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The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit advocacy organization that was established in 1998. Its Board of Directors includes Kenneth Arrow and Klaus Töpfer. [1] It is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which "is working to create a policy environment that leads to the adoption of mandatory federal limits on emissions that contribute to global warming."^[1] The Pew Center also receives corporate and private donations.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change does not receive any money from the corporations in the Business Environmental Leadership Council. All of their funding comes from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

In 1998 the Pew Center created the Business Environmental Leadership Council, of mainly Fortune 500 companies committed to combatting global warming.[2] Members generate over $1.5 trillion in revenue and employ more than 2.5 million people, and include General Electric, Alcoa, and DuPont.

The Pew Center argues that enough is already known about global warming to require more restrictions on the use of fossil fuels. ^[2]

1. ^ "The Trusts is working to create a policy environment that leads to the adoption of mandatory federal limits on emissions that contribute to global warming. Through our work with the Clear the Air Campaign at Pace University, we invest in targeted efforts to educate the public and engage key constituencies on the need for action, and have made substantial investments in advocacy to reduce emissions from the nation’s electric sector. Our partnership with the Energy Foundation and myriad groups throughout the nation promotes the adoption of state and regional policies that curb global warming pollution. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was launched in 1998 to advance the climate change debate through analysis, public education and a new cooperative approach with business. Working with its Business Environmental Leadership Council, a group of 41 mostly Fortune 500 companies, the center commissions highly credible scientific and policy studies by leading experts, and it uses this applied-research base to: educate and mobilize opinion leaders about the urgency of the problem; promote policy options that will achieve real emissions reductions; and encourage an improvement in international climate-change agreements." The Pew Charitable Trusts: Advancing Policy Solutions: Global warming
2. ^ Mind their own business - Terrence Scanlon, president of the Capital Research Center - Commentary in the Washington Times, August 22, 2006

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