2009: Year in Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Congressional
• International
• Markets and Business
• Science & Impacts
• State News
• Technology
• U.S. Federal

Congressional

• American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454; "Waxman-Markey") (June)
  • Brief and detailed summaries
  • Briefs describing impacts on key economic sectors and technologies
• American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 (S.1462) (June)
• Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act of 2009 (S.1733) (November)
• Clean Energy Act of 2009 (November)
• Climate Policy Briefing Videos
• Congressional Testimony

International

• A Roadmap for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change (February)
• Coal Initiative Series: Positioning the Indian Coal-Power Sector for Carbon Mitigation (February)
• Legal Form of a New Climate Agreement (April)
• Measurement, Reporting, and Verification in a Post-2012 Climate Agreement (April)
• Clean Development Mechanism Background Note (April)
• Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies (May)
• Verifying Mitigation Efforts in a New Climate Agreement (October)
• Comparability of Developed Country Mitigation Efforts (October)
• Climate Change Mitigation Measures in the European Union (December)

Markets and Business

• Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets (Offset Quality Initiative, June)
• Alstom Joins Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) - (July)
• CME Group Joins BELC (July)
• Innovation Through Alliance: A Case Study of the Dupont-BP Partnership on Biofuels (September)
• Corporate Energy Efficiency Portal (September)
• Daimler Joins BELC (October)
• Assessing Offset Quality in the Clean Development Mechanism (OQI, November)

Science and Impacts

• Brief: What is Black Carbon? (May)
• Brief: IPCC Updates (June)
• Global Change Impacts in the United States--Report of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (June 2009)
• Realities vs. Misconceptions About the Science of Climate Change (August)
• Brief: Ocean Acidification (August)
• White Paper: Black Carbon: A Science/Policy Primer (December)
• Analysis on Hacked Climate Emails (December)

State News

• New State Policy Maps: Decoupling Policies and VMT-Related Policies and Initiatives
• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Enters First Compliance Period (January)
• Thirty U.S. States and Territories Agree to Support Federal Climate Legislation (May)
• Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Releases Recommendations (June)
• EPA Grants Waiver Allowing California to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles (July)

Technology

• Carbon Capture and Sequestration Public Workshops (March)
• Climate TechBook - Low-Carbon Technology Factsheets (June)
• Wind and Solar Electricity, Challenges and Opportunities (June)
• Coal Initiative Series: A Performance Standards Approach to Reducing CO2 Emissions from Electric Power Plants (June)
• Policy Options for Reducing GHG Emissions from Transportation Fuels (August)
• Aviation and Marine Transportation: GHG Mitigation Potential and Challenges (December)

U.S. Federal

• Executive Branch Actions
• Memo: National Security Implications of Global Climate Change (August)
• Brief: Connecticut v. American Elec. Power Co. et al. (2009) (September)
• U.S. DOE's Recovery Act Spending (December)