How to Design Comprehensive Climate & Energy Legislation

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions produces a variety of reports and publications that may be useful to policymakers. Through a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Center has developed several resources to aid policymakers in the design and development of comprehensive climate & energy legislation.

The Congressional Policy Brief Series walks policymakers through important design choices and the strengths and weaknesses of various policy approaches. The briefs are divided into two books:

Cap-and-Trade Design Elements for a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program:

• Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Timetables
• Scope of a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowance Allocation
• Containing the Costs of Climate Policy
• Greenhouse Gas Offsets in a Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program
• Addressing Competitiveness in U.S. Climate Change Policy

Complementary Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions:

• Technology Policies to Address Climate Change
• Addressing Emissions From Coal Use in Power Generation
• Policies to Reduce Emissions from the Transportation Sector
• Tax Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Climate Policy Memos focus on recent climate legislation and are responsive to common questions from policymakers and their staff. There are currently seven policy memos:

• Cap & Trade v Taxes
• Eight Myths about the ACES Act
• Cost of ACES Act
• Allowance Distribution under ACES Act
• Addressing Competitiveness Issues in Climate Legislation
• Cost Containment and Offset Use in the ACES Act
• Comparison of CEJAP Act and CLEAR Act
• The Growth of Clean Energy Industries through Climate Legislation
• Major Climate and Energy Proposals in the 111th Congress

The Climate Policy Briefing Videos are a series of Congressional briefings on a variety of critical climate change policy issues.

The Congressional Policy Brief and Climate Policy Memo series were made possible through a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as the Pew Center on Global Climate. The views expressed in these documents are solely those of the Center and its staff.