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CALIFORNIA CLIMATE CHANGE CENTER UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at BERKELEY
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Analyzing the expected impacts of climate change on California To download these reports: →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).
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