Relevant Climate Change Links and Documents

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

General Climate Change Resources:

• Governor Palin's Report on the Climate Change Sub-Cabinet, July 2008 (760 kb)
• The Alaska State Legislature Joint Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission's final report, released 17MAR08. (note: 8.2 MB)
• 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.

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