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Goals of the American Climate Alliance
 Short-term Goals – 2008/2009
• The Foundation For the Future established the American Climate Alliance in September, 2008 and set up an ACA Organizing Committee to develop the alliance. Completed.
• Develop a short-term plan of action. In process.
• Hire an ACA Project Manager and staff. In process.
• Compile a database of American organizations involved in climate action, climate research, corporations concerned with energy and global climate change, corporations involved in climate mitigation technologies, and government departments involved in climate change activities. In process.
• Develop relationships with people, organizations, and institutions that are at the forefront of taking action concerning global climate change. In process.
• Invite prominent climate scientists and senior representatives of relevant organizations to participate in a series of ACA Planning Committee meetings. In process.
• Convene a series of ACA Planning Committee meetings.
• Invite senior representatives of relevant organizations to participate in the development of the ACA Action Plans.
• Develop short, intermediate, and long-term ACA Action Plans.
• Convene a series of follow-up meetings of senior representatives of relevant organizations to implement and manage the ACA Action Plans.
• Publish a brochure on the purposes and goals of the ACA.
• Produce a video on the purposes and goals of the ACA.
• Develop a state of the art website to explain the purposes and gloals of the American Client Alliance, to facilitate communications between ACA constituent organizations, and to implement and manage the ACA Action Plans.
• Develop detailed schedules for the American Climate Alliance Action Plans.
• Draft preliminary budgets for the implementation and management of the ACA Action Plans.
• Implement and manage the ACA Action Plans.
• Hire a public relations firm to develop a comprehensive American Climate Alliance Public Relations Plan.
• Implement and manage the ACA Public Relations Plan.
 Intermediate-term Goals – 2009/2010
• Identify volunteer lobby groups from ACA constituent organizations.
• Develop a plan to have the ACA constituent organizations systematically lobby Congress.
• Brief congressional staffs and invite them to participate in the development of the ACA Action Plans.
• Brief prominent senators and congresspersons, and invite them to participate in the development of the ACA Action Plans.
• Write criteria for the establishment of the National Climate Administration (NCA).
• Encourage and assist congressional staffs to write a bill authorizing the creation of the National Climate Administration (NCA).
 Longer-term Goals – 2010/2011
• Assist in the establishment of a fully funded NASA-type agency in the United States, the National Climate Administration (NCA), to assume world technology leadership in confronting the global climate problem.
• Outline the goals of the National Climate Administration (NCA).
• Develop a National Climate Administration Ten-year Technology Development Plan to substantially mitigate global climate impact by 2020.
• Export the new climate change mitigation technologies to countries around the world through United Nations agencies and international organizations.
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