Relevant Climate Change Documents and Links

Disclaimer: The State does not necessarily endorse all documents or links listed below.

Important Documents

• Final and Draft Reports of the Advisory Groups and Work Groups
  • Adaptation Advisory Group Draft Final Report, by chapter
  • Mitigation Advisory Group Final Report, by chapter
  • Immediate Action Work Group Final Report (2.21 MB)
  • Research Needs Work Group Draft Final Report (1.2 MB)
• Decision Making for at-risk Communities in a Changing Climate by ACCAP (367 kb)
• GAO Report on Alaska Native Villages - Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened by Flooding and Erosion, final report 3JUN09 (see "full report" under title)
• Recommendations Report to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change, final report from the Immediate Action Workgroup, 17APR08 (1.04 MB)
• Joint Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission's final report, Alaska State Legislature, released 17MAR08 (8.2 MB) 
• Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Report, draft JAN08 (1.36 MB)

General Climate Change Resources:

• Former Governor Palin's Report on the Climate Change Sub-Cabinet, July 2008 (760 kb)
• Climate Change and Health information - Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
• Reports from the US Climate Change Science Program, 21 reports, January 2009. The list of reports is under "more" near the bottom
  • example: Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes
• Impacts of a Warming Arctic, Executive Summary 2004 - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (note: 3.2 MB)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - see Working Group Reports
• State and Regional Climate Actions Table (Comprehensive) - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Climate Change Reading Checklist - Alaska Libraries
• Legislative Commission Reading File - On the Reading File page, note the links to the right from meetings in cities around the state. The Fairbanks presentations contain information especially pertinent to the tasks of the Sub-Cabinet.
• NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is charged with helping society understand, plan for, and respond to climate variability and change.
• US Climate Change Science Program integrates federal research on global change and climate change

Alternative Energy and Energy Conservation:

• Clean and Diversified Fuel Initiative - Western Governor's Association
• Kotzebue Wind Projects (1.4MB) - Brad Reeve, Kotzebue Electric Association
• Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency - Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency

Alaska Immediate Impacts:

• Public Infrastructure and Climate Change, Michael J. Coffey, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, June 2008 (3.37 MB)
• Recommendations Report to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change, Immediate Action Workgroup (1.04 MB)
• Presentation to the Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission - Department of Environmental Conservation, 24JAN07 (note: 3.2 MB)
• (Draft) January 2008 Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Report (full document, 1.36 MB; the following are smaller sections for easier downloading)
  • Executive Summary (147 kb)
  • Appendix A - Title V Sources Inventory (176 kb)
  • Appendix B - Analysis of Jet Fuel Consumption in Alaska
  • Appendix C - Alaska Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections: 1990-2020 - Center for Climate Strategies, JUL07 (777 kb)
• Alaska Native Villages - US General Accountability Office
• Alaska Erosion Reports - April 2006, US Army Corps of Engineers (see Alaska Village Erosion Technical Assistance Program)
• Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure at Risk from Climate Change - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Alaska
• Fire and Climate Change in Alaska - Paul Duffy and Scott Rupp, University of Alaska (note: 3.9 MB)

Carbon Sequestration:

• West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
• Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change