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CALIFORNIA CLIMATE CHANGE CENTER

UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at BERKELEY

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  ~ NEWLY RELEASED ~

August 16, 2006

►"Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in California."◄

To download the full report:  →click here←

To download the executive summary only:  →click here←

To view the UC Berkeley press release:  →click here←

 

►Also an updated economists' letter ◄

60 California economists call for climate change action in California
 
To download the letter:  →click here←

 
 

 

Analyzing the expected impacts of climate change on California

To download these reports: →click here←

 

 

"Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California."
To download this report:  →click here←
 
 

Press coverage of the report Managing GHG Emissions in CA:

"Two independent analyses say an effort, opposed by business, to cut greenhouse gases could be beneficial for California's economy," Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2006. 

To view the full Los Angeles Times article:   →click here←

 

Press release on the report:

To view the University of California, Berkeley, press release:  →click here←

 

INTRODUCTION to the BERKELEY CENTER

In 2003, the California Energy Commission, through its Public Interest Energy Research program, established the California Climate Change Center to undertake a broad program of scientific and economic research on climate change in California.  The Center is organized as a “virtual” institution with sites at both the UC Berkeley campus and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UC San Diego campus). The Berkeley Center, based at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, is focusing on economic and policy analysis, while the Scripps Center focuses on physical climate modeling.

BERKELEY CENTER MISSION

The mission of the Berkeley Center is to advance the state-of-the-science regarding the potential regional impacts of climate change on California and its economy, ecology and society, and to investigate policies that California might adopt both to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and also to reduce California’s contribution by way of greenhouse gas emissions.

PARTICIPATION

The Berkeley Center is directed by Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy. Participating faculty are drawn from the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) as well as the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), the Graduate Group in Energy & Resources (ERG), and the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

POLICY DEVELOPMENTS

Governor Schwarzenegger's announcement of specific reduction targets for statewide greenhouse gas emission levels over the coming decades garnered much attention in California and elsewhere.  See our policy briefing for an assessment of the current policy landscape at a variety of levels of governance.  

                                         →Go to the briefing on policy.

**last updated:  August 2006**

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