Resources and links specific to
individual topics within this section are listed separately for that topic’s
web page. The Resource links shown below are more cross-cutting, and relate
to other GHG reductions in general. Additional resources are provided for
the specific topic areas indicated by the link bar on the left of this page.
Environmental Protection
Agency, “Climate Change: What You Can Do”
http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/index.html
You release greenhouse gases as a result of using energy to
drive, using electricity to light and heat your home, and through other
activities that support our quality of life like growing food, raising
livestock and throwing away garbage. Greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced
through simple measures like changing light bulbs and properly inflating
your tires. EPA’s website provides
over 25 easy steps you can take to not only reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions, but also reduce air pollution, increase the nation's energy
independence and save money.
U.S. Department of Energy,
Environmental Protection Agency, DOT, and USDA, "Climate VISION"
http://climatevision.gov/index.html
Climate VISION — Voluntary
Innovative Sector Initiatives: Opportunities Now — is a Presidential
public-private partnership initiative launched by the Department of Energy
on February 12, 2003, to contribute to the President's goal of reducing GHG
intensity. Other agencies participating in Climate VISION include the
Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, and the
Department of Agriculture. Today, business associations and trade groups
representing 14 energy-intensive industrial sectors and the Business
Roundtable are Climate VISION partners. Each has made a commitment to
contribute to meeting the President’s 18 percent intensity reduction goal by
improving energy efficiency or greenhouse gas emissions intensity of its
sector. These Climate VISION partners, which include some of the largest
companies in America, represent a broad range of industry sectors: oil and
gas production, transportation, and refining; electricity generation; coal
and mineral production and mining; manufacturing (automobiles, cement, iron
and steel, magnesium, aluminum, chemicals, and semiconductors); railroads;
and forestry products.
U.S. Department of Energy
and the Electric Utility Industry, “Climate Challenge Options Workbook”
(October 1994)
http://www.climatevision.gov/climate_challenge/cc_options1.htm
Beginning in 1994, Climate
Challenge was a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and
the electric utility industry to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. As part of the Climate Challenge process, the electric utility
industry and DOE jointly developed the Climate Challenge Options Workbook.
This effort was an important part of engendering cultural change throughout
the utility industry and the government. The Workbook, which was first
published in October 1994, identifies over fifty categories of activities
that utilities can undertake to cost-effectively reduce, avoid, or sequester
greenhouse gas emissions. The categories of options cover all areas of
end-use programs, generation technologies, transmission, distribution, and
other actions. Numerous utility-specific case studies illustrate utilities'
successful implementation of these options.
U.S. Department of Energy,
“Climate Challenge Program Report” (December 1996)
http://www.climatevision.gov/climate_challenge/progressreport/letter.htm
Beginning in 1994, Climate
Challenge was a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and
the electric utility industry to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. The initiative, announced as a foundation action under the
Climate Change Action Plan, was part of the United States' initial response
to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. This Program report
describes the industry initiates made under Climate Challenge, and provides
descriptions of numerous broad-ranging GHG reduction projects made by
various electric utilities.
Click here
or
on "Add PPRG Content" above to add additional references and sources.
