Climate and Energy Resources
Please use the links below to jump to the different categories of recent reports:
Costs of Climate Change
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The U.S. needs a climate law in 2009 by Environmental Defense Fund
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The High Cost of Fossil Fuels by Environment North Carolina
- Powering America’s Defense: Energy and the Risks to National Security by Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research
- Climate Change in the United States: The Prohibitive Costs of Inaction by Union of Concerned Scientists
- Shaping Climate-Resilient Development by Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group
- climate risks could cost nations up to 19% of their GDP by 2030, with developing countries most vulnerable.
- Health Problems Heat Up: Climate Change and the Public's Health
- North Carolina Does Not Have a Plan for Addressing the Health Impact of Climate Change, New Report Finds Examines U.S. planning for changing health threats posed by climate change, such as heat-related sickness, respiratory infections, natural disasters, changes to the food supply, and infectious diseases carried by insects.
Creating and Protecting Jobs
- Safeguarding Natural Resources
- Naturally Green Jobs
- Green Economic Recovery Program
- Renewing America: A Blueprint For Economic Recovery 11-11-08
- America has enough clean energy potential to power the country several times over. Renewable energy such as wind and solar and energy efficiency are already saving us money and creating jobs.
- Clean Energy, Bright Future: Rebuilding America Through Green Infrastructure 1-13-09
- Green projects could create 3 million jobs; 2,800 in North Carolina.
- Bioenergy in North Carolina from the Southern Bioenergy Roadmap
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SAFEGUARDING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES FROM GLOBAL WARMING: Creating Green Jobs for America
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The 2006 Economic Benefits of Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife Watching in NC by North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
- How to Revitalize America's Middle Class with the Clean Energy Economy by Blue Green Alliance
- Clean-Energy Investments Create Jobs in North Carolina by Political Economy Research Institute & Center for American Progress
- North Carolina's Road to Energy Independence: Building on Job Growth in Renewable Energy Component Manufacturing by the Blue Green Alliance
- Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy by Union of Concerned Scienctists
- Energy Efficiency in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009: Impacts of Current Provisions and Opportunities to Enhance the Legislation
- North Carolina Specific: Energy Efficiency in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009: Impacts of Current Provisions and Opportunities to Enhance the Legislation
- Clean Energy & Climate Policies Lead to Economic Growth in the US by Center for Energy, Resources, & Economic Sustainabilit
- New analysis shows that adopting comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation could create up to 1.9 million jobs.
- North Carolina: Profile of the Green Economy by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
- North Carolina is clearly a national leader in energy infrastructure. Other areas of growing comparative advantage are in sustainable agriculture services, energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and water management.
- Manufacturing Climate Solutions by The Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness
- North Carolina Renewable Energy & Energy efficiency Industries Census 2009 by NC Sustainable Energy Association
- Firms employ 10,250 workers, maintain a presence in all 100 North Carolina counties and generate more than $3.5 billion in annual revenue.
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10-1-09 Clean Tech Job Trends 2009 by Clean Edge: Ron Pernick & Clint Wilder
Economic Benefits of Addressing Climate Change
- Size Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Regulation
- Cornerstones: A Foundation for North Carolina’s Future by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- Climate Change Policy as Economic Stimulus
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Opportunities for Agriculture to Offset Climate Change by The Clark Group
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Recharging America’s Economy Clean Energy Investments, Global Warming Solutions, and a Prosperous Economy The National Wildlife Federation
- The Clean Energy Economy North Carolina by The Pew Environment Group
- The Effects of Low-Carbon Policies on Net Farm Income by Center on Global Change and Climate Change Policy Partnership, Duke University; Texas A&M University
- The new adaptation marketplace by Oxfam America
- As climate change shifts agricultural patterns and alters coastlines, people globally must adapt. But within the need for adaptation lie business opportunities.
