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Resources
Following are useful reference sources and links to information pertaining to economics and climate change, grouped under the following categories:
- Economics of Climate Change
- Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Emissions Markets and Trading
- Energy Policy & Mitigation Resources
Economics of Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a number of assessment reports that include estimated economic costs and benefits associated with projected climate change impacts.
- 2007 Assessment Report
Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
- Earlier assessment reports are available from the IPCC website
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). 2003. Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a number of assessment reports that include estimated costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- 2007 Assessment Report
Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change - Earlier assement reports are available from the IPCC website
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Pew Center has published a number of reports on climate change economics , including an introduction to the economics of climate change policy.
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
The Congressional Budget Office published The Economics of Climate Change: A Primer in April 2003.
Emissions Markets and Trading
EPA's Clean Air Markets program manages various market-based regulatory programs designed to improve air quality by reducing outdoor concentrations of fine particles, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury. This Web site provides the information and tools that are necessary to participate in any of these market-based programs. The site offers related links and resources on emissions trading.
Domestic Emission Trading
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI , is a cooperative effort by Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
California Market Advisory Committee Report provides recommendations on the design of Cap and Trade system for California.
International Emisssions Trading
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Energy Policy & Mitigation Resources
Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University
The EMF (Energy Modeling Forum) was established in 1976 to provide a structured forum within which energy experts from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations could meet to study important energy and environmental issues of common interest. www.stanford.edu/group/EMF/
The Global Energy Technology Strategy Program
The program is a joint initiative between Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute and the University of Maryland. The program focuses on the role that technology can play in addressing the long-term risks of climate change. www.pnl.gov/gtsp/index.stm
Massachusetts Institute for Technology
The MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change is an interdisciplinary program focused on independent policy analysis and research on global environmental change issues. web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/
The International Energy Agency
IEA provides its Member countries with analytical work on energy and climate change. www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/index.asp and www.ieagreen.org/uk
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration site
Documents on climate change from DOE's independent statistical and analysis agency. www.eia.doe.gov