Summary
Climate Change Risk Management Act of 2001 - Revamps the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to develop and implement a national strategy to manage the risks posed by potential climate change whose goal shall be consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a long-term Climate Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Program to foster technologies and practices that: (1) reduce or avoid anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; (2) remove and sequester greenhouse gases from emissions streams; and (3) remove and sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for a pilot program for financial assistance for qualifying international energy deployment projects; (2) assess the status and readiness (including potential commercialization) of each energy technology and any regulatory or market barriers to deployment; and (3) establish an information clearinghouse to facilitate the transfer and dissemination of the results of federally funded research and development activities being carried out on energy technology.
Revises requirements for the national greenhouse gas emissions registry.
Establishes in the Department of Energy an Office of Applied Energy Technology and Greenhouse Gas Management.
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