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Paula J.
Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs: "Therefore it is
our intention to implement policies that will foster these
technology-based solutions -- that is the way we will address the
challenge of global climate change. Significantly, we also believe that
climate change should not be pursued in isolation, but should be handled
as an integral part of a broad strategic paradigm of sustainable
development, which features a balanced mix of environmentally sound,
pro-economic growth policies. At the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg and at the COP-8 meeting last year in New
Delhi, we found strong and growing support for this position among
developing countries." (64KB PDF file)
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The
Alternative Fuels Data Center calls itself a "one-stop shop for all your
alternative fuel and vehicle information needs". The site has over 3,000
documents available online, an interactive fuel station mapping system,
and listings of available alternative fuel vehicles. It is sponsored by
the U.S. Dept. of Energy's, Office of Transportation Technologies.
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The goal of
the American Hydrogen Association (AHA) is to stimulate interest and help
establish the renewable hydrogen energy economy by the year 2010. To
achieve this goal, the AHA is working in cooperation with organizations
such as the IAHE, NHA, NASA, environmental groups and industry, community,
and schools to promote understanding of hydrogen technology, and help
create a marketplace for pollution-free hydrogen energy.
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The Argonne
National Laboratory is a research facility or the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), involved in developing advanced vehicle technologies. Their
research programs concentrate on alternative fuels, batteries, engines and
emissions control, fuel cells, hybrid vehicles, materials, modeling, and
technology assessments. Argonne's technical papers and reports on
transportation research are available online.
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The Carbon
Cycle Science Program was established by the U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP) to provide critical unbiased scientific information on
the fate of carbon dioxide in the environment to contribute to the ongoing
public dialogue. The Program provides the scientific foundation for
estimating the capacity of the land and the ocean to sequester and store
the considerable quantities of carbon dioxide anticipated from human
activities in the future. The website provides information about current
research activities, funding opportunities, meetings & workshops and
access to online publications.
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CREST
publishes information about renewable energy, energy efficiency and
sustainability for the Internet. The GEM (Global Energy Marketplace)
database contains records to websites with information on energy
technology and policy.
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The CTTS's
mission is to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil supplies,
while improving air quality, by developing and demonstrating innovative
technologies that allow alternative fuels and advanced vehicle systems to
supply a significant portion of the nation's transportation needs.
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CADDET
collects, analyses, and disseminates information on new energy-saving
technologies that have been demonstrated in applications in industry,
buildings, transport, utilities, and agriculture. To date, details on over
2,000 new technology applications have been published through CADDET
Energy Efficiency products.
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A list of
recent technical publications on climate change mitigation from the
Environmental Energy Technologies Division. They are all available online
in pdf format.
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The EREN
homepage serves as a portal to the Department of Energy's (DOE) energy
efficiency and renewable energy information, with access to more than 600
links and 80,000 documents.
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The objective
of the Global Technology Strategy Project (GTSP) is to identify global and
regional technology portfolios that could minimize the cost of atmospheric
stabilization through a public-private research collaboration. The project
seeks to add a new dimension to our understanding--a long-term,
international, energy technology strategy. The project is developing this
strategic vision through a program of focused research. This research is
illuminating of the global and regional interrelationships between Energy
Technology, Economic Activity, and Climate Policy. The project utilizes
the best current understanding of present and potential future technology
and embeds that knowledge in an economic and policy context to examine the
potential value to climate mitigation of alternative energy research and
development portfolios and patterns of technology development.
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The report
addresses the technology transfer problem in the context of climate change
while emphasizing the sustainable development perspective. (331KB PDF
file)
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NETL is a
long-standing participant in the development and demonstration of fossil
fuel-based technologies that can be used to develop flexible, market-based
protocols as low-cost solutions for achieving global reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions. Some of their on-site science and technology
development activities include: Carbon Sequestration, Ultra Clean Fuels,
Computational Energy Science (development of clean energy devices and
plants), and Gas Energy Systems Dynamics (fuel cells).
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NREL conducts
research in about 50 areas of scientific investigation, including
photovoltaics, wind energy, biomass-derived fuels and chemicals,
energy-efficient buildings, advanced vehicles, solar manufacturing,
industrial processes, solar thermal systems, hydrogen fuel cells,
superconductivity, geothermal and waste-to-energy technologies. The
website contains R&D program descriptions, data & information and a
publications database and an entire section devoted to national and
international applications, and technology transfer.
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The NREL
Publications database includes references to 16,000 documents related to
sustainable energy technologies that were written or edited by National
Renewable Energy Laboratory staffers and subcontractors.
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The Office of
Global Programs (OGP) leads the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program.
NOAA has the primary responsibility within the Federal Government to
routinely provide climate forecasts and products to the Nation. OGP
assists in this capacity by sponsoring focused scientific research, within
approximately eleven research elements, aimed at understanding climate
variability and its predictability. Through studies in these areas,
researchers coordinate activities that jointly contribute to improved
predictions and assessments of climate variability over a continuum of
timescales from season to season, year to year, and over the course of a
decade and beyond.
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The
Environment Division of the OSTP (which serves as a source of scientific
and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to
major policies, plans, and programs of the federal Government) provides
national leadership to ensure a sound scientific and technical foundation
for environmental policies and programs, and coordinates Federal research
and development strategies for environment and natural resource policies,
in area's including global climate change research and renewable energy
technology. Papers, Reports, Publications, selected Administration
Statements, Speeches and Testimony, Media Releases, White House
Publications and R&D Budget Documents are available in full text at this
site.
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The primary
goal of the OTT is to "reduce the annual increase in the use of petroleum
fuels by highway transportation vehicles to zero or less". The site was
developed to be an educational tool and information center, describing the
structure of OTT and explaining OTT's involvement in developing advanced
vehicles. The Office of Transportation Technology focuses on reducing
transportation petroleum use through energy efficiency and fuel
substitution. The site contains vehicle and emissions analysis tools,
vehicle purchasing tools, information on OTT technologies (vehicles,
fuels, emissions), and links to lab partners.
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The Public
Power Institute (PPI) uses the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the
nation's largest producer of electricity, as a living laboratory to
showcase new technologies that TVA can use to balance environmental and
energy objectives, and to provide technical and scientific input on
government regulations and public policies. Their research and development
activities include: carbon sequestration technologies, fuel cell
technology, wind power and solar energy.
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As part of the
President's National Climate Change Technology Initiative, launched on
June 11, 2001, the President directed the Secretary of Energy, in
coordination with the Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, to lead a multi-agency review of the
Federal R&D portfolio and make recommendations. The Climate Change
Technology Program (CCTP) was established in 2002 to implement the
President's Initiative. The CCTP is a multi-agency research and
development (R&D) coordination activity, organized under the auspices of
the Cabinet-level Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology
Integration (CCCSTI). Participating Federal agencies include the
Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Health and Human
Services, Interior, State, and Transportation, as well as the
Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and the National Science Foundation. (56KB PDF file)
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The
Transportation Energy Policy Analysis group, a part of the Berkeley Lab's
Energy Analysis Department, analyzes how the combination of vehicle
technology, land-use patterns, and driving behavior affect energy use and
greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector.
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U.S. Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham says the United States is moving ahead in an
unprecedented international effort to make clean energy the cornerstone of
economic growth, improved health and closer ties among nations. (47KB PDF
file)
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