The Pew Center works with 46 mostly Fortune 100 companies. For them to be part of our Business Environmental Leadership Council, or BELC, they have to agree to four core principles. One of those is mandatory climate legislation.
Within our BELC we don't have a framework that specifies what we think that legislation should look like. We work with the companies and we vet all our policy recommendations through the companies, because we want to learn what works in those sectors and what doesn't work. We don't always agree, but we always work with them to figure out what works best in terms of policy and in terms of economics.
Another business group that the Pew Center has been very actively engaged with is the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. That's 26 companies, five major environmental groups, and within this U.S. CAP, the climate action partnership, we have developed a blueprint for climate action. You can see a lot of that in title III of the Waxman-Markey bill. We're calling for a cap-and-trade program and then complementary measures to incentivize clean technology.
We also have recommendations on cost containment provisions, such as offsets, such as banking. Many of the provisions we've recommended in the blueprint are found in title III of the Waxman-Markey bill.