Acadia Center

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 5, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$1,924,712

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Climate policy and forests and land use - ene's climate project covers state, regional, federal and us/canada jurisdictions. We promote policies and planning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (ghg) from all sectors. Ene serves as a leading stakeholder role in the regional greenhouse gas initiative (rggi) process. Our rggi auction tracker and macroeconomic benefits documents provide up-to-date reporting and analysis of the program's progress. This year, we identified and advanced support for design improvements for the upcoming phase ii review period. Ene also helps implement key policies to reduce ghgs from the energy, transportation and land sectors as part of efforts to combat global warming in connecticut, massachusetts, rhode island and maine as part of state global warming solutions legislation. Ene's climate and energy analysis (ene-clean) center has one of the most comprehensive databases on energy consumption and emission trends. Ene deploys this information to provide credible information on ways to reduce emissions and adopt policies that will spur a cleaner economic future. Ene's climate work extends to forests and land use, especially in terms of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions or absorption. The most recent u.s. Greenhouse gas inventory estimates that sequestration from the nations grasslands, cropland and forests currently offsets 14.9% of our annual ghg emissions. Ene raised awareness at the state level of the greenhouse gas implications of development and land clearing; at the regional level on developing a set of rigorous standards for forest carbon offset projects in the regional greenhouse gas initiative (rggi); and at the federal level on applying the rggi offsets analysis to federal climate policy approaches and seeking to obtain commitments in federal climate legislation to protect and pay for the carbon benefits of our nations forests.

Activity 3

Transportation - ene promotes policies that encourage alternative fuels, specifically fuels with lower carbon content than gasoline and diesel. The nation's current reliance on a petroleum-fueled transportation system contributes to harmful climate change and air pollution and leaves consumers vulnerable to price shocks from an unstable global energy market. The transportation sector is now the second largest source of u.s. Greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, accounting for 28% of all anthropogenic ghg emissions in the u.s., and nearly 40% in the northeast states. One of the most promising ways to reduce transportation pollution in the northeast is by increasing the adoption of electric vehicles. Ene engages in regulatory, technical and policy initiatives and research to find ways to encourage the marketing and distribution of electric vehicles as a pathway to reduce emissions from the transportation sector. Another top strategy to reduce transportation emissions is transitioning to low carbon fuels such as electricity, hydrogen, and advanced biofuels and away from conventionally made gasoline, high carbon ethanol, and petroleum products derived from oil sands. A clean fuel standard (cfs) is a critical policy tool to achieve the transition to cleaner fuels, provided that it employs a rigorous lifecycle ghg accounting system and sustainability standards. Ene's cfs project is focused on designing and advancing a regional policy that limits the carbon content of fuels.

Filer

EIN

01-0518193