (CLEO Institute), Christian Kamrath (Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience), Roopak Kandasamy (BlocPower), Sarah Kapnick (JPMorgan Chase), Tom Kiernan (American Rivers), Heidi Kindberg (HBO), EJ Klock-McCook (RMI), Margaret Leinen (Scripps Research Institute), Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale University), Caroline Lewis (CLEO Institute), Ed Maibach (George Mason University), Joseph Majkut (Center for Strategic and International Studies), John Marshall (Potential Energy Coalition), Angie Massie (The Weather Channel), Marna McDermott (Exelon Corporation), Adam McKay (Writer and Director), Eliot Metzger (WRI), Amy Meyer (WRI), James Mitchell (RMI), Raul Moas (John S. and James L. Knight Foundation), Brian Mormino (Cummins), David Muth (Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve), Paolo Natali (RMI), Lynn Paquin (CalPERS and CalSTERS), Justin J. Pearson (Memphis Community Against the Pipeline), Colby Pellegrino (Las Vegas Valley Water District), Ronald Piret (U.S. Navy), Alex Posner (Students for Carbon Dividends), Matthew Rice (American Rivers), Kathleen Ritzman (Scripps Research Institute), Philip Rosetti (R Street Institute), Karen Ross (California Department of Food and Agriculture), Cristine Russell (Harvard University), Howard Sappington (The Weather Channel), Dan Schrag (Potential Energy Coalition), Rachel Silverstein (Miami Waterkeeper), Antonique Smith (Hip Hop Caucus), Emma Stewart (Netflix), Ari Swiller (Renewable Resources Group), Heather Tansey (Cargill), Dustin Tingley (Harvard University), Robert Twilley (Louisiana Sea Grant), Alexandria Villaseñor (Earth Uprising), Cora Went (Sunrise Movement), Bernadette Woods Placky (Climate Central), Kassia Yanosek (McKinsey), Laura Zapata (Clearloop), and Ginger Zee (ABC News).
We are grateful to the staff members on the American Academy’s Science, Engineering, and Technology team: Carson Bullock, Kate Carter, Leo Curran, Tania Munz, Kelsey Schuch, and Jen Smith. We are also grateful to the Academy’s publications team: Phyllis Bendell, Key Bird, Scott Raymond, and Peter Walton. And lastly, thanks to former Science, Engineering, and Technology team members Sophia Charan and Islam Qasem.
The Commission on Accelerating Climate Action is made possible through the generous support of Roger Sant and Doris Matsui, William and Helen Pounds, Hansjörg Wyss, Bob Higgins, the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the David and Ellen Lee Family Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an endowment provided by John E. Bryson and Louise Henry Bryson.