Anyone lobbying with CCL for the first time is invited. Before we embark on our meetings with Congress, it’s important for all participants to be familiar with CCL’s powerful approach to transformational advocacy. You’ll learn the blueprint, roles and teamwork that lead to a persuasive lobby meeting as we strive to gather important intel from Congressional offices and ensure our policy asks are impactful and well-received.

CCL State Coordinators, Group Leaders, and Liaisons are invited to join this special leadership meeting where we’ll discuss CCL’s path forward and our goals for this Congress. We’ll also share how CCL’s dedicated team of staff are primed and ready to support our invaluable volunteer leaders as we work together for change-making advocacy.

Put your lobby prep to the test with this interactive “game show” style coaching session. Based on the political profile of your member of Congress, CCL staffers will help you identify tailored messages and best practices for a highly effective lobby meeting.

Our work sparks passion, but a steadfast conviction we know best can be counterproductive to our relationships, communities and advocacy. Through reflection, dialogue, and personal stories, Drew Eyerly and Karina Ramirez will explore the tension between individualism and collective wellbeing. Participants will learn how entitlement can creep into advocacy and how CCL’s values encourage respectful, effective communication across differences. Show up for an empowering session with actionable steps for personal growth and community engagement as we root our work in humility, empathy, and shared purpose.

Social media is a powerful tool for grassroots lobbying and climate action. Join Elissa Tennant to learn how to use it to amplify your climate advocacy in D.C. and back home. We’ll get you started with a simple, five-step process to create your best possible, attention-grabbing post for Lobby Day.

As momentum builds around clean energy permitting reform, our panel of key industry and policy experts will explore the political dynamics shaping reform efforts, bipartisan messaging strategies, and the role grassroots advocates can play. We’ll learn about the prospects for policy, shifts in party priorities, and lessons from past negotiations as we examine how this complex policy area could evolve in the months ahead.

Join us for a timely conversation with our panelists on the future of our forests. The panel will unpack the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA)—one of our lobbying Asks—that accelerates science-based thinning, prescribed burns, and reforestation by cutting red tape. Hear how robust workforce investments, modern nurseries, and stronger community partnerships can complement FOFA, safeguard water and wildlife, curb mega-fires, and keep forests pulling carbon from the atmosphere.

Effective advocacy requires applying pressure on certain lawmakers at certain times. You can help make that happen! Whether your chapter needs more support for your media efforts, or you have lots of capacity and want to help other chapters, this session is for you. You'll practice your LTE and op-ed writing skills and learn best practices for working with other CCLers on media across state lines.

The U.S. remains the only developed economy globally without a national carbon price—distorting domestic perceptions of its viability. This session explores how carbon pricing has worked successfully across the world and how those lessons apply to the evolving U.S. conversation. Dr. Danny Richter will highlight the emerging fourth generation (4G) of U.S. carbon policy, centered on border adjustments and bipartisan interest in leveraging America’s carbon efficiency. Join us for a global tour of carbon pricing and a look at where U.S. policy may be headed next.