Founded in 2017 by Ted Halstead, the CLC is a non-profit organization (501(c)3) which recognizes a carbon fee / dividends system as the most efficient way of gaining popular support for engaging nations on a successful carbon-reduction path. Its flaghisp publication 'The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends" was co-authored by James A. Baker, III, Martin Feldstein, Ted Halstead, N. Gregory Mankiw, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., George P. Shultz, Thomas Stephenson and Rob Walton. Its corporate founding members are General Motors, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, P&G, Schneider Electric, AT&T, Pespsico, Allianz, Santander, MetLife, AECOM Technology Corporation and Microsoft. Strategic partners include: republicEn, Evangelical Environmental Network, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, the Citizen Climate Lobby and the Atlantic Council