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Helping Low Income Energy Consumers
A Short Guide to Setting Up a City-Scale Retrofit Program
From the Introduction:
“The seemingly insurmountable problems of climate
change, poverty, and a nation dependent on dirty or foreign
sources of energy are among the most serious challenges
facing our country. But like all challenges, these
present an opportunity—the opportunity to address all
three problems at once—by building a domestic ener ...
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Stacy Ho (Green For All) and Satya Rhodes-Conway(Center on Wisconsin Strategy)
Center on Wisconsin Strategy (undated)
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Aligning Utility Incentives with Investment in Energy Efficiency
This report addresses the policy dilemma of regulating utilities to permit them to generate profits while also encouraging them to cooperate with energy conservation efforts that reduce the amount of energy they sell. Aligning the financial incentives of utilities with the delivery of cost-effective energy efficiency supports the key role utilities ...
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U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: November 2007For Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Bringing Residential Energy Efficiency to Scale
From the Introduction: "For more than thirty years, state energy officials have played a leading role in developing and implementing energy efficiency retrofit programs in residential buildings. The experience from these programs, such as the Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income families, is an important resource for the Obama admini ...
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The Energy Programs Consortium
The Energy Programs Consortiium, Washington DC, August 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Cap and Trade Can Fight Global Warming Effectively While Also Protecting Consumers
This short briefing paper explains how the recycling of cap-and-trade revenues can minimize the economic burden of such a program on lower and middle income households while delivering substantial environmental benefits.
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Chad Stone, Hannah Shaw, and Sharon Parrott
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Chicago Climate Action Plan
"CNT [Center for Neighborhood Technology] researchers conducted GHG emissions inventories for Chicago and
the metro region for the years 2000 and 2005, assessing the impacts of
the 8.4 million people who live in the region and the commerce
conducted here. To understand the scale of action necessary to address
GHG emissions in Chicago, CNT forec ...
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chicago, IL: Center for Neighborhood Technology. 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For the Public
Clean Energy Corps: Jobs, Service, and Equal Opportunity in America’s Clean Energy Economy
from the one-page summary:
"More than ever, Americans are ready for change. And, though these are not easy times, the country is filled with hope that, working side by side, we can create that change. The Clean Energy Corps is a proposal to bring Americans together to create 600,000 quality jobs, retrofit and upgrade 15 million buildings, a ...
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Walsh, Jason, with Lisbeth Shepherd, Dean Baker, Joel Rogers, Benjamin Goldstein and Bracken Hendricks
Washington, DC: Green for All, for the Clean Energy Corps Working Group. 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy
From the MIT Press Website:
"The United States, once a world leader in
addressing international environmental challenges, became a vigorous
opponent of action on climate change over the past two decades,
repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary actions
to meet a growing global threat. Why has the United States ...
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David M. Driesen (Ed.)
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists
Environmental Justice and the Green Economy: A Vision Statement and Case Studies for Just and Sustai...
This report (available for download as PDF documents in both English
and Spanish) highlights grassroots environmental justice successes that are creating the vision for a just and sustainable economy.
The publication includes case studies from
low income communities and communities of color in Los Angeles, Navajo Nation,
Harlan County ...
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Working Group of We Act for Environmenta. Justice
We Act for Environmental Justice, Harlem, NY, March 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Green Jobs/Green Homes New York: Expanding Home Energy Efficiency and Creating Good Jobs in a Clean ...
According to the introduction, this document offers “a policy roadmap for New York State to achieve mass-scale energy-efficiency improvements—or retrofits—of 1 million housing units over the next five years.” It discusses carbon emission impacts, job creation, energy savings and financing.
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Emmaia Gelman, Center for Working Families
Center for American Progress, May 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the Unit...
From the Conclusion: "Probably the single most fundamental policy challenge for the next generation is to build a clean-energy economy and defeat the threat of global cli-mate change. The overarching strategies for achiev-ing this aim are clear: to make massive investments every year in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and to establish li ...
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Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the Unit...
