Report, Limiting fossil fuel production as the next big step in climate policy
A proposal modeling the climate impacts if California’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources were to cease issuing permits for new, discretionary oil wells.
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Report, Reporting for a Secure Climate: A model disclosure for upstream oil and gas
The Carbon Tracker Initiative has prepared a 2019 report on model disclosures for upstream oil and gas, noting that current accounting and disclosure practices offer investors little visibility over the risk that oil and gas assets will be stranded.
Report, Stranded Assets: A Climate Risk Challenge
Offered best practices for managing investments with environmental risks, conducting risk and vulnerability studies, and reviewed cases studies including the U.S. coal crash.
Proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019
Would require disclosure to the SEC the total amount of a company’s fossil fuel-related assets, how the valuation of those assets will be affected by climate change and an explanation of how they are managing risks to those assets.
Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures
Providing guidance to organizations in how to assess climate-related risks and opportunities, and develop climate-related financial disclosures.
Final Guidance for Federal Depts. on Consideration of GHGs in NEPA Reviews
The Council on Environmental Quality issued final guidance in 2016 on considering GHG emissions and climate change in NEPA reviews. This guidance was withdrawn by the Trump Administration in 2017.
New York’s Clean Climate Careers Initiative
Launched in 2017 with the goal of creating 40,000 new clean energy jobs by 2020, the Initiative includes an Environmental Justice and Just Transition Working Group to advise the administration.
California’s Transformative Climate Communities Program
A competitive grant program that gives resources to the most disadvantaged communities in the state to achieve major environmental, health, and economic transformations.
CPUC Closure of Mohave Coal Facility
CPUC considered the impacts of closing a Mohave coal facility on the nearby Hopi and Navajo communities, and allocated funds from the sale of Acid Rain SO2 allowances to help transition.
PG&E Joint Proposal on Shutting Down Diablo Canyon
A 2016 PG&E joint proposal to retire the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant provides one model of a just transition. The agreement outlines severance, retention programs, and retraining and redeployment.