The Mission
High Schoolers for Carbon Dividends (HS4CD) is a student-led campaign created to amplify youth leadership on climate change, advance the carbon dividends solution, and open the door to a bipartisan environmental breakthrough.
Problem: Climate Change
The challenge of a generation.
Solution: Carbon Dividends
Charge companies a fee for their emissions & return the money to the American people.
A strategy endorsed by the largest statement of economists in US history.
An Explanatory TED Talk (1.5+ million views)
There's no planet B.
That’s why we shouldn’t settle for climate strategy B.
Policies like carbon pricing and dividends yield “as much consensus among economists as the reality of climate change does among scientists.”
-N. Gregory Mankiw, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, President G. W. Bush
“We cannot solve climate change without effective carbon pricing.”
-Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, President Biden
Carbon pricing is a “a no-regrets policy” that “would create economy-wide incentives for energy efficiency and lower-carbon energy.”
— Kevin Hassett, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, President Trump
“This is not the only thing we need to do to address climate change, but it is the most obvious, the most efficient, and quantitatively most important.”
— Jason Furman, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, President Obama
We are building a national network of student leaders
To support this vital climate solution
Join student leaders from across the country!
Chancey Stefanos ⠂Dallas, TX ⠂Class Secretary
Clifton Goode ⠂Concord, NH ⠂Student Admissions Officer
George Wu ⠂West Palm Beach, FL ⠂Editor-in-Chief of the Newspaper
Gwen Mascha ⠂Gates Mills, OH ⠂Green Leadership Council Founding Member
John Barnes ⠂Arlington, VA ⠂Future Business Leaders of America Vice President
Louise Bennett ⠂Punxsutawney, PA ⠂Secretary of the Student Council
Rahul Nair ⠂Parsippany, NJ ⠂Student Government Representative
Sadie Cook ⠂Seattle, WA ⠂Student Body President
Shiva Rajbhandari ⠂Boise, ID ⠂Founder of North Jr. High Green Club
Stephan Oliveira ⠂Manhattan Beach, CA ⠂GSA President
Vivian Li ⠂Silver Spring, MD ⠂Business Team VP
William Diep ⠂Brooklyn, NY ⠂Secretary General of Model UN