Climate Policy and Energy Services

In the climate policy and energy areas, ICF International offers results and solutions to a broad range of clients in the Newly Independent States (NIS), as well as the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Our clients in the NIS include multi-lateral organizations, private enterprises, and public entities. Worldwide, we work with new integrated energy enterprises, power developers, regulated transmission and distribution companies, unregulated enterprises, municipal power authorities, energy traders and marketers, oil and gas exploration and production companies, industry associations, investors, financial institutions, law firms, and regulators.

Since 1987, ICF International has been at the forefront of preparing leading-edge climate change technical and policy analyses, identifying viable market solutions, and building real-world management tools. Recent science presents a compelling case that emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from human activities are inducing changes in climate throughout the world.

To ensure a sustainable future, there is a great need to understand and manage GHG emissions in ways that promote economic growth. As the climate change debate and private sector market solutions evolve, ICF International continues to offer its clients around the globe unparalleled analytical, policy, and business management services.

In the NIS, we have been at the forefront of implementing climate change policy and reducing Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Our services in the NIS are fully supported by more than 230 climate change specialists at ICF International. We have the technical depth and historic experience to provide integrated public- and private-sector solutions. We understand the best practices, effective policy options, least-cost mitigation options, and credible management strategies for all GHG emissions, as well as the impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation strategies.

Services

ICF International's services include developing and implementing flexible strategies, supporting litigation, delivering innovative e-business solutions, analyzing government regulations, valuing assets, and assessing market conditions. Our services to the energy industry include the following:

• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Analysis
• Carbon Market Services
• Stratospheric Ozone Protection Analysis
• Wholesale Power Market Assessment and Modeling
• Electric Transmission Market Assessment and Modeling

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Analysis

ICF International offers a broad range of analysis of policies, technologies, and programs to reduce GHG emissions, at the international, national, state, provincial, and local levels. For more than 20 years, ICF has performed mitigation analyses for public and private clients related to climate, stratospheric ozone, and air pollution.

In crafting GHG mitigation programs, decision makers are challenged with balancing many factors. At the highest level, they need to balance the need for significant emission reductions with the need for a healthy economy. The decision factors are complex, and involve cost-effectiveness, equity across the various emitting sectors, implementation and compliance issues, uncertainty, trade effects, and selection and design of policy instruments (e.g., cap and trade systems, voluntary programs).

In Russia/NIS, ICF has prepared a wide-range of mitigation studies, including detailed cost-benefit analysis of the mitigation potential in the coal mining, oil and gas, and aluminum sectors.

In the climate impacts and adaptation area, ICF International has more than 10 years of experience providing strategic advice and support for projects dealing with climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to clients across the globe.

Global climate change is expected to have pervasive and, in many cases, profound impacts on human populations, natural resources, and economic sectors. Since some of this warming is unavoidable, planning for the effects of climate change is needed to facilitate successful adaptation to these impacts, as well as to avoid exacerbating adverse impacts by undertaking maladaptative actions.