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California’s Waiver Request to Control Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act

Description: This report reviews the nature of EPA's, California's, and other states' authority to regulate emissions from mobile sources, discusses the applicability of that authority to GHGs, and analyzes issues related to the California waiver request.
Date: December 27, 2007
Creator: McCarthy, James E. & Meltz, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Perspectives on the Top 20 Emitters and Developed Versus Developing Nations

Description: This report uses the data compiled by WRI to examine a pivotal and long-running issue surrounding U.S. climate change policy, the appropriate roles of developed and developing countries in addressing climate change.
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Parker, Larry & Blodgett, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Climate Change Financing: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF)

Description: This report provides an overview of two of the larger and more recently instituted international financial institutions for the environment-the Climate Investment Funds (CIF)--and analyzes their structure, funding, and objectives in light of the many challenges within the contemporary landscape of global environmental finance.
Date: May 5, 2011
Creator: Lattanzio, Richard K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate Change Legislation in the 110th Congress

Description: This report briefly discusses the basic concepts on which these bills are based, and compares major provisions of the bills in each of the following categories: climate change research; emissions reduction technologies; U.S. actions pursuant to international emission reduction agreements; adaptation to the effects of climate change; GHG reporting and registration; and GHG emissions reduction programs.
Date: June 29, 2007
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L. & Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Greenhouse Gas Reductions: California Action and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Description: This report provides the California action and the regional greenhouse gas initiative on the greenhouse gas reduction. The first section of this report discusses the activity in California. The second section focuses on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative effort of nine states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.. The report's final section considers these state-led actions from a federal policy making perspecti… more
Date: April 27, 2007
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Description: This report provides background on the evolution of U.S. climate change policy, from ratification of the UNFCCC to the Bush Administration's 2001 rejection of the Kyoto Protocol to the present. The report focuses on major regulatory programs that monitor or reduce green house gas emissions, along with their estimated effect on emissions levels.
Date: February 22, 2006
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Parker, Larry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Climate Change Financing: The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)

Description: This report provides an overview of two of the larger and more recently instituted international financial institutions for the environment-the Climate Investment Funds- and analyzes their structure, funding, and objectives in light of the many challenges within global environmental finance.
Date: June 3, 2013
Creator: Lattanzio, Richard K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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