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Regional Climate Prosperity Framework

Learn about a framework to create climate prosperity outcomes, demand for clean products, grow green industries, and align strategies for economic and environmental benefits. Explore ways to reduce emissions, increase energy savings, expand business opportunities, and green jobs.

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Regional Climate Prosperity Framework

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  1. Regional Climate Prosperity Framework February 21, 2009 Doug Henton & John Melville Collaborative Economics

  2. THE FRAMEWORK

  3. THE FRAMEWORK • OUTCOMES – create and capture the benefits of climate prosperity • DEMAND -- building the regional market for clean and green products and services • SUPPLY -- growing the regional base of clean and green industries • GLUE -- connects and aligns both demand and supply strategies, and tracks economic and environmental benefits

  4. OUTCOMES

  5. Create and Capture Benefits ofClimate Prosperity REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS • Total and per capita greenhouse gas emissions • Share of lower-emission, renewable energy sources • Energy productivity (energy use per GDP)

  6. Create and Capture Benefits ofClimate Prosperity INCREASE ENERGY AND FINANCIAL SAVINGS • Total and per capita energy consumption • Total and per capita financial savings from energy efficiency improvements

  7. Create and Capture Benefits ofClimate Prosperity EXPAND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES • Increase in new companies • Emergence of new industry sectors • Growth of revenues and value-added or productivity of existing firms • Growth in venture capital and other invest-ment in green and clean companies • Increase in green patents

  8. Create and Capture Benefits ofClimate Prosperity GROW GREEN TALENT AND JOBS • Numberof new green jobs in emerging and established industry sectors • Numberof workers in education • Training for green occupations

  9. DEMAND

  10. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services IMPROVE BUILDING EFFICIENCY • Green building standards and programs for residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental structures • Energy audits for buildings • Energy efficiency efforts for buildings

  11. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services INCREASE COMMUNITY RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND REUSE • Efficient water use and reuse efforts • Waste recycling and energy generation • Improving the efficiency of community features, such as street lights • Efficient land use strategies.

  12. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services GROW RENEWABLE ENERGY USE • Financial incentives • Regulatory streamlining and related efforts to promote rooftop solar systems • Utility-scale shifts to renewable energy sources

  13. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services EXPAND CLEANER TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS • Efforts to shift to alternative fuel vehicles and build alternative fuel infrastructure • Expand and promote public transportation and other lower-emission options.

  14. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services TRANSFORM BUSINESS PRODUCTS AND PRACTICES • Private sector efforts to move to new green product lines in established industries • Shift to new materials and more efficient machinery (e.g., computers) • Redesign production and other business processes.

  15. Build the Regional Market forClean and Green Products and Services PROVIDE A NEW ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE • Build a “smart grid” • Implement “smart metering”

  16. SUPPLY

  17. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries ENCOURAGE GREEN INNOVATION • Increase R&D investment • Secure patents • Provide access to testing facilities • Facilitate commercialization • Seed start-ups • Make global linkages to help spur regional innovation

  18. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries FACILITATE GREEN COMPANY EXPANSIONS Help individual firms with: • Site location requirements (including land and facilities), • Expansion financing • Growth needs

  19. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries BUILD THE GREEN VALUE CHAIN Broker linkages among: • Greenindustry segments • Buyersand suppliers in the region • Regional firms and global partners

  20. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries CREATE A PRO-GREEN REGULATORY CLIMATE • Alignment of local standards, policies, and processes (like permitting and inspection) • Removal of barriers • Advocacy of state-level changes to encourage and expedite green economic development

  21. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries EDUCATE AND TRAIN THE GREEN WORKFORCE Prepare new workers and retool existing workers at all levels for: • New Green Jobs • Solar installers • Green product manufacturing technicians • Sales • Scientists • Existing jobs that now require green skills • Electricians • Construction workers • Facility operations managers

  22. Grow the Regional Base ofClean and Green Industries PROMOTE REGIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES • Market products and services regionally and globally • Promote a unique regional identity/niche in the global green economy.

  23. THE GLUE

  24. Implementing the Framework • Regional Climate Prosperity Strategy can be developed by engaging all the key stakeholders in a collaborative process • One outcome can be a Negotiated Green Investment Strategy

  25. Negotiated Green Investment Strategy Key Elements • Public-private- community engagement • Local-state-federal involvement • Recognizes fragmentation • Seeks a shared agenda • Requires negotiation and collaboration

  26. Elements of a Negotiated Green Investment Strategy

  27. Regional Leadership is Required • Green stimulus is coming • States are organizing for green jobs • Localities are looking for funding • Private sector want markets • Regions provide a focal point for stakeholders to come together around a strategy.

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