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A Blueprint for Legislative Action
"The United States faces an urgent need to transform our nation’s economy, make the country more energy secure, and take meaningful action to slow, stop, and reverse GHG emissions to address climate change.The economic, energy, and global warming realities facing the nation are characterized by a detrimental dependence on foreign oil, economic in ...
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USCAP membership
Washington, DC: United States Climate Action Partnership. January, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities
Abstract
"More than half of the global population live in cities, which are major concentrations of
vulnerability to climate change. Cities are also major emitters of greenhouse gasses. Consequently they are key to mitigating global climate change and reducing the impacts of climate change on people and infrastructure. This role is being in ...
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Dawson, R. J., Hall, J. W., Barr, S. L., Batty, M., Bristow, A. L., Carney, S., Dagoumas, A., Evans, S., Ford, A., Harwatt, H.,Köhler, J., Tight, M. R., Walsh, C. L. and Zanni, A. M.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK:Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, U. of Newcastle. Tyndall Working Paper 129, February 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Realistic Policy on International Carbon Offsets
From the Summary: "As the United States designs its strategy for regulating emissions of greenhouse gases, two central issues have emerged. One is how to limit the cost of compliance while still maintaining environmental integrity. The other is how to “engage” developing countries in serious efforts to limit emissions. Industry and economists ar ...
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Michael W. Wara and David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford, CA, April 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Accelerated Climate Technology Innovation Initiative (ACT II): A New Distributed Strategy to Reform ...
This paper proposes a new initiative to promote R&D for U.S. green infrastructure development through a "distributed innovation" model.From the Executive Summary:"The current research, development and deployment (RD&D) system8 in the energy sector has produced many important and useful technologies over the years. However, this system is simply not ...
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Clean Energy Group, Meridian Institute
Montpelier, VT: November 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
After briefly summarizing the expected physical impacts of climate change, this paper provides a framework that businesses can use to determine their susceptibility to adverse financial effects. It considers upstream (supplier) and downstream (consumer) factors, and not only the internal operations of the firm. Three case studies of firms that pe ...
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Frances G. Sussman and J. Randall Freed
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
This is another policy brief from the National Council of The National Academies.
From the brief: "Much of the nation's experience to date in managing and protecting its people,
resources, and infrastructure is based on the historic record of climate
variability during a period of relatively stable climate. This report from the
Ameri ...
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Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
The National Council of the National Academies, March 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
An outline of the case for a ‘green’ stimulus
Executive Summary
"• There is a growing consensus among policy-makers around the world
that the great risks arising from climate change brought about by human
activities require strong cuts in emissions and that strong action is
urgently needed. Nevertheless, the global
slowdown in economic growth has raised the question, might it be be ...
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Bowen, Alex, Sam Fankhauser, Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis
London, UK: London School of Economics. February, 2009.
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor the Public
Basic Information from the EPA
This link will take you to a page on the EPA website that has posted four two-page fact sheets
on climate change based on recent scientific data and findings. These documents
may be useful to state and local governments looking for public outreach
materials on climate change. The four new fact sheets are:
Climate
Change Sc ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C, USA, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study
From the Introduction: "This study addresses a wide array of scientific, economic and
technological issues related to the use of forest biomass for generating energy in Massachusetts. The study team, assembled and directed by the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, was composed of experts in forest ecosystems management and
policy; natur ...
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Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences,
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet, MA, USA,
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Blueprint for Legislative Action
USCAP, the author/publisher, is a coalition of US corporations and four major environmental organizations, Environmental Defense, Nature Conservancy, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the World Resources Institute. The group only issues consensus documents, and this is the 2009 legislative priority list.
The Introduction:
"The U ...
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U.S. Climate Action Partnership
Washington, DC: U.S. Climate Action Partnership, January, 2009.
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Building a Green Economy
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman provides a review of climate change economics and then discusses the processes of - and logic for -building a green conomy in the United States now, while facing 10% unemployment. This article from the New York Times Magazine is accompanied by readers' comments which contain many other arguments, pro and ...
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Krugman, Paul
New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 5, 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
California Climate Risk and Response
While a lot has been written about California's efforts to address climate change and potential economic gains, there has been limited economic analysis of the state's climate risk. This report addresses the impact of climate change if the state continues business-as-usual economic activity and the costs of the adaptation needed to cope with unavoi ...
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Kahrl, Fredrich, and David Roland-Holst
Berkeley, CA: U. of California Center For Energy, Resources, And Economic Sustainability. Research Paper No. 08102801: November 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating ProposalsFor the Public
California Farm Water Success Stories
"This report analyzes successful examples of sustainable water policies and practices to demonstrate how innovative growers and irrigation districts are already beginning to move California toward more equitable and efficient water management use. These practices are making a differendce and there are steps, both in policy and on-the-ground, tha ...
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Juliet Christian-Smith, Lucy Allen, Michael J. Cohen, Peter Schulte, Courtney Smith, and Peter H. Gleick
Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, USA, March 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Clean Energy Investment: Written Testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Energy & Natural...
This 2007 testimony to the Senate describes investment mechanisms for green technology and makes policy recommendations.From the Introduction:"This paper presents a brief look at each class of investment in new energy, ranging from venture capital and private equity, to project finance, to activity on the public stock markets. Along the way, it see ...
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Michael Liebreich
New Energy Finance, London, UK: 7 March 2007
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change
"To inform the climate change dialogue, the Pew Center on Global Climate
Change and the Pew Center on the States have developed a series of
brief reports entitled Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change.
"These reports provide a reliable and understandable introduction to
climate change. They cover clima ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries
Climate Change and Insurance: Integrative Principles and Regulatory Risks
From the Abstract: “In medicine, an iatrogenic risk is a risk that arises from the medical treatment itself, such as side effects of surgery or drugs. The same phenomenon arises in the process of regulatory and legislative actions intended to facilitate mitigating and financing of catastrophic risks. Unanticipated regulatory or legislative fiats c ...
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Paul R. Kleindorfer
Social Science Research Network, New York, INSEAD Working Paper No. 2009/43/TOM/INSEAD, August 24, 2009.
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Change and Risk Management Challenges for Insurance, Adaptation, and Loss Estimation
Executive Summary
"Adapting to climate change will not only require responding to the physical effects of global warming, but will also require adapting the way we conceptualize, measure, and manage risks. Climate change is creating new risks, altering the risks we already face, and also, importantly, impacting the interdependencies between ...
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Kousky, Carolyn, and Roger M. Cooke
Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. Discussion Paper 09-03. February, 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists
Climate change – a business revolution? How tackling climate change could create or destroy compan...
"This study was designed to test the hypothesis that a move to a low
carbon economy could be revolutionary for a number of mainstream
industry sectors and therefore should be carefully managed.
"We
set out to quantify the level of opportunity and risk available to
companies in different sectors depending on their situation and level
of prep ...
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The Carbon Trust and McKinsey & Company
London, UK: Carbon Trust. 22 September 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor the Public
Climate Change, Forests and Federalism: Seeing the Treaty for the Trees
From the Abstract:
"Despite numerous attempts over the past two decades – including most recently at the Copenhagen climate discussions in late 2009 – international forest and climate negotiations have failed to produce a legally binding treaty addressing global forest management activities. This failure is due in large part to a lack of U ...
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Blake Hudson
University of Colorado Law Review, Forthcoming, May 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Change: A Regional Perspective
According to the authors, the purpose of this document is to contribute to the ongoing discussion on climate change vis-a-vis available evidence on the possible channels of transmission of the econnomic impact of climate change and the results of the latest session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli ...
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Inter-American Development Bank
United Nations, Santiago, Chile, February 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
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