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Designing Climate Solutions

Author : Hal Harvey
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919564
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Designing Climate Solutions written by Hal Harvey and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. It’s a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. A small set of energy policies, designed and implemented well, can put us on the path to a low carbon future. Energy systems are large and complex, so energy policy must be focused and cost-effective. One-size-fits-all approaches simply won’t get the job done. Policymakers need a clear, comprehensive resource that outlines the energy policies that will have the biggest impact on our climate future, and describes how to design these policies well. Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy is the first such guide, bringing together the latest research and analysis around low carbon energy solutions. Written by Hal Harvey, CEO of the policy firm Energy Innovation, with Robbie Orvis and Jeffrey Rissman of Energy Innovation, Designing Climate Solutions is an accessible resource on lowering carbon emissions for policymakers, activists, philanthropists, and others in the climate and energy community. In Part I, the authors deliver a roadmap for understanding which countries, sectors, and sources produce the greatest amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and give readers the tools to select and design efficient policies for each of these sectors. In Part II, they break down each type of policy, from renewable portfolio standards to carbon pricing, offering key design principles and case studies where each policy has been implemented successfully. We don’t need to wait for new technologies or strategies to create a low carbon future—and we can’t afford to. Designing Climate Solutions gives professionals the tools they need to select, design, and implement the policies that can put us on the path to a livable climate future.

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program: Strategic Plan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Climate Change Technology Program: Strategic Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2002, President George W. Bush reorganized the overarching management structure that coordinates and directs U.S. climate change research and development activities. Under this new structure, climate change science and climate-related technology research programs are integrated to an extent not seen previously. The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was established to reduce the uncertainties in climate science and develop science-based resources to support decision makers. The Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) was formed to coordinate the Federal Government's portfolio of climate-related technology research and development activities, including technology deployment and adoption activities. The Strategic Plan expands on the themes presented in CCTP's Vision and Framework for Strategy and Planning. The technologies outlined in this Plan hydrogen, biorefining, clean coal, carbon sequestration, nuclear fission and fusion, advanced concepts in buildings, industry, transportation and electric energy storage and distribution, and others have the potential to transform our economy in fundamental ways that can address not just climate change, but energy security, air quality, and other pressing needs. The Plan articulates a vision of the role for advanced technologies, defines a supporting mission for the CCTP, establishes guiding principles for Federal R & D agencies to use in formulating R & D portfolios, outlines approaches to attain CCTP's strategic goals, and identifies a series of next steps toward implementation.

U. S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan

Author : U. S. Climate Program
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508499923
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book U. S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan written by U. S. Climate Program and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Strategic Plan, which details measures to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of new and advanced technologies that avoid, reduce, or capture and store greenhouse gas emissions. CCTP is the technology component of a comprehensive U.S. strategy introduced by President Bush in 2002 to combat climate change that include measures to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions through voluntary, incentive-based, and mandatory partnerships, advance climate change science, spur clean energy technology development and deployment, and promote international collaboration. "This Plan was inspired by the President's vision to harness America's strengths in innovation and technology to transform energy production and use in ways that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the long term," U.S Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman said. "This Strategic Plan is unprecedented in its scope and scale and breaks new ground with its visionary 100-year planning horizon, global perspective, multi-lateral research collaborations, and public private partnerships." The CCTP Strategic Plan organizes roughly $3 billion in federal spending for climate technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase economic growth. It provides a long-term planning context, taking into account many uncertainties, and establishes principles for formulating research and development portfolios to identify areas for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and highlights an array of technology strategies and investment criteria. This Plan complements other Administration efforts including short-term measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity, advance climate change science, and promote international cooperation through partnership including the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Methane to Markets Partnership, and the International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy. The Plan sets six complementary goals: (1) reducing emissions from energy use and infrastructure; (2) reducing emissions from energy supply; (3) capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide; (4) reducing emissions of other greenhouse gases; (5) measuring and monitoring emissions; and (6) bolstering the contributions of basic science to climate change. The Plan outlines approaches toward attaining these goals, articulates underlying technology development strategies, and identifies a series of next steps toward implementation.

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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U.S. Climate Policy and Technology

Author : Peter Schniering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Climate Policy and Technology written by Peter Schniering and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have many U.S. administrations focused so explicitly on technology in their climate policy approaches? What enabled the Bush administration to justify its vehement opposition to absolute emissions targets with a longer-term technological vision? This volume argues that the administration's strategy can only be understood by considering cultural conceptions of technology and the environment that have developed over centuries and are deeply embedded in American environmental thought. Author Peter Schniering has been working on international climate and energy policy since 2002, working as a consultant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency. This book is based on his dissertation.

Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Changing Planet

Author : Climate Change Science Program (U.S.).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Our Changing Planet written by Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Statehouse and Greenhouse

Author : Barry G. Rabe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815796358
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Statehouse and Greenhouse written by Barry G. Rabe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas of the world, including regions of the United States, have experienced a wide range of unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much climate change analysis forecasts horrors of biblical proportions, such as massive floods, habitat loss, species loss, and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts of impending disaster have helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss global climate change as, at the very worst, a minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area in the last decade. Policy inertia is not the story of this book, however. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming. The book explains why state innovation in global climate change has been relatively vigorous and why it has drawn so little attention thus far. Rabe draws larger potential lessons from this recent flurry of American experience. Statehouse and Greenhouse helps to move debate over global climate change from bombast to the realm of what is politically and technically feasible.

Climate Change Policy in the United States

Author : Dianne Rahm
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458011
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Policy in the United States written by Dianne Rahm and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of global warming and its human causes examines the international agreements regarding climate change and the U.S. response to those agreements, as well as key provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, to explain the difficulties of any subsequent treaties. Framing the scientific debate against moral, ethical, and religious considerations, the book offers potential solutions. The book includes seven maps and tables, notes, bibliography, and index.

Climate Change Technology and Policy Options

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Technology and Policy Options written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309108268
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) coordinates the efforts of 13 federal agencies to understand why climate is changing, to improve predictions about how it will change in the future, and to use that information to assess impacts on human systems and ecosystems and to better support decision making. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program is the first review of the CCSP's progress since the program was established in 2002. It lays out a method for evaluating the CCSP, and uses that method to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the entire program and to identify areas where progress has not met expectations. The committee found that the program has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, as well as in understanding the influence of human activities on these observed changes. The ability to predict future climate changes also has improved, but efforts to understand the impacts of such changes on society and analyze mitigation and adaptation strategies are still relatively immature. The program also has not met expectations in supporting decision making, studying regional impacts, and communicating with a wider group of stakeholders.

Implementing Climate and Global Change Research

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309168384
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Implementing Climate and Global Change Research written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -the Climate Change Research Initiative-whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

Author : U.S. Global Change Research Program
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521144078
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States written by U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program: Strategic Plan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War

Author : Neta C. Crawford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262371928
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War written by Neta C. Crawford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions. Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.

S. 1008, the Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book S. 1008, the Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climate Change Science

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309183359
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The warming of the Earth has been the subject of intense debate and concern for many scientists, policy-makers, and citizens for at least the past decade. Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, a new report by a committee of the National Research Council, characterizes the global warming trend over the last 100 years, and examines what may be in store for the 21st century and the extent to which warming may be attributable to human activity.