Energy Sector Law and Policy
This tab includes laws and policies for avoiding or reducing climate change impacts in the energy sector, including best practices and legal and policy analysis.
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November 20, 2017
This report summarizes a workshop entitled “Taking Action on Green Resilience”at the 2017 ICLEI Canada Livable Cities Forum in Victoria, British Columbia, and provides recommendations on capacity building, research and public policies needed to advance green resilience practices. “Green Resilience” strategies are described as those that address both climate mitigation and adaptation - by simultaneously reducing GHG emissions and enhancing climate resilience. The report was produced by Green Resilience Strategies and ACT (the Adaptation to Climate Change Team) at Simon Fraser University.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Steve Winkelman , Edward Nichol, Deborah Harford
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November 15, 2017
The California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) developed this guidance document to support state agency planning and investment in the context of climate change - as directed by Executive Order B-30-15. The guidance provides state agencies with a process for determining how to integrate climate considerations into state planning and investment decisions. The guidance offers an introduction to climate risks and how to start incorporating them; some common analytical practices; and principles to guide decision making around climate adaptation, community resilience, and social equity.
Resource Category: Planning
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November 2, 2017
The City of Atlanta, Georgia's urban resilience strategy, Resilient Atlanta, offers a set of visions, targets, and actions that address social equity and climate change adaptation. The strategy was developed to support the prevention of, and resilience to, extreme climate events such as major floods or heat waves, and long-term chronic stresses such as income inequality, lack of affordable housing, and the effects of climate change.
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June 2017
In 2017, Southeastern Montana Development Corporation (SEMDC) released the Southeastern Montana Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (
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May 18, 2017
In 2017, the District of Columbia’s Departments of Energy & Environment (DOEE) and Employment Services (DOES) partnered with GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic to start Solar Works DC, to implement a low-income solar installation program with a job training component. The purpose of the Program is to focus on training disadvantaged members of the D. C. community in solar installation, and provide low-income families with solar energy systems. Over a three-year period, more than 200 individuals have been trained in solar-related related industries.
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2017
This guidebook summarizes the main points of agreement from a dialogue between fifty professionals who met in the fall of 2016 to describe the top challenges and potential solutions that could promote regional resilience in Southeastern Connecticut. The challenges and solutions are organized by sector – including water, food, ecosystems, transportation, energy, the economy, and cross-sector issues and solutions. In addition, the guidebook provides an overview of the geologic context of the region and sample projects that showcase design options at the neighborhood, municipal, and multi-municipal scale.
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March 2017
This report summarizes a year of dialogue organized by The Nature Conservancy, the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments, and Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region that aimed to develop a shared understanding of resilience for the region and potential solutions. This was the first regional resilience effort in Connecticut. The report details the key issues identified through a series of “challenges workshop dialogues,” in which participants conceptualized challenges relevant to water, food, ecosystems, transportation, energy, and the economy.
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February 1, 2017
This report identifies market barriers to deploying solar and energy storage technologies in low-income markets, and proposes more than 50 grant and investment opportunities that socially-minded investors can use to target those barriers. Solar and energy storage can further climate adaptation by helping communities avoid power outages. The report includes a detailed analysis of the energy market and a matrix of interventions organized according to market participant, barriers, and difficulty.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Lew Milford, Robert Sanders
Resource Category: Solutions
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January 17, 2017
This Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) case study on the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) explores how local governments and other partners are coordinating at the regional scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the King County region of Washington state. This case study explores how the K4C was formed and has organized its decisionmaking, what local governments and other stakeholders are involved in the collaborative, what roles it is playing to reduce emissions in the region, and how the collaborative funds its activities.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Hillary Neger , Annie Bennett
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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December 2016
A Greater LA: Climate Action Framework was developed by the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) to help leaders in the LA region identify and implement the most promising and effective measures for reducing emissions and increasing resilience to climate change. It was designed to prioritize issues and actions that can have the most regional impact and that require more cross-county coordination.
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