Acadia Center

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 7, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,728,582

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. The most recent u.s. Greenhouse gas inventory estimates that sequestration from the nation's 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 nation's forests.ene is engaged in intensive effort to examine and provide direction for pathways for states to achieve deep reduction targets. Ene's climatevision 2020 project developed an attractive, web based site that provides easy to view information on the status of eight states (new england states, new york and new jersey) in meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets. Climatevision outlines the next steps for states to consider. Ene is currently expanding on this work with a comprehensive policy report on how states can get on a viable, credible pathway to an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050.

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. Ene is also developing economic information on the value of using clean fuel sources as an alternative to the potential for importing dirty canadian tar sand products.

Filer

EIN

01-0518193