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C2ES is a Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit that lobbies policymakers and convenes business and environmental stakeholders to advance climate and energy policy. It launched in 2011 as the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The organization supports market-based strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ranks among the top environment policy think tanks in the world.
C2ES launched in 2011 as the direct successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The transition preserved key programs and institutional relationships, including the Business Environmental Leadership Council, which the Pew Center had started in 1998.
Nathaniel Keohane has served as president of C2ES since July 2021, having previously held senior roles at the Environmental Defense Fund and in the Obama White House. The board of directors is chaired by Theodore Roosevelt IV.
The Business Environmental Leadership Council is convened by C2ES and is described as the largest U.S.-based association of companies committed to advancing policy and business solutions to climate change. It started with 13 members in 1998 and by 2021 included 38 mainly Fortune 500 companies with combined revenue of nearly $3 trillion.
In 2021, C2ES ranked No. 43 among all think tanks in the United States and No. 5 among top environment policy think tanks in the world, according to the Global Go To Think Tank Rankings produced by the University of Pennsylvania.
C2ES led informal discussions among key UN negotiators before 2015 to explore options that fed into the Paris Agreement. In 2017, the organization coordinated a public letter from 25 major companies urging President Trump to keep the United States in the agreement, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post.