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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 Plan to Revive the American Economy
With a shrinking manufacturing base, the US faces significant challenges in maintaining its status as a leading innovator, which undermines its ability to compete globally, fight global warming, and wean the nation off fossil fuels. Chapter 5 of this document deals specifically with "Manufacturing Jobs for a Green Future," but the report addresses ...
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The Economic Policy Institute
Washington, DC: The Economic Policy Institute. Based on EPI's Agenda for Shared Prosperity: August 2008
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
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
AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009
R E P O R T
together with
MINORITY AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2454]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Commerce, to whom the bill (H.R. 2454) was referred to create clean energy jobs, achieve energy
independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a
clea ...
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U.S. Congress, REPT. 111–137
Washington, DC: Congressional Printing Office, June 5, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
An Energy Future Transformed: The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) – R&D Path...
From the website: This report offers a detailed roadmap for the implementation of ARPA-E, outlining the proper start-up sequencing, staffing structure, and the right approach to risk management. The report also offers advice on balancing expectations for a "hit-the-ground-running" start-up against the specter of past government failures by establi ...
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Jane A. “Xan” Alexander
Clean Air-Cool Planet, July 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor 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
Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices
This paper models the effect of energy policy on households in the US economy.Abstract:Using an analytical general equilibrium model, we find closed form solutions for the effect of energy policy on factor prices and output prices. We calibrate the model to the US economy, and we consider a tax on carbon. By looking at expenditure and income patter ...
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Don Fullerton, Garth Heutel
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA: February 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists
“Tailoring Rule” Outlining Clean Air Act Permitting Thresholds for Facilities that Emit Greenhou...
The "Tailoring Rule" is the latest in a series of linked actions by the EPA based on the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in
Massachusetts v. EPA. In that decision, the Court stipulated
that GHGs are “pollutants” under the Clean Air Act, and ordered EPA
to make a science-based determination as to whether GHG emissions
from motor vehicles cont ...
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Van Ness Feldman, Attorneys at Law
Van Ness Feldman, Washington D.C., May 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
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
Change is in the Air: The Foundations of the Coming American Carbon Market
Despite the lack of federal action on climate change in the US, a number of American emissions reduction efforts are being launched outside the federal framework. Private actors, cities and states are each introducing initiatives designed to curb emissions growth and to pressure the federal government to act. This Climate Report examines these effo ...
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Hight, Cate, and Gustavo Silva-Chávez
Paris, FR: Caisse des Depots. Climate Report #15: 2008
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
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 AND TRADE POLICIES IN A POST-2012 WORLD
From the Forward:
“Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World is a collection of short forward-thinking articles
by leading experts on the relationship between trade and climate change policies. (It) focuses on international, regional and national policies and institutions relevant to the implementation of trade-related climate change ...
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L. Weischer, B. Simmons, H. van Asselt, F. Zelli, et al.
New York, NY: United Nations Environment Programme, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces
"As the climate science debate
is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. The
controversial issue now is the fear that overly ambitious climate initiatives
could hurt the economy. Mainstream economists emphasizing that fear have, in
effect, replaced the climate skeptics as the intellectual enablers of ina ...
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Frank Ackerman
Dollars & Sense. Nov-Dec, 2008. pp. 22-26.
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor the Public
Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability – Clarifying the Concepts and Their Interrelations
This paper aims at providing introductory information for all those who are interested in how sustainability, innovation and competitiveness interrelate, but have not yet been confronted to a greater extent with the scientific background to it. Instructive for state discussions of potential competitiveness losses associated with stronger environmen ...
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Wolff, Franziska, Katahrina Schmitt, and Christian Hochfeld
Berlin, DE: Insittute for Applioed Ecology: 2007
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor the Public
Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy
Executive Summary (Extracts)
"Unchecked climate change is poised to have wide-ranging and potentially disastrous effects over time onhumanwelfare, sensitive ecosystems, and international security. This urgent challenge demands that the United States and the world take comprehensive action to limit the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmo ...
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Independent Task Force on Climate Change Policy (co-chairs: George E. Pataki and Thomas J. Vilsack)
New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations. 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Construction Apprentice Programs: Career Training for California’s Recovery
This paper presents a strong case for creating high-quality building trades apprenticeship programs through joint labor-management collaboration and collective bargaining as a critical step in helping California (and by extension, one presumes, other states) to recover in the new green economy and to help disadvantaged populations in general. ...
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Corinne Wilson
San Diego, CA: Center on Policy Initiatives
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Core Elements of National Reports
From the Executive Summary:
"Establishing or revising reporting guidelines under the UNFCCC provides an opportunity for the international community to increase the value of the national reporting process for both national and international stakeholders. As well helping to improve the national policy-making process, the process of developing ...
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Jane Ellis, Sara Moarif, and Greg Briner
Organization for Economic and Co-Operative Development, Paris, France, June 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Economic Stimulus, Recovery, and Climate Mitigation: Policy and Program Opportunities from the State...
Key Finding
"A review of 20 state climate action plans reveals that dozens of existing federal and hundreds of existing state and local programs could be effective vehicles for economic stimulus funding that would reduce emissions, create jobs, increase energy security and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in secondary economic stimul ...
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Washington, DC: Center for Climate Strategies. White Paper Draft for Discussion. December 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Economic Stimulus: The Case for “Green” Infrastructure, Energy Security and “Green” Jobs
A very thorough examination and review of the case for green energy and the resulting creation of millions of jobs globally between now and 2050. Many charts, diagrams, pie charts, and other visual organizers to help the reader assimilate all the information, which is organized according to the following Table of Contents:
Addressing the ...
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Deutche Bank Group
Deutsche Bank Group, November, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
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