# Presentation: 366558

## Climate Change Integration and Technology Approach

**Bob Card**
**Undersecretary, Department of Energy**
**Chair, Interagency Working Group on Climate Change Science & Technology**
**U.S. Climate Change Science Program Planning Workshop**
**December 5, 2002**

## Process Flow For Climate Change Management – Executive Branch

## Climate Change Science and Technology Management Structure

**Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration**
- Chair: Secretary of Commerce*       Vice Chair: Secretary of Energy*
- Executive Director: OSTP Director
- Secretary of State			Secretary of the Interior
- Secretary of Agriculture			Secretary of HHS
- EPA Administrator			Secretary of Transportation
- OMB Director			Secretary of Defense
- NEC Director			CEQ Chairman
- NASA Administrator			NSF Director

**Climate Change Science Program**
- Director: Assistant Secretary of Commerce 	                  for Oceans and Atmosphere
- Members: DOC, DOD, DOE, DOI, DOS, DOT, EPA, HHS, NASA, NSF, OMB, OSTP, Smithsonian, USAID, USDA

**Climate Change Technology Program**
- Director: Assistant Secretary of Energy                          for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Members: DOC, DOD, DOE, DOI, DOS, DOT, EPA, HHS, NASA, NSF, OMB, OSTP, USAID, USDA

**Interagency Working Group on **
**Climate Change Science and Technology**
- Chair: Deputy/Under  Secretary of Energy*
- Vice Chair: Deputy/Under Secretary of Commerce*
- Secretary: OSTP Associate Director for Science
- Members DS/US Level:
- CEQ, DOD, DOI, DOS, DOT, EPA,
- HHS, NASA, NEC, NSF, OMB, USDA

- *Chair and Vice Chair of Committee and Working Group rotate annually

**President’s**
**Climate Change Policy Panel **
- (NSC, DPC, NEC)

**Voluntary Programs and Emissions Registry**
- CEQ, DOC, DOE, EPA, USDA

**International Activities**
- (Incl. Task Force on International Energy Cooperation)
- DOS, DOE, USAID and Other Agencies

**Climate Change Science and Technology Management Structure**

## Technology Vision

- Achieve energy intensity reduction
- Generation of carbon free and emissions-trapped electrical power and hydrogen
- Look toward electrical power and hydrogen as the primary energy carriers
- Optimize indirect sequestration potential
- All this while meeting future energy needs

## Technology Principals

- Solutions should be globally adaptable and integrated
- Economics of the hydrocarbon energy structure should be accounted for
- Resource availability (lots of decades)
- Stable constant $ production cost in the near term (few decades)
- Delivery and use infrastructure
- Producer and consumer dependencies

## Technology Principals (Cont.)

- Historical analogues should be acknowledged
- Economic impact
- Conservation and fuel switching
- Consumer reaction to transportation alternatives
- Relative priority for GHG emissions vs other environmental objectives needs to be clarified for full adoption of many technologies
- Business engagement will be required for development and adoption

## Summary of Changes in the Technology Program

- Presidential direction and executive level involvement
- Interagency integration
- Integration with other climate change functions – Science, Voluntary Programs, International

## Summary of Changes (Cont.)

- All of DOE’s energy and science portfolio included
- Major new involvement by Agriculture
- Ability to reduce GHG emissions established as a top tier R&D investment criteria
- Economic and performance goals revised to compete with hydrocarbon alternatives

## Summary of Changes (Cont.)

- Hydrogen, emissions sequestration, and nuclear receiving increased focus
- Sustained effort on other technology fronts
- Business and international partnerships

## Summary

- The Administration has an active executive-level integration function for its climate change approach
- The technology challenge is daunting with significant institutional and economic considerations – but –
- We possess the basic building blocks today and success can be achieved