CA-CP: Read All About It!

Clean Air-Cool Planet offers a host of publications to help you understand more about climate change: what it means, what can be done about it, and how CA-CP is working, with others, to address it. Below you'll find links to educational materials, presentations given at various CA-CP events, and more.

CA-CP Reports, Brochures and Multimedia Resources

• Risk and Opportunity in a Low-carbon Business Climate: Small & Mid-Caps & Climate Change.
• Preparing for the Changing Climate: A Northeast Focused Needs Assessment
• Trends in Extreme Precipitation Events for the Northeastern United States 1948-2007. A report showing the increasing extreme precipitation in the Northeast. (PDF, 15 MB)
• An Energy Future Transformed, The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) – R&D Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future (PDF, 1.43 MB)
• The Hip-Boot Tour: Catastrophic Effects of Sea-Level Rise. A report on the 2009 tour through Northeast coastal cities. (PDF, 231 KB)
• Winters Still Waning: The Changing Character of Winter Climate (PDF, 449K)
• Getting to Zero: Defining Corporate Carbon Neutrality (PDF, 3.04 MB)
• A Consumer's Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers (PDF, 1.05 MB)
• Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast (PDF, 1,622 KB)
  
• Winter Recreation and Climate Variability in NH 1984 - 2006 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• CA-CP Business Brochure (PDF, 2.7 MB)
• New England Climate Change brochure
• Cool Solutions to Global Warming - 24 Case Studies of Regional Global Warming Solutions (PDF, 4.3 MB)
• Solutions: What’s Being Done About Global Warming (DVD, online order form)

CA-CP Annual Reports

• CA-CP 2010 Tenth Anniversary Brochure (eBook)
• CA-CP Annual Report 2008 (PDF)
• CA-CP Annual Report 2007 (HTML) (PDF)
• CA-CP Annual Report 2006 (HTML) (PDF)
• CA-CP Annual Report 2005 - 5 Year Retrospective (PDF)

Clean Air-Cool Planet Fact Sheets:

• 10 Things You Can Do (PDF, 53 KB)
• Global Warming and the Northeast (PDF, 47 KB)
• Climate Change and the Northern Forest (PDF, 44 KB)
• Global Warming Threatens New England's Ski Industry (PDF, 26 KB)
• See additional NH-specific fact sheets from the Carbon Coalition

Arctic Fact Sheets:

• Short-lived Climate Forcers: Black Carbon, Methane and Tropospheric Ozone
• Arctic Wildlife and Effects of Warming

Tools for Educators

• Climate Impacts on Marine Sectors; PDF version (3.7 MB), Powerpoint version (9.3 MB)

• Horticulture and Climate Change; PDF version (2.3 MB), Powerpoint version (9.8 MB)
  

CA-CP Conference/Workshop Resources (Presentations or Publications from Events/Forums/etc)

• Climate Solutions for the Northeast, May 2003 (Remarks by Denise Nappier, PSEG CEO Frank Cassidy)
  
• Impacts of Climate Change on Horticulture, October 2003 (Presentations and Proceedings available)
  
• Transportation Solutions for the Northeast, September 2003 (Presentations and Findings and Final Report available)

Useful Articles and Reports from Other Sources

• Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers
• The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change looks at the global economic and social costs of aggressively mitigating versus adapting to climate change.
• Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (UCS)
• New Energy for Campuses (Energy Action and Apollo Alliance)
• New Energy for Towns
• Terrorism isn't the only force that threatens our health and safety. A Fortune article looks at the potential implications of abrupt climate change, outlined in a new Pentagon report.
• US NOAA Scientists Trenberth, Karl: “No doubt” human influence is driving climate disruption. December, 2003 (PDF)
• Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School: “Inside the Greenhouse: The Impacts of CO2 and Climate Change on Public Health in the Inner City”
• New England Regional Assessment of Climate Change Impacts, 2001 (2 pager PDF; whole report)