The National Environmental Trust (NET) was established in 1994 to provide public education campaign expertise and communications services on national environmental issues. Currently, NET is conducting full-scale campaigns on global warming, clean air, energy, national forests, marine conservation, genetically engineered foods and children's environmental health.

NET has received funding from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation in support of its work on global warming. NET's Global Warming Education Campaign is designed to demonstrate to the public, press and policy-makers that a strong international agreement on global warming can mitigate climate change while improving economic competitiveness and standards of living in this country. Prior to the 1997 Kyoto negotiations, the NET campaign helped generate extensive media and grassroots interest in the climate-change issue. This approach widened the debate about an international climate-change agreement far beyond the confines of Washington, D.C. and helped lead to the Kyoto Protocol, where the U.S. agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7% below its 1990 levels.

The goal of NET's Global Warming Campaign is to keep the issue of global warming alive at this critical juncture so that it receives the attention it deserves from policy-makers. NET will seek to keep global warming in the news, using the international process to increase pressure for domestic cuts in global warming pollution.

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