Education And Communication

CLI staff and associates offer briefings and seminars to a variety of organizations on the causes, risks, and solutions to climate warming. We provide state of the art information and tools to help people understand what climate warming is, how it may impact them, solutions to transition to a low-carbon economy, and the costs and benefits of various policy and program tools.

• Our Community Climate Stewards Program seeks to engage households and individuals in collectively reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or carbon footprint.
  

For the general public, CLI provides links to recent news articles, and key scientific, economic, and policy reports about climate warming. A members only website provides more detailed information on policies and programs to address climate warming.

Climate Economics

• Washington Economic Assessment
• Oregon Economic Assessment

Greenhouse Gas Quantification

CLI will quantify the greenhouse gas emissions produced by a business, industry, region, community, or local government. Baseline patterns and future trends will be identified. This information will be designed to help our clients complete Phase II of a climate protection plan. CLI will also keep a voluntary index of baseline emissions and emission reductions achieved by private and public entities across the Northwest. This will provide a means to measure progress over time.

• Springfield Green House Gas Assessment -coming soon

Low Carbon Economic Development

Policy and Program Development

Both the policies required for the shift to a low-carbon economy and the socio-economic effects of climate change will increasingly place tremendous stress on existing systems of governance. CLI assists government entities in understanding the risks to governance posed by climate change and to develop voluntary and regulatory policies and programs that are appropriate to the size and scale of the challenge. Through these actions CLI provides a venue for a much-needed discussion of the role of government in addressing climate warming.

CLI will help analyze, develop, and monitor climate mitigation, adaptation policies and programs. This information will be designed to help organizations complete Phase III of a climate protection action plan.

In specific, CLI will develop voluntary mitigation strategies modeled after the "covenant" system developed in the Netherlands and used by the State of New Jersey. In addition, CLI can develop fiscal and other types of incentives. CLI can also develop and evaluate regulatory tools such as C02 Disclosures, Contraction and Convergence systems including Cap and Trade and Individual Carbon Allocations, Carbon Offsets, Renewable Energy Portfolios, and other approaches.

Adaptation strategies focus on issues such as natural hazards response, water supply protections, and others. Economic development programs focus on growing industry clusters to enhance business and job opportunities in sectors that implement greenhouse gas reduction practices or produce related products and services.

• Local Government Program

Natural Hazards

For more information visit Resource Innovation's Social Vulnerability & Natural Hazards page

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