Climate Change Policy & Planning:  Reports

This page lists some reports of significance for clean energy policies to reduce global warming.  Additional information is available at the following MTC web pages:

• Climate Change Action Plans & Links
• Climate Change Fact Sheet

General Climate Change Reports

• April 6, 2007 -- Working Group II Contribution to the
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report -- Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability -- Summary for Policymakers (23-page pdf)
• February 2, 2007 -- Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policymakers, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • See also www.ipcc.ch/
• October 2006 -- Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: A report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), Union of Concerned Scientists
  • www.northeastclimateimpacts.org
• October 2006 -- The Economics of Climate Change, an independent Review commissioned by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Nicholas Stern
• November 2005 -- Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (4 MB pdf with low-res pictures)
• October 2003 -- An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (posted 8/06)

Studies of Climate Change Options & Technologies

• May 2006 -- Generation Options for New York State in a Carbon Constrained World, by Michael Miller, Electric Power Research Institute, presentation to NYISO Environmental Advisory Committee (selected slides, pdf)
• May 2006 -- The Great Global Experiment, Harvard Magazine
• January 2006 -- Our Energy Challenge: Securing clean, affordable energy for the long term, UK Dept of Trade & Industry
• December 2005 -- Mighty Mice, Amory Lovins, Nuclear Engineering International
• December 10, 2005 -- The Greening of GE and articles about climate change, The Economist
• December 2005 -- Building Integrated CHP for Cost-Effective Carbon Mitigation: 2005 Status and Prospects for Canada ... and the US, World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE)
• August 2004 -- CHP Market Potential for Opportunity Fuels, by Resource Dynamics Corp. for DOE

• Spring 2004 -- A Blueprint For Action: Policy Options to Reduce Massachusetts' Contribution to Global Warming, MASSPIRG, Clean Water Fund (pdf)
• September 2000 -- The Power to Insure: Reducing Insurance Claims with New Electricity Options, Joel Gordes for NESEA

Studies of Emission Reduction Potential

• Reports by Stephen Conners et al, MIT Lab for Energy & Environment:
  • 2004 -- National Assessment of Emissions Reduction of Photovoltaic (PV) Power Systems, Prepared for US EPA by Conners, et. al., MIT (3 files):
    • Main Report (80 pages, 7.5 MB pdf)
    • Appendices A through B-VII (12 MB pdf)
    • Appendices B-VIII through end (6 MB pdf)
  • April 2004 -- Avoided Emissions from Renewables in New England: Where and When Matters (pdf)
  • March 2004 -- Future Electricity Supplies: Redefining Efficiency from a Systems Perspective (pdf)
• February 2003 -- Electric Sector Emissions Displaced due to Renewable Energy Projects in New England, La Capra Associates report to MTC (doc file)

Articles

• Spring 2006 -- The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21st Century Energy Challenges, J. Holdren, MIT Innovations

Other Information

• CHP Emission Information, Northeast CHP Application Center

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