From the website: This report finds that investments in a clean energy economy can significantly drive down the unemployment rate and provide job opportunities to Americans across all skill and education levels. Through increased employment and lower energy bills and transportation costs, the standard of living for low-income people in particular w ...
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Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Green Well Fair Three economies for social justice
Summary
"How can we forge a fairer and more equal society to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century? Why do fairness and equality matter when it comes to tackling climate change and the global financial crisis?
"This short paper aims to provoke fresh thinking and debate about the policies we shall need for the future. It opens ...
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Coote, Anna, and Jane Franklin
London, UK: New Economics Foundation. February, 2009.
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor the Public
Keeping the Government Whole: The Impact of a Cap-and-Dividend Policy for Curbing Global Warming on ...
"When the United States puts a cap on carbon emissions as part of the effort to address the problem of global climate change, this will increase the prices of fossil fuels, significantly impacting not only consumers but also local, state, and federal governments. Consumers can be “made whole,” in the sense that whatever amount the public pays in ...
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Boyce, James, and Matthew Riddle
Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst . Working paper series # 188: November 2008
Objectives: Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Large-Scale Residential Energy Efficiency Programs Based on CFLs
"The World Bank Group and its Energy Sector Management Assitance Progamme
(ESMAP) have produced a toolkit for efficient lighting programmes, based on
compact fluorescent lamps, that compiles and shares operational (design,
financing and implementation) elements, documents, lessons learned, results and
other relevant data."
"The Toolk ...
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Bipulendu Narayan Singh, Samira Elkhamlichi, Abhishek Bhaskar, Xiaoyu Shi, and Isabel Lavadenz Paccieri
The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA, December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,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
Older People and Climate Change: the Case for Better Engagement New!
This report presents three reasons for better engagement of older people on climate
change issues in particular, and environmental issues in general.
Because an ageing population will have a broad set of socio-economic and
environmental impacts, it is imperative that policies tackle climate change while simultaneously addressing the ne ...
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Gary Haq, Dave Brown and Sarah Hards
Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Repowering Communities Case Study - Vermont
This study of Vermont, the second smallest state in the US by population and
the fifth smallest by area, is an interesting look at what can be achieved when a state decides to change its energy efficiency policies.
Vermont has no coal, oil or gas of its own
and has to spend $2bn a year importing energy sources. Approximately
one t ...
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Prashant Vaze
Climate Answers, July 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Tackling Climate Change, Reducing Poverty: The first report of the Roundtable on Climate Change and ...
"At a time of rising unemployment and economic insecurity, some
people argue that we cannot afford the 'luxury' of protecting the
environment. But this report from a new coalition of the UK's leading
environmental and social justice groups argues that tackling climate
change actually offers a huge opportunity for boosting the economy and
reduc ...
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Johnson, Victoria, Andrew Simms and Clare Cochrane, with contributions from members of the Roundtable on Climate Change and Poverty in the UK.
London, UK: New Economcis Foundation. 12 January, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor the Public
The Case for Green Fiscal Reform: Final Report of the UK Green Fiscal Commission
This report summarizes the findings and conclusions of the work of the Green Fiscal Commission. Key findings are shown below. Detailed and useful discussions accompany each finding.
Environmental taxes work
Environmental taxes are efficient
Environmental taxes can raise stable revenues
The public can be won round to green fi ...
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Paul Elkins
Green Fiscal Commission, London, UK, October 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy: How the Economic Stimulus Program and New Legisl...
From the website: “This paper examines these broader economic considerations—jobs, incomes, and economic growth—through the lens of two government initiatives this year by the Obama administration and Congress. The first is the set of clean-energy provisions incorporated within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, initiated by the Obama admi ...
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Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Center for American Progress, June 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
The Estimated Costs to Households From the Cap-and-Trade Provisions of H.R. 2454 (June 19, 2009)
Analysis of the Gross and Net income impacts of the US House Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation as presented to the House for debate and a vote. The Report opens with a transmittal letter and concludes with tabular data on the average costs and costs per income quintile.
Average Net costs to households, after transfers back to househol ...
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Washington, DC: U.S. Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2009
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