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 | A Blueprint for Legislative Action
Building off its 2007 report Call for Action (see link below), the United States Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP, issued a new Blueprint for Legislative Action in January 2009. This report is intended to serve as blueprint for federal policymakers as they seek to shape federal legislation that addresses climate change during the 111th Congress. USCAP is a diverse coalition of major corporations and environmental organizations that is "committed to a pathway that will slow, stop and reverse the growth of U.S. emissions while expanding the U.S. economy." |
| A Call for Action: Consensus Principles and Recommendations from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership: A Business and NGO Partnership
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) (www.us-cap.org) is an expanding alliance of major businesses and leading climate and environmental groups that have come together to call on the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Members of the Partnership believe that the challenge of climate change will create more opportunities than risks for the U.S. economy and will result in new innovation, increased U.S. competitiveness, and an opportunity for our country to assert world leadershio, as well as reduced reliance on imported energy sources. |
| Aviation and the Environment: A Primer for North American Stakeholders (Pew Center, Mar '08)
This presentation by the Director of Policy Analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change provides an overview of the issues surrounding climate change and global warming, legislative action early in the 110th Congress, and the possible impacts of climate change on aviation. |
| Green from Green: Rising Energy Costs May be Good News for 'Clean Tech' Firms -- and Their Investors, Published: August 06, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton
If there's a major uncertainty about clean tech, it's not whether the markets will materialize, but rather it's government regulation. New kinds of fuel and new forms of electricity generation often depend on government support during development and will continue to do so during their early stages of commercialization. But the need for subsidies would disappear if lawmakers in the United States and other countries imposed some sort of carbon tax or capped emissions and created tradable emissions permits (a so-called cap-and-trade system). Either step would make clean technologies cost-competitive with conventional fuels such as oil and coal, according to this report. |
| Mitigation of Climate Change
In its third volume on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents an analysis of costs, policies and technologies that could be used to limit and/or prevent emissions of greenhouse gases. The report also explores the relationship between sustainable development and climate change mitigation. |
| National Security Risks from Climate Change
Recently, respected voices in the U.S. national security
community-general officers, CIA analysts, high-level Pentagon
officials-have warned that global climate change threatens American
security. |
| The Economic Costs of a Market-Based Climate Policy (June 2008)
Effort to develop a mandatory climate policy is accelerating and it seems likely that a national market-based strategy for dealing with climate change is on the near term horizon. Key provisions are likely to include a cap on selected greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, an institutional framework for creating a nationwide emissions permit market, an integration of abatement opportunities from external domestic and international sources, and recognition of a broad range of features designed to soften economic impacts or promote economic efficiency. |
| The Offset Quality Initiative
"The Offset Quality Initiative is a collaborative and consensus-based voluntary effort to pool the collective experience, resources and expertise of its member organizations regarding greenhouse gas reduction projects, or offsets. The OQI believes that market-based solutions to environmental problems are a necessary and integral part of addressing global climate change. |
| U.S. Climate Change Policy and Actions
The United States Federal government has established a comprehensive policy to address climate change. This policy has three basic objectives: (1) Slowing the growth of emissions; (2) Strengthening science, technology and institutions and (3) Enhancing international cooperation. The Federal government is implementing this policy through voluntary and incentive-based programs and has established major government-wide programs to advance climate technologies and improve climate science. |
| Voluntary EPA Programs' Ability to Reduce Emissions 'Limited' (Article)
Voluntary U.S Environmental Protection Agency programs aimed at cutting greenhouse gases have "limited potential," according to its oversight arm. Problematic reporting and collection systems mean the programs' accomplishments could be based on unreliable data. The EPA Office of Inspector General (OIR) found the 11 programs it analyzed could, at best, reduce less than 20 percent of the projected 2010 greenhouse gas emissions (non-CO2) for their industry sectors. |
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