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 CCAP Co-Authors New Book on how Changes in Land Development Patterns can reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Meeting the increasing demand for homes located in pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods with access to transportation options could significantly reduce the growth in the number of miles Americans drive – shrinking the nation’s carbon footprint – according to a new study, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. CCAP released the book Sept. 20, at an event in conjunction with Smart Growth America and the Urban Land Institute. Steve Winkelman, director of CCAP’s Transportation Program, is a key co-author of the report. For more information, please view the report here, and the CCAP press release, here.
Part Two of the CCAP Transportation Emissions Guidebook: Vehicle Technology and Fuels is now online. This will also link you to information on Part One: Land-Use, Transit & Travel Demand Management. |
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The Center has focused increased national and international
attention on the potential for smart growth policies and complementary
transportation demand management measures to reduce emissions
and conserve energy. Our efforts on smart growth include:
dialogues, quantitative analyses, papers, journal articles,
and presentations of our findings at conferences.
RECENT NEWS
Feb. 7 and 8, 2008 – Achieving the 60-80 percent reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change requires that federal climate and transportation legislation establishes cleaner vehicles and fuels and reduce the rapid increase in the amount Americans drive each year. At the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference -- hosted by the Local Government Commission -- CCAP Transportation Program Director Steve Winkelman explored these issues.
For more information, please view the CCAP press release.
Nov. 14, 2007 – CCAP Board Member and King County (WA) Executive Ron Sims testified at an Environment and Public Works Senate Committee legislative hearing on S.2191: America’s Climate Security Act. Mr. Sims spoke about significant opportunities necessary to build on existing provisions to the legislation, including how to prioritize and ensure investments will be made in policies designed to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Throughout his testimony, Mr. Sims presented detailed analysis from CCAP to demonstrate why reduction in travel demand is an important element of effective climate policy. For more information, please view Mr. Sims’ testimony.
On August 22nd, 2007, Steve Winkelman of CCAP gave the opening presentation and chaired Session III of the annual Asilomar Conference, held at UCDavis' Institute of Transportation Studies. The conference focused on advanced vehicle technologies, the link between GHGs and transportation, and other national/local transportation policies. Click here to read Steve Winkelman's presentation.
KEY PROJECTS
Green-TEA: Linking Transportation and Climate Policy
On February 26th, CCAP kicked-off a policy discussion (“Green-TEA”) on integrating climate change mitigation strategies into the next U.S. federal transportation bill and addressing travel demand in national climate policy, by hosting a web-based seminar attended by more than 40 U.S. transportation and land use experts. Steve Winkelman, manager of transportation at CCAP and Marty Spitzer, CCAP director of domestic programs, noted that travel demand strategies have been largely absent from national climate policy debates and posited the need for policy linkages between federal climate legislation and the reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Bill (SAFETEA-LU).
To read more about the Green-TEA project, please see the executive summary:
Green-TEA...a legacy for our planet? 
Click here to download the presentation from the February Web Conference:
Linking Green-TEA and Climate Policy
On March 26th, we had our second webinar. Stay tuned for Steve Winkelman and Marty Spitzer's Climate Policy Primer presentation.
On May 14th, CCAP held its third Green-TEA webinar to discuss how to address travel demand within transportation climate policy. Steve Winkelman of CCAP was joined by participants from across the country representing a diverse set of transportation experts. The main topic was exploring opportunities to link grenhouse gases and conformity. The discussion focused on the pros and cons of the conformity framework and understanding the challenges revolving around greenhouse gas emissions and travel demand.
Linking Green-TEA and Climate Policy: Do GHGs fit in Conformity?
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Steve Winkelman, Center for Clean Air Policy
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Climate Change, NY State Energy Plan, and NY MPOs/NYSDOT Efforts
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John Zamurs, New York State DOT
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Ensuring Transportation/Land Use Decisions are Part of the Solution to the Climate Change Challenge
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Michael Repogle, Environmental Defense
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Using Conformity to Reduce Transportation Generated GHG Emissions?
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Anne Canby, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership
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Two for the Price of One: Clean
Air & Smart Growth Forum
In December 2004, the Center organized a successful national-level
workshop on how clean air policies can foster smart growth
and how to maximize the air quality benefits of smart growth
policies. Final recommendations now available for download.
The Funders' Network has released CCAP's report: Air
Quality and Smart Growth: Planning for Cleaner Air.
This paper explores the connection between land development
patterns, transportation patterns, and air pollution and how
growing smarter can lead to better air quality.
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