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Title: Facing the elements: Building business resilience in a changing climate: case studies
Description: In a report directed to the business community, NRTEE presents case studies of the practical adaptation actions, experience and advice of what they call "climate pacesetters". The thirteen Canadian firms profiled are: B.C.Hydro, Cameco, Coca Cola Canada, EBA Engineering Consultants, Entenergy, Hydro Quebec, J.D. Irving, Munich RE, Rio Tinto Alcan, Royal Bank of Canada, Summerhill Pyramid Winery, Tolco Industries, and Whistler Blackcomb. Companion documents: A Business Primer and an Advisory Report to Government, with research and recommendations on how government can support greater business adaptation to climate change.
Identifier (PID): yul:1127524

Title: Greening of industries in the EU: Anticipating and managing the effects on quantity and quality of jobs
Description: Examines green business practices and greening processes aimed at mitigating climate change. The study had two main objectives: to provide an overview at both sectoral and cross-sectoral level in the EU of the effects of greening on the quantity and quality of jobs in 10 sectors (automotive, chemicals, construction, distribution and trade, energy, furniture, nonmetallic materials, shipbuilding, textiles and transport); and to analyse good practice examples of the anticipation and management of green change at the company level in these sectors.
Identifier (PID): yul:1122092

Title: Don't Delay: Methane Emission Restrictions Mean Immediate Jobs in Alberta
Description: The report argues that methane regulations should be tightened immediately, rather than the current government proposal to wait till 2023- partly to reduce more GHG's, and partly because the potential to create jobs in a growing methane mitigation industry – up to 15,000 years of work over a decade – could be delayed or lost to U.S.-based competitors that have already begun developing new equipment or approaches in leading U.S. markets.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121714

Title: CANUSPLAIN Annex II to the Canada United States Joint Inland Pollution Contingency Plan
Description: A Plan for Response to Polluting Incidents Along the Inland Boundary between the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and the States of Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120751

Title: Report in Brief: America’s Climate Choices
Description: This four-page fact sheet is a quick overview of the subject matter contained in four reports by the National Academy of Sciences, in the series known as "America's Climate Choices."
Identifier (PID): yul:1120726

Title: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Keystone XL Pipeline: Appendix O SocioEconomic
Description: Detailed statistics concerning employment impacts for construction of the pipeline and alternative scenarios (rail etc), by state, and by minority status, and by low income status.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120706

Title: Forest Products Industry Technology Roadmap
Description: The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance, which promotes development of new technologies for the forest products industry as a special project of the American Forest & Paper Association, partnered with Georgia Tech’s Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) to conduct workshops that led to the development of the roadmap documented in this report. Topics include water conservation, biomass, reduction of water use, carbon emissions.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120672

Title: Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan Final Rule
Description: Official estimates of the benefits for the economy, the environment, and for human health of the Clean Power Plan, which regulates coal-fired electricity. Uses the Social Cost of Carbon in its modelling.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120655

Title: Federal Efforts to Reduce the Cost of Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide
Description: Describes the current government efforts at demonstration projects and research into carbon capture and storage, including costs of generating coal-fired electricity with CCS technology. The report considers alternate policy scenarios for investment in CCS technology, including increased funding by the Department of Energy, or increased reliance on private sector funding.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120642

Title: The Economic and Budgetary Effects of Producing Oil and Natural Gas From Shale
Description: Explains why the economic effects of shale gas will be greater in the short term than the long term. Considers how development of shale gas will affect the U.S. budget, the global energy market, and the environment.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120640

Title: NIOSH Perspectives on Sustainable Buildings: Green and Safe . A White Paper
Description: This White paper describes the role of the U.S Green Building Council (USGBC) and its environmental rating system. It describes the role of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) along with recent developments suggesting increasing interest among NIOSH stakeholders in integrating safety and health into green and sustainable construction approaches. It makes a case for further dialogue and collaboration between the occupational and environmental communities and describes how USGBC and NIOSH are in unique positions to advance this discussion. As an appendix, includes a Resolution by the Building Trades Council to the AFL-CIO, titled Re: Safe Green and Sustainable Construction.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120633

Title: Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System: Executive Summary
Description: This is the Executive Summary of the larger report by the same name - a technical, scientific, and economic analysis of climate-change effects on global food security and food systems. The report’s scope is global, due to the interdependencies within and among food systems and the shifting geography of food supplies and demands. The report does not examine the U.S. food system nor make recommendations.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120576

Title: Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable Energy Outlook for Canada
Description: The Greenpeace Advanced Energy [R]evolution scenario shows how, by 2050, renewable energy sources could provide 96% of the electricity produced in Canada and 92% of our total heating demand, accounting for 74% of our overall primary energy demand. The blueprint would create about 72,000 jobs in the renewables sector alone, by 2030.
Identifier (PID): yul:826540

Title: Costs to Canada’s Health Care System of Climate Change Impacts on Health ( Annex A )
Description: The objective of this work is to provide additional information on the public sector health care costs of morbidity estimates in “Costing Climate Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Study on Human Health”, so as to express the estimated ozone related, climate change-induced morbidity cases as a cost to the Canadian public health care system.
Identifier (PID): yul:776500

Title: Investment and Lock-In Analysis for Canada: Low Carbon Scenarios to 2050 - Final Report
Description: The Government of Canada has set a greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 17% percent below 2005 levels by the year 2020, as well as a long-term target of 65% below 2005 levels by 2050.The objective of this project is to estimate the impact of greenhouse gas emission abatement timing on required capital investment in Canada in order to meet these targets.
Identifier (PID): yul:776497

Title: National Global Change Research Plan 2012–2021: A Triennial Update
Description: The final document in the Obama-era climate change regime. Summarizes achievements to date of the USGRCP, focusing on the agency's four goals : "advance science, inform decisions, conduct sustained assessments, and communicate and educate. This update builds upon significant accomplishments in basic research, scientific assessment and the production of science for decision support, information management and sharing, and engagement and education. It also discusses progress and challenges in interagency research priority areas, such as Arctic research and resilience, methane cycling in the context of the carbon cycle, and water-cycle extremes and their impacts. "
Identifier (PID): yul:1120722

Title: U.S. Energy and Employment Report 2016
Description: The 2016 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) is the agency’s first annual analysis of how changes in America’s energy profile are affecting national employment in multiple energy sectors. Using a combination of existing energy employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a new survey of energy sector employers, the survey recognizes new employment codes and professions generated within all energy fields, including energy efficiency, transmission, fossil, nuclear, utility operations, and renewable generation sources.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120667