Campaigns Overview

In 2005, more than 3,000 Sierra Club members, including 1,000 chapter and group delegates, met at the Sierra Summit to define the Club's directions and priorities. They recommended that addressing global warming be the Club's top priority for the next decade.

In January of 2007 the Club released, in partnership with the American Solar Energy Society, a major report, "Tackling Climate Change," prepared by leading academics and government scientists showing how the US could reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 80% by 2050. This report became the Sierra Club's Climate Recovery Road Map.

Since then, with careful though and collaboration among our volunteers, grass roots activists, staff, and the world's foremost leading experts on global climate change, these ideas have been shaped into six different campaigns that comprise the Climate Recovery Partnership. The Partnership goals are as follows:

Strategies for Climate Repair

Beyond Coal

Moving the United States beyond coal, with the goals of stopping a major source of greenhouse gases, setting an example for developing nations that continue to rely on coal, and opening a market need for alternate energy sources that will create jobs and hasten economic recovery.

Beyond Oil

To keep fossil fuels in the ground, the Beyond Oil Campaign is preventing drilling in special places like the Arctic, opposing tar sands development, and promoting low-carbon fuels, electric vehicles, and smarter transportation systems.

Strategies for Climate Recovery

Resilient Habitats

To build habitat resilience, we must protect large, wild areas as parks, refuges, and wilderness areas and connect them via migration corridors; reduce non-climate stresses; and apply adaptive management techniques such as habitat restoration.

Protecting America's Waters

To protect America's waters, the campaign will champion, improve, and restore our waters and better the communities that rely on them by fostering alliances to promote water quality monitoring, public education, and citizen action.