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The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) provides assistance to policy makers, stakeholders, and the public in its mission to support the development and implementation of solutions to climate change. Its work encompasses the following areas:

Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Plans
CCS develops and implements multi-sector, comprehensive climate mitigation action plans at the state, regional, and national government levels and helps develop specific sector-based initiatives. For an extended explanation of the program types below, please click here.

State Climate Mitigation Action Plans
Federal–State Climate Policy Integration
Sector- and Policy-Specific Initiatives
Regional Climate Mitigation Programs
Local/Regional Government Climate Actions
Mexican States Climate Action Programs

Climate Change Adaptation Policies and Plans
The atmosphere has already been loaded with elevated GHG concentrations that will trigger significant new climate risks and damages at the local and state level. Using the same successful template it uses for developing climate mitigation plans, CCS assists local/regional collaboratives and state government jurisdictions with climate impact assessments and helps them create and develop response plans.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Studies
To support state and regional policy planning initiatives, CCS provides advanced, policy-relevant assessments of GHG emissions and related energy and economic inputs consistent with local, state, national, and international guidelines, including jobs and economic development. CCS helps set new standards for coverage and estimation of GHG emissions required for consensus building and comprehensive policy development. CCS also provides advanced economic modeling at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels in the form of state, regional, and national studies of economic feasibility, opportunity, and impact.

Climate Change Policy Information and Education
Through its website and team, CCS provides a virtual clearinghouse of information related to state, regional, and national climate policy development and implementation. In addition, CCS team members provide briefings, seminars, and speeches related to state climate policy development and implementation and federal–state climate policy integration for policy makers, lawmakers, stakeholders, students, media, and the lay public. Key members of the team also serve as faculty at major universities. (For a listing of CCS Team members and their bios click here.)

Analysis Says Energy Bill would Boost GDP, Jobs
The Clean Energy Jobs Act, recently introduced in the Wisconsin legislature, can create jobs and improve the state's economy according to a recent Center for Climate Strategies study.

Study Says Michigan Climate Plan Would Boost Economy
An independent analysis says a plan intended to help Michigan fight global climate change also would give the state economy a boost.

Southern Climate Policy Study Released
Report produced by CCS for the Southern Governors' Association shows substantial potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region.

Energy Independence: A State and Local Perspective
Tom Peterson moderated this workshop co-hosted by the German Embassy and the Johns Hopkins University Government Program as a part of the Transatlantic Climate Bridge Initiative.
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