@article{b931fe1920434a4890e0c5fb16bb675f,
title = "Linking climate change science with policy in California",
abstract = "Over the last few years, California has passed some of the strongest climate policies in the USA. These new policies have been motivated in part by increasing concerns over the risk of climate-related impacts and facilitated by the state's existing framework of energy and air quality policies. This paper presents an overview of the evolution of this increased awareness of climate change issues by policy makers brought about by the strong link between climate science and policy in the state. The State Legislature initiated this link in 1988 with the mandate to prepare an assessment of the potential consequences of climate change to California. Further interactions between science and policy has more recently resulted, in summer of 2006, in the passage of Assembly Bill 32, a law that limits future greenhouse gas emissions in California. This paper discusses the important role played by a series of state and regional climate assessments beginning in 1988 and, in particular, the lessons learned from a recently completed study known as the Scenarios Project.",
author = "Guido Franco and Dan Cayan and Amy Luers and Michael Hanemann and Bart Croes",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the participants in the Scenarios Project and especially to Eileen Tutt from the California Environmental Protection Agency. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their extremely valuable comments; however, we remain responsible for the content of this paper and for any errors or omissions that may have escaped our attention. This paper reflects the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the California Energy Commission or the state of California. Dan Cayan was partially supported by NOAA through their RISA program element. Funding Information: period the US Department of Energy (DOE) funded the Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative (ACPI) as a demonstration project, which on the US West Coast involved the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington at Seattle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and other research institutions. The main goal of this program was to increase capabilities to produce decade-to-century scale projections of climate at regional scales and to use these projections for climate impact and adaptation analyses. The results of this regional ACPI study were disseminated in a special issue in Climatic Change (Barnett and Pennell 2004). This study used one global climate model, the National Center for Atmospheric Research{\textquoteright}s (NCAR) Parallel Climate Model, and one global GHG emission scenario to investigate potential impacts of climate change on water resources and other water-related phenomena.",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/s10584-007-9359-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "87",
pages = "S7--S20",
journal = "Climatic Change",
issn = "0165-0009",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1 SUPPL",
}