Climate Science & Policy
Credit: USFWS
Climate Policy Recommendations 2009
United States Climate Action Partnership -- A Blueprint for Legislative Action: Consensus recommendations for U.S. climate protection legislation
Congressional Budget Office
Uncertainty in Analyzing Climate Change: Policy Implications -- January 2005
Implications of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- Testimony, April 2008
Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions -- April 2007
Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions -- April 2008
The Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the United States -- April 2008
Climate CBO Honorable Jeff Bingaman Letter -- July 9, 2007
CBO Testimony -- Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- November 2007
Improving How Scientists Communicate About Climate Change -- March 2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Energy and Commerce Committee Action on Accelerating Climate Change
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1st White Paper Cap and Trade -- October 2007
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1st White Paper Cap and Trade Memo -- October 2007
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2nd White Paper Competitiveness Memo -- January 2008
John Dingell, 2nd White Paper Competitiveness -- January 2008
John Dingell, 3rd Memo, Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government -- February 2008
John Dingell, 3rd White Paper, Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government -- February 2008
John Dingell, 4th Memo, Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money -- May 2008
John Dingell, 4th White Paper, Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money -- May 2008
IPCC Materials
An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Synthesis Report -- 2007
Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 2000
The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- November 1997
An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Fourth Assessment Report -- 2007
A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 2007
Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- April 2007
USCCSP Materials
Our Changing Planet -- The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program
Our Changing Planet -- The US Climate Change Science Program for FY 2004 and 2005
Our Changing Planet -- The US Climate Change Science Program for FY 2008
U. S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.4 Abrupt Climate Change -- April 2008
Reanalysis of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for Attribution of Causes of Observed Change -- April 2008
Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production And Use in the United States -- October 2007
Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations -- July 2007
Global-Change Scenarios Their Development and Use -- July 2007
The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)Global-Change Scenarios Their Development and Use -- November 2007
Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere Steps for Understanding an Reconciling Differences -- April 2006
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Phase I -- March 2008
The U.S. Government Accountability Office
Carbon Offsets:
- The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants (Highlights)
- The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants (Full Report)
- Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option -- Highlights
- Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option -- Report
State climate action plans across the Southeast
Arkansas Governor's Commission on Global Warming
Florida's Energy and Climate Change Action Plan
North Carolina General Assembly, the Clean Smokestack Act
South Carolina's Climate Action Plan