- Projected Impacts of Proposed Federal Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards on the North Carolina Economy (August 2009) Final Report to Bipartisan Policy Center by Burton English, Kim Jensen, Jamey Menard, and Daniel De La Torre Ugarte Dept of Agricultural
- The analysis looks at the economic effects of a federal Renewable Energy Standard (RES) in multiple states including North Carolina. It projects that a 25 percent RES in 2025 would increase gross receipts by an estimated $16,028 per farm in North Carolina.
Impacts of Climate Change
- Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on NC Coastal Resources
- Climate and Church
- Climate Change Impacts on Regional Air Quality Report (April 09) by EPA
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Global Warming and NORTH CAROLINA by National Wildlife Federation
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More Extreme HeatWaves: GlobalWarming’sWake Up Call (2009) National Wildlife Federation
- America's Share of the Climate Crisis: A State-By-State Carbon Footprint (May 09) Greenpeace
- Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Motion by Audubon
- Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States by United States Global Change Research Program
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Southeast Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States by US Global Change Research Program
- Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 by United Nations Environment Programme
- Close Encounters by World Wildlife Fund
- Recently discovered species face extinction due to climate change.
- Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation by International Food Policy Research Institute
- National Parks In Peril The Threats Of Climate Disruption State Fact Sheet: North Carolina & Tennessee by The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization & Natural Resources Defense Council
- 1-21-10 2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade by NASA
- 2-10-09 Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions by NOAA
Protecting Consumers
- Extending 'Climate Rebates' To Include Middle-Income Consumers
- Senate Can Strengthen Climate Legislation By Reducing Corporate Welfare and Boosting True Consumer Relief by Congressional Budget Office
- Low-Income Climate Consumer Relief: Funds Needed for State Administration by Congressional Budget Office
- Changing Climate Bill To Give More Allowances To Electric Utilities Would Likely Hurt, Not Help, Consumers by Congressional Budget Office
Renewable Energy Generation & Energy Efficiency Potential
- Yes We Can: Southern Solutions for a National RES (February 12, 2009) Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- Southern Bioenergy Roadmap (February 17, 2009) Southeast Agriculture & Forestry Energy Resources Alliance (SAFER) and the University of Florida
- Local Clean Power Local Clean Power (April 2009) by World Resources Institute, Southface & Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- Power of Efficiency (April 2009) by World Resources Institute, Southface & Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
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Saving Energy Cost-Effectively: A National Review of the Cost of Energy Saved Through Utility-Sector Energy Efficiency Programs by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- "At these costs of saved energy, energy efficiency is by far the least costly energy resource option available for utility resource portfolios. Saving a kilowatt-hour through energy efficiency improvements is easily one-third or less the cost of any new source of electricity supply, whether conventional fossil fuel or renewable energy source. In addition, the results of this research suggest that the cost of energy efficiency has remained very consistent over time."
- Energy Trends: Highlights on consumer energy usage
- Renewable energy sources are at the heart of the emerging green economy, and if consumers have any say, solar would be their carbon neutral source of choice - 37% preference. Nationwide, 27% of households use 10 or more compact fluorescent lightbulbs and about 60 percent of households use 4 or more CFLs.
- Southern Regional Economic Assessment of Climate Policy Options and Review of Economic Studies of Climate Policy
- "A report produced for the Southern Governors' Association presents economy- and region-wide opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and evaluates their projected potential financial costs or savings."
- U.S. Offshore Wind Energy: A Path Forward (October 2009) A Working Paper of the U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative
- Includes North Carolina. Using a decade of satellite data and information collected from federal meteorological buoys shows that annual offshore wind resources in the region amounted to 330 gigawatts or nearly five times the estimated energy use in nine coastal states.
- Regional Renewable Outlook: Virginia/Carolinas (November 2009) SNL Energy
- North Carolina is well ahead of neighbors South Carolina and Virginia in developing renewable-energy plants. North Carolina accounts for more than 570 megawatts of about 845 megawatts of renewable energy planned or under construction in the three states.
