Climate Leadership Council

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Greg Bertelsen
CEO
Climate Leadership Council

Recent work

Succeeded founding CEO Ted Halstead (who passed in 2020). Leads CLC's carbon-dividend and border-adjustment advocacy. CLC's plan presumes a regulated carbon market with high integrity.

Signals the recipient responds to

Carbon-dividend architecture focus
Border-adjustment advocacy
Bipartisan corporate coalition

Organisational context

Positions

CLC's carbon-dividend plan requires a regulated carbon market with trustable per-tonne accounting.

Active initiatives

Carbon dividends; border adjustments; coalition-building.

Pressures

Plan's viability depends on evidentiary integrity of the underlying carbon-price signal.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: CLC position that property-based disclosure is a precondition for carbon-dividend viability frames proof-pack disclosure as the foundation of a functional priced-carbon economy. Bertelsen's coalition gives this framing bipartisan corporate reach.

Why now: Ongoing advocacy cycles.

The ask: CLC policy note co-authored with Trellison on evidentiary-integrity as carbon-dividend precondition.

Chamber

Climate Leadership Council

Target program

Carbon Dividends and Border Adjustment

Why this chamber

CLC's carbon dividend plan presumes a regulated carbon market with high integrity. Proof-pack disclosure is one precondition for carbon-dividend-scale accounting to be trusted.

The ask

CLC position that property-based disclosure is a precondition for carbon-dividend viability.

Deliverable

CLC policy note co-authored with Trellison.

The co-dependence network

Trellison Institute

Research and methodology.

Carbon capture research →

Artrellion

Policy and stakeholder engagement.

Carbon release arsenal →

LedgerWell

Operational verification.

Carbon business cases →