Energy & Climate Documents

US/National

American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security (Worldwatch, 2006)

American Energy Vision Statement (Center for American Progress, 2006)

National Survey of Public Attitudes About Climate Change (Ayres, McHenry & Associates, Feb/May 2006) [PDF, 4 pages]

Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: A Report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (Union of Concerned Scientists, October, 2006) [PDF, 52 pages]

Costs of Biofuels. (Chemical and Engineering News, December 17, 2007) [PDF, 7 pages]

Stablizing Climate, from Plan B.20 Rescuing a Planet Under Stress, Lester Brown (Earth Policy Institute, 2006) [PDF, 22 pages]

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (August 8, 2005) [PDF, 551 pages]

Jeffords-Boxer Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, Senate Bill S.3698, submitted to (July 20, 2006) [PDF, 70 pages]

Waxman Safe Climate Act of 2006, H.R. 5242 (June 20, 2006) [PDF, 20 pages]

Community Development Through Climate Solutions: Los Angeles and Beyond (Global Green, 2006) [PDF, 21 pages]

On the Road to Energy Security: Implementing a Comprehensive Energy Strategy, A Status Report (DOE, 2005)

Common Sense: Making the Transition to a Sustainable Energy Economy, Joel Stromberg (American Solar Energy Society, May 2005) [PDF, 40 pages]

Addressing the Climate Challenge in the 21st Century: International Climate Change Option, Ned Helme (Center for Clean Air Policy, May 2005) [PDF, 15 pages]

Challenge and Opportunity: Charting a New Energy Future (Energy Future Coalition) [PDF, 129 pages]

USEPA Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks:1990-1999

USEPA Climate Change Information Site
Includes information on impacts of climate change on our states and cities

The national energy policy, testimony to House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs by George Sterzinger, Renewable Energy Policy Project (June 17, 2002) [PDF]

Confronting Climate Change: Averting a Global Environmental Crisis (Globa Green USA, 2002) [PDF, 4 pages]

National Energy Policy, Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group (White House, May 2001)

Clean Energy Blueprint: A Smarter National Energy Policy for Today and the Future (Union of Concerned Scientists, October 2001) [PDF, 52 pages]

The Low Carbon Diet: A Consumer's Guide to Fight Global Warming (Environmental Defense) [PDF, 7 pages]

 

International

Commission on Sustainable Development, 14th Session - Energy & Climate (May 1-12, 2006) [PDF]

No Energy Security Without Climate Security, Briefing paper for G8 meeting, World Wildlife Fund (July 2006) [PDF]

Abuja Declaration: Resolution of FOEI International Conference on Climate Change (Friends of the Earth International, September 28-29, 2006)

How the World Bank's Energy Framework Sells the Climate and Poor People Short (Friends of the Earth International, September 2006) [ PDF, 36 pages]

Trends in Sustainable Development: Energy, Industrial Development, Atmosphere & Climate Change, (United Nations, 2005) [PDF]

Promotion of New and Renewable Sources of Energy, Including the Culmination of the World Solar Programme 1996-2005, Report of Secretary General (UN General Assembly, July 25, 2005) [PDF]

Energy Challenge for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, (UN Energy, 2005) [PDF]

Power Failure: How the World Bank is Failing to Adequately Finance Renewable Energy for Development (Friends of the Earth, October 2005) [PDF, 20 pages]

Energy Indicators for Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies, (International Atomic Energy Agency, 2005) [PDF]

Bonn Declaration on Renewable Energy, International Conference for Renewable Energies (June 4, 2004) [PDF]

International Action Programme, International Conference for Renewable Energies (June 4, 2004) [PDF]

Framework for Action on Energy for World Summit on Sustainable Development, (WEHAB Working Group, August 2002) [PDF]

Commission on Sustainable Development, 9th Session - Energy(April 30-May 2, 2001)

Commission on Sustainable Development, 9th Session - Atmosphere (April 30-May 2, 2001)

Relevant Agenda 21 Chapters (from 1992 Earth Summit):