Subject: WJC call about cci/climate issues
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: Bruce Lindsey <[email-masked]>, Laura Graham <[email-masked]>, Doug Band - PC <[email-masked]>, Justin Cooper - PC <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Hannah Richert - PC <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:05:04 -0400

WJC called today around 5:30pm and said Ira called him to say bloomberg is messing up the c40 and a lot of the staff are leaving and did we know that. I said yes a lot of the CCI staff have expressed unhappiness and some have been or are being hired back partially or fully to CF. 

He asked me to call and speak with ira. 

He also asked us to send a utilities report to Ira and Scott Henderson at CCI. 

He also said he's worried about the pensions commitment and not having real projects to announce at CGI america. I said we are concerned too and explained cf/cci/cgi discussions with deutsche bank, tom steyer, kkr, etc. He said ira suggested we at CF or CCI just create a fund and do the investing for the aflcio. I explained aflcio doesn't have the money, the States do, and that if we tried to do it in-house there might be some complexity around us running a fund. And that also would entail hiring a bunch of finance folks. He said ira told him the CCI finance guy had resigned. I said he is still working and actually was a part of our kkr call today and always has been a part of our pensions discussions. He said to call him in addition to ira to get more movement on the pension stuff. 

He also was concerned about the solar panels in little rock and said they should be responsible for more of the energy for the center. 

He also asked about the islands work and said ira said he could get mala and swedish postcode to fund it and why are we trying to push swedish money into US Cities. I said ira's guy says undp could fund islands work so we don't need swedish money for it and swedish money could continue to be applied to Cities, not just in US but also international. I got the sense that WJC thinks we are opposed to the islands work - I told him that what we have heard so far seems interesting but clearly something is going on between ira and his islands staffer. 

Overall he said to speak with ira and involve him more in the pensions work

He also mentioned speaking with governors to get projects that need money (from pensions) - I said we'd reach out to the dga folks

Hope this helps and I'm happy to take any steps as needed. I sent the report to ira/scott and am speaking with Ira tomorrow morning at 9:30am ET if anyone is able to join. I'll also speak with folks working on pensions and push more for something tangible for WJC to say about it at CGI america.