Task Force on Global Warming

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Governor's Task Force on Global Warming
Reports & Documents

This page contains official documents produced by the Task Force. Included here are:

Task Force Reports

  1. Final Report of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming, July, 2008
  2. Interim Report of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming, February, 2008
    A Wisconsin Strategy for Reducing Global Warming [PDF 4.8MB]
  3. Reports Prepared by Winrock International for the Forestry and Agriculture Work Group
  4. Ad-hoc Low Income Work Group Final Report [PDF 215KB]
    Delivered to the full Task Force at the January 25th meeting
  5. Wisconsin Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Projections [PDF 217KB]
    Prepared for the DNR and the Task Force by World Resources Institute, June 2007
  6. Modeling Inputs and Assumptions for Reference and Policy Cases [PDF 590KB]
    ICF International, July 14, 2008
    Note: please see the Modeling Page for all other modeling related documentation.

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Task Force Memos

  1. June 22, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 28KB] - This document establishes the organization, work plans and goals of the Task Force Work Groups.
  2. July 16, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Technical Advisory Group [PDF 17KB] - This document establishes objectives for the Technical Advisory Group.
  3. July 25, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to new Work Group Members [PDF 245KB] - This document establishes ground rules and defines the assignment for Work Groups. Includes attached memo from Conservation and Energy Efficiency Co-Chairs suggesting a 'general process' for Work Groups in developing policy recommendations.
  4. August 8, 2007 Memo from Technical Advisory Group to Task Force Co-Chairs [PDF 22KB] - This document represents the Technical Advisory Group's evaluation of the World Resources Institute's Wisconsin 2003 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.
  5. August 13, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 26KB] - This document updates Task Force members on the August Public Input Session, the Septermeber Task Force meeting, as well as Technical Advisory and other Work Group activity.
  6. August 16, 2007 Memo from Technical Advisory Group to Task Force Co-Chairs [PDF 19KB] - This document represents the Technical Advisory Group's recommendation of ICF International as modeling consultant for the Task Force.
  7. December 10, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 21KB] - This document encourages Task Force members to review the comments received at the August 6, 2007 Public Input Session, as well as comments submitted on draft policy templates.
  8. December 10, 2007 Memo from Industry Group to Task Force Co-Chairs [PDF 45KB] - This document establishes the Industry Group's concern over the possible use of 1990 emissions levels.
  9. December 12, 2007 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 43KB] - This document discusses modeling progress, upcoming Task Force decisions, concerns with Work Group policy templates, related Midwestern Governors Association resolutions, concerns with data issues, modeling limitations, Task Force goals and the role of the Work Groups going forward.
  10. January 10, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Work Group Co-Chairs [PDF 70KB] - This document makes requests of the Work Group Co-Chairs in prepartion for the January 25, 2008 Task Force meeting.
  11. January 29, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 24KB] - This document discusses anticipated progress over the next several meetings and outlines a longer-term work plan for the Task Force.
  12. February 20, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 26KB] - This document thanks Task Force members for their work leading to the Interim Report and lays out future steps for the policy templates and modeling effort.
  13. April 11, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 220KB] - This document reviews plans for moving forward including the template clean-up process, a work plan for addressing policy templates on which there is a difference of opinion, a process for reaching decisions, voting procedures and an update on modeling.
  14. May 14, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 23KB] - This document discusses the importance of the next three Task Force meetings and the matters that will be covered at each. This includes final modeling results, the roundtable discussion, emission target options, the draft Strawman Proposal and the revised Strawman Proposal.
  15. July 8, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 77KB] - This document discusses the drafting of the Final Report, as well as revision of policy templates, in accordance with the agreements reached in the revised Strawman Proposal. It asks for Task Force member review of this, and other clean-up and drafting work, in a timely fashion.
  16. July 16, 2008 Memo from Task Force Co-Chairs to the Task Force at-large [PDF 52KB] - This document lays out expectations for Task Force member feedback on the draft Final Report.

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Policy Templates

This section contains all the Policy Templates that are included in the Task Force's Final Report, as well as archived, draft versions of those templates.

Background on the creation of the policy templates has been summarized [PDF 24KB]. Public comment submitted on Draft Policy Templates can be found on this Public Comment Page.

Policies in the Final Report

Policy Templates included in the Task Force Final Report are presented below. The file has been excerpted directly from the Final Report.

Draft Policies

Draft versions of the Work Group Templates have been archived and consolidated into single files. These are listed below, by Work Group. The archive files are generally arranged chronologically and where possible, by individual template.

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Last Revised: Tuesday October 07 2008