Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow ( CFACT; German " citizens' initiative for a constructive future" ) is a US-based non-governmental organization with the CFACT Europe has a Founded in 2004, daughter organization in Europe with headquarters in Jena.

Self-understanding

The organization claims to be trying to develop market-based solutions to environmental problems. She explains itself due to this liberal economic approach to alternative to Greenpeace and other environmental groups. The organization is counted among the so-called " climate skeptics " who doubt the human contribution to the global warming and its consequences.

According to the tax return CFACT has a donation -based revenue of about $ 2.5 million per year, which go back completely on private donations. CFACT stresses that he has never taken government funds. The website and news outlet ClimateDepot.com belongs to CFACT and operated by Marc Morano.

Criticism of sources of funds

CFACT is in environmental circles strongly criticized because it will be funded by donations of U.S. lobby groups and think tanks and represented for example by former employees of the coal industry in advisory boards. From 1998 to 2007 CFACT received about $ 600,000 from oil company ExxonMobil in total. In 2010, CFACT received about 1,280,753 U.S. dollars, about 45 % of its budget, from the donor 's Trust, an organization that private donations, such as a connected with Koch Industries Foundation, anonymously to organizations and projects goes further.

CFACT Europe and EIKE

CFACT Europe is organized as a registered association based in Jena, which is funded from private donations. Director has also launched the CDU local politician Holger Thuss organization is the Austrian Günther Fehlinger. Holger Thuss is also Chairman of the European Institute for Climate and Energy Association ( EIKE ), an identical in structure and objectives skeptical climate association. Both organizations share a PO Box address in Jena.