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Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Reports

• 2008 Climate Change Impacts Assessment Project - Second Biennial Science Report to the California Climate Action Team

• List All PIER Climate Change Reports

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Additional reports can be found at Calif. Climate Change Center at U.C. Berkeley (external website)

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California Energy Commission Reports & Documents

• List All Energy Commission Reports with Keyword "Climate Change".
  

• Integrated Energy Policy Reports for 2003, 2005, and 2007. Report Updates for 2004 and 2006..

• Energy Action Plan I of 2003, Energy Action Plan II of 2005, and Energy Action Plan 2008 Update - joint Energy & Public Utilities Commission reports.

• Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 to 2004 - FINAL STAFF REPORT, posted: December 22, 2006. (Acrobat PDF, 132 pages, 682 kilobytes)

• Research Roadmap for Greenhouse Gas Inventory Methods - Consultant Report. Posted July 5, 2005. (PDF, 137 pages, 1.6 megabytes)

• Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2002 UPDATE - Staff Paper. Posted June 26, 2005. (PDF, 85 pages, 1.8 megabytes)

• Global Climate Change and California - Final Staff Paper in support of the Energy Commission's 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report by Susan Brown, Fuels and Transportation Division, California Energy Commission. Posted June 22, 2005. (PDF, 34 pages, 716 kilobytes)

• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in California, Staff Paper. Support document to the 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report. (Energy Commission publication # CEC-500-2005-103-SD). Posted June 13, 2005. (PDF file, 43 pages, 3.1 megabytes)

• Documents for the April 6, 2005, Energy Commission Policy Advisory Committee Meeting and the 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report

• Climate Change and California, final staff report. Support document to the 2003 Integrated Energy Policy Report. (Publication # 100-03-017F). Posted November 26, 2003. (PDF file, 46 pages, 769 kb)

• PIER Environmental Program Area: Climate Change Research, Development and Demonstration Plan, Consultant Report. Energy Commission Publication Number: 500-03-025FS, Publication Date: April 2003.

• STAFF REPORT - Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-1999, Publication # 600-02-001F. Executive Summary and Final Report (PDF files)

• Guidance to the California Climate Action Registry: Certification Protocol - Committee Report. Publication # 500-02-030. Posted June 12, 2002. (PDF, 32 pages, 276 kilobytes)

• Guidance to the California Climate Action Registry: General Reporting Protocol - Committee Report. Publication # 500-02-005. Posted June 12, 2002. (PDF, 151 pages, 924 kilobytes)

• 1997 Global Climate Change Report: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction For California. Released January 1998, published June 1998. Three volumes include:

  • Executive Summary, 1997 Global Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategies for California, Vol. 1 - Publication # 500-98-001V1
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategies for California, Vol. 2 - Publication # 500-98-001V2
  • Appendix A: Historical and Forecast Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories for California - Publication # 500-98-001V3

• "California Climate Change Programs: An Overview", PowerPoint presentation by Commissioner James D. Boyd, May 12, 2003, at the Conference of the Reducers, The Hague. Posted: May 29, 2003. (Microsoft PowerPoint, 1.7 megabytes).

• Conflict of Interest Process and Requirements for State and Registry-Approved Certifiers Posted: February 26, 2003 (27 pages, 64 kilobytes).

• California Energy Commission's Presentation at the California Climate Action Registry's Board Meeting on June 26, 2002.

• Workshop on Business and Industry Global Climate Change Strategies held at the Energy Commission on December 8, 1999.

  • Written Transcript of Workshop (PDF file, 332 pages, 662 kilobytes)

• "California's Energy Policy and Its Impacts on Global Climate Change," by California Energy Commission Chairman William Keese. Comments made at the International Global Climate Change Conference, Japan, January 1998.