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The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) provides assistance to policy makers, stakeholders, and the public in its mission to support the development and implementation of solutions to climate change. Its work encompasses the following areas:

Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Plans
CCS develops and implements multi-sector, comprehensive climate mitigation action plans at the state, regional, and national government levels and helps develop specific sector-based initiatives. For an extended explanation of the program types below, please click here.

State Climate Mitigation Action Plans
Federal–State Climate Policy Integration
Sector- and Policy-Specific Initiatives
Regional Climate Mitigation Programs
Local/Regional Government Climate Actions
Mexican States Climate Action Programs

Climate Change Adaptation Policies and Plans
The atmosphere has already been loaded with elevated GHG concentrations that will trigger significant new climate risks and damages at the local and state level. Using the same successful template it uses for developing climate mitigation plans, CCS assists local/regional collaboratives and state government jurisdictions with climate impact assessments and helps them create and develop response plans.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Studies
To support state and regional policy planning initiatives, CCS provides advanced, policy-relevant assessments of GHG emissions and related energy and economic inputs consistent with local, state, national, and international guidelines, including jobs and economic development. CCS helps set new standards for coverage and estimation of GHG emissions required for consensus building and comprehensive policy development. CCS also provides advanced economic modeling at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels in the form of state, regional, and national studies of economic feasibility, opportunity, and impact.

Climate Change Policy Information and Education
Through its website and team, CCS provides a virtual clearinghouse of information related to state, regional, and national climate policy development and implementation. In addition, CCS team members provide briefings, seminars, and speeches related to state climate policy development and implementation and federal–state climate policy integration for policy makers, lawmakers, stakeholders, students, media, and the lay public. Key members of the team also serve as faculty at major universities. (For a listing of CCS Team members and their bios click here.)

Whitman & Peterson: Climate Bill Should Top the Congress’ To-Do List
As Congress approaches the August recess, our economy, energy and environmental security needs still top the to-do list of the president and Congress. This summer the Center for Climate Strategies and the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition have outlined how Congress can put a national strategy in place that gets all three on the same page: by passing comprehensive national climate change and energy policy that reflects our best policy options for immediate action.

New Climate and Energy Policies Could Create 2.5 Million Jobs, Hold Down Energy Costs
July 22, 2010 -- New greenhouse gas emissions and energy policies at the Federal level could generate as many as 2.5 million new jobs and $134 billion in economic activity in the U.S. while keeping energy costs down, according to a new report from the Center for Climate Strategies, published with Johns Hopkins University.

Colorado legislature raises state RES, move seen creating jobs
A coalition of stakeholders who worked on the Colorado Climate Panel's were critical to the new legislation’s passage. Since investor-owned utilities supply 60% of Colorado’s electricity, this implements most of the Panel recommendation (adopted by the Governor) on renewable energy standards (RES).

Analysis Says Energy Bill would Boost GDP, Jobs
The Clean Energy Jobs Act, recently introduced in the Wisconsin legislature, can create jobs and improve the state's economy according to a recent Center for Climate Strategies study.
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