The following documents were commissioned by the Presidential Climate Action Project to inform the development of the plan and contain even more detail than the chapters themselves.
The Economic Case for Climate Action By L. Hunter Lovins
When you meet your maker, what will you talk about? Will you proudly discuss your rate of return? Or how you enhanced shareholder value? What will your legacy be? The way most companies do business, most communities operate, and most of us live will leave a legacy of an environmentally and financially impoverished planet. We can, we must do better. [PDF/678KB]
One Hundred Days of Climate Action
By David W. Orr; Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College
"Here's the inconvenient truth: We have not even begun to be serious about the costs, the effort and the scale of change that will be required to shift our country, and eventually the world to a largely emissions-free energy infrastructure over the next 50 years." [PDF/67KB]
Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Improved Energy Efficiency in Buildings
A paper by Joe Loper, Steve Capanna, Selin Devranoglu and Nils Petermann of the Alliance to Save Energy
Commisioned by the PCAP [PDF/678KB]
A plan for collaboration between the world's major developing and developed nations to reduce GHG emissions and to keep atmospheric concentrations below 450 ppm.
http://www.env.duke.edu/institute/g8plus5.pdf [PDF/1.4MB]
Have we already passed the point of no return?
A PCAP analysis by Susan Joy Hassol. [PDF/1.64MB]
Nature's Trust: A Paradigm for Natural Resources Stewardship
By Mary Christina Wood
P.K. Knight Professor, University of Oregon, School of Law
[MS WORD/52KB] 
[PDF/29KB] [.mp3] An NPR interview w/ Ms. Wood.
Natural Terrestrial Sequestration (NTS): An Exemplar for Natural Resources Trust Stewardship
By Alison Burchell
Geologist, Sustainable Assignments Consultant, Boulder, Colorado
[MS WORD/81KB] [PDF/38KB]
APPENDIX I: Natural Resources Trust and Stewardship
Proposed PCAP Items and Timeline
By Mary Christine Wood and Alison Burchell
[MS WORD/43KB] [PDF/38KB]
National Climate Policy: Choosing the Right Architecture
By Robert Repetto
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
United States Climate Policy: Using Market-Based Strategies to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
A June 2007 Report By Kevin Doran and Alaine Ginnochio
of The Energy & Environmental Security Initiative University Of Colorado Law School
Energy Policy Attachment 1
Status of Energy Technologies
Chapter on International Development and Trade Policies and Programs Related to Climate Change
By Daphne Wysham, October 19, 2007
Reducing Government Energy Waste
A Report from the Alliance to Save Energy
Combating Global Warming Through Sