Climate Policy Initiative http://www.thepolicyclimate.org/ [Website] This interactive site is an overview of policy issues relevant to climate change across the world. Along with the full accompanying study, it presents three decades of evidence on emissions trends, emissions drivers, and policy activity from five key economies – Brazil, China, India, the EU, and the U.S. —which … Continue reading »
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Energy: Federal Support for Renewable and Advanced Energy Technologies
Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-514T The first report discusses GAO’s broad review of federal wind-related initiatives…The second report discusses GAO’s review of the status of DOE’s efforts to use its remaining loan and loan guarantee authorities and remaining credit subsidy appropriations to support projects under its LGP and ATVM loan program, as of January 29, 2013… … Continue reading »
At Cross-purposes: Subsidies and Climate Compatible Investment
Overseas Development Institute / by Shelagh Whitley http://bit.ly/10QDRmr [Website] …Though climate finance aims to enable climate compatible development (CCD), this paper points out that, within developing countries, subsidies to fossil fuels (alone) currently dwarf any efforts toward CCD through climate finance. For the 42 developing countries where data are available on either subsidies or climate … Continue reading »
Operating in Limits: Defining an Australian Carbon Budget
The Climate Institute http://bit.ly/156clHs [Manufacturers' Monthly] The best way Australia can ensure that it does its fair share in achieving climate change goals is to implement a long-term climate budget. This is the finding of a report released by the Climate Institute. Erwin Jackson, Deputy CEO of The Climate Institute points out that carbon laws … Continue reading »
Least Cost 100% Renewable Electricity Scenarios in the Australian National Electricity Market
[submitted to “Energy Policy” ] / by Ben Elliston, Iain MacGill and Mark Diesendorf (Univ. of New South Wales) http://bit.ly/Z4wmpq This PDF can be opened — and then printed — in Google Chrome v25, Firefox v29 and IE v8, but it cannot be successfully download and emailed; maybe that’s intentional or maybe it’s corrupt. — Chris [CleanTechnica] … Continue reading »
Managing for the Future in a Rapidly Changing Arctic: a Report to the President
Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska http://on.doi.gov/YVgaec [Alaska Public Media] Dozens of federal, state and local agencies have a say on how development happens in arctic Alaska. A report released today (Thursday, April 4th) makes the case for doing a better job coordinating the work those agencies are … Continue reading »
Bridging Decision Networks for Integrated Water and Energy Planning
Energy Strategy Reviews (published online before print: March 13, 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2013.02.003) / by Afreen Siddiqi, Arani Kajenthira, and Laura Diaz Anadon (open access article) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X13000242 [Abstract] Integrated policy and planning is needed to effectively meet the challenges of growing water and energy inter-dependencies in many regions. Joint consideration of both water and energy domains can … Continue reading »
The Limits of Liability in Promoting Safe Geologic Sequestration of CO2
Duke Environmental Law Journal (2013, v22 n1) / by David E. Adelman and Ian J. Duncan http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189&context=delpf [From a Climate Wire article by Christa Marshall, sub. req'd] The federal government should established a “two-tiered” system outlining who would be responsible in future cases of water contamination and leakage associated with the underground storage of carbon … Continue reading »
Monitoring the Climate System from Space: Progress, Pitfalls and Possibilities
Grantham Institute for Climate Change / by Dr. Helen Brindley and Jacqueline Russell http://bit.ly/11CLYUv Passive satellite sensors have provided unique observations of the Earth’s climate system since the first space-based weather observations in 1960. Satellite measurements have provided direct observational evidence that recent increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have produced the expected changes to the … Continue reading »
Oil Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: Background and Selected Environmental Issues
Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42611.pdf …Although some groups have opposed previous oil pipeline permits, opposition to the Keystone XL proposal has generated substantially more interest among environmental stakeholders. Pipeline opponents are not a monolithic group: some raise concerns about potential local impacts, such as oil spills or extraction impacts in Canada; some argue the pipeline would … Continue reading »
