Lobby Meeting Toolkit 🧰

Complete Guide: This guide provides step-by-step instructions, best practices, conversation tips, and engagement strategies to ensure that your lobbying efforts help build relationships and grow the climate movement in an effective and inclusive way.

Meeting checklist

📁 Materials for your meeting

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Sample Meeting Plan

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Primary Asks

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Secondary Asks

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Meeting Roles

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Primary and Supporting Asks

For the best lobby day experience, it is recommended that all participants watch the Primary and Supporting Asks training(s). Additional training will be provided at the conference.

  House and Senate Democrats Senate Republicans House Republicans
Primary Ask
Support the Clean Energy Transition
  • Permitting Reform
  • Fund Clean Energy Programs
Support the Clean Energy Transition
  • Fund Clean Energy Programs
  • Tax Credit Implementation
  • Permitting Reform
Secondary Ask
  • Fix Our Forests Act
  • Fix Our Forests Act
  • Optional Foreign Pollution Tariff
  • Optional Foreign Pollution Tariff
Summer 2025 Lobby Training #1: Primary & Secondary Asks
Recorded
Summer 2025 Lobby Training #2: Legislative Plan and Q&A
Recorded
Summer 2025 Lobby Training #3: Lobby Plan Q&A
Recorded

🎓 Preparing to Lobby

Visit the Preparing for Lobby Day page for more important details regarding recommended training, the lobby meeting appointment setting process and team creation, and how to plan and best prepare for lobby day.

Climate Advocate Training

Climate Advocate Training is required for all first time lobbying participants. Climate Advocate Training will also be available as a conference session. Additional training will be provided at the conference.

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Climate Advocate Training
New Lobby Participants
Recorded version available

Additional Upcoming Training

Summer Conference & Lobby Day Logistics and Q&A
Recorded
New Participants
Lobby Meeting Leader Training
July 17 • 8:00PM ET
Meeting Lead

Featured Training Paths

Though not required, many of CCL's trainings will help you to feel more prepared for lobby day.

Working with Congress

4 Trainings

These trainings will help you strategize, plan and execute a successful lobby meeting and build a great relationship with your Member of Congress and their staff.

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Preparing for Lobby Days

6 Trainings

CCL's first level of political will is lobbying, as nothing is more impactful than constituents meeting frequently and building strong relationships with their member of Congress and staff.

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Effective Climate Communications

3 Trainings

Communication skills are essential to having productive conversations with all different kinds of people about climate solutions.

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Communicating Across the Aisle

2 Trainings

How to reach out, listen, and connect on climate.

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Additional Materials

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Member of Congress Bios

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Meeting Minutes (Printed Notes Form)

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Meeting Minutes (Online Form)

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Business Cards

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Thank You Cards

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Lobbying Discussion

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Mike Kelly
Daniel Palken made a very provocative and powerful statement in his session ...
Alex Messinger
In the past we've heard that the analyses of the impact of permitting reform are ...
Sandy Spears
Do we import 75% of our goods and all those goods are from less carbon efficient ...
Sandy Spears
a)I'm looking at the Comparison of Modeled Annual Average Capacity Additions ...
Alaina Coppa
Cross-posting: We've got a brand new Primary Asks page that breaks down each of ...
Sandy Spears
This piece from yesterday supports our primary ask. The author is an economics ...
Cynthia Kirsch
Hello Dana and Jenn– First, thank you for the wonderful presentations ...
Jack Bouer
If you want more background on the 2 programs whose appropriations CCL is ...
Robin Paone
In general, my MOCs prefer to keep existing electricity producers in place (no ...
Michelle Hamilton
@Dana Nuccitelli during the FOFA Training on the Senate version, the rebuttal ...