§13389 Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Strategies

Summary

Creates a federal effort to find, test, and help use technologies that cut greenhouse gas intensity — meaning the amount of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic output. Key terms: Advisory Committee — the Climate Change Technology Advisory Committee; Carbon sequestration — capturing CO2 so it does not reach the air; Committee — the Committee on Climate Change Technology; Developing country — as defined in section 13387(m); Greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride; Greenhouse gas intensity — the ratio of emissions to economic output; National Laboratory — as defined in section 15801(3). Within 180 days after August 8, 2005, the President must set up the Committee on Climate Change Technology (chaired by the Secretary and including several Cabinet and agency leaders). Within 18 months after August 8, 2005, the Committee must give the President and Secretary a national strategy to promote commercialization and deployment of technologies from National Labs, universities, federal facilities, and the private sector; that strategy must be made public and updated at least every 5 years. The Secretary must, within 180 days after the Committee is formed, create a Climate Change Technology Program at the Department of Energy to coordinate work and run programs. The Secretary must also make a public inventory of greenhouse-gas‑reducing technologies, report the results to Congress within 180 days after finishing the inventory, and update it as needed. The Secretary may create an Advisory Committee with specified members (including reps from each National Lab, trade groups, consumers, federal experts, and academics) that must report to the Committee one year after August 8, 2005 and every year after. Using those inputs, the Committee must report to the President and Congress within 18 months after August 8, 2005 on barriers, risks, and a plan for demonstration projects, update that report every 5 years, and recommend ways to remove barriers while considering cost, fiscal and regulatory obstacles, statutes, and intellectual property. The Secretary must set standards for measuring greenhouse gas intensity with NIST after public notice, support demonstration projects (subject to funding and required cost‑sharing) meeting specific performance and public‑private criteria, and may enter cooperative research agreements under federal law. Appropriations are authorized as needed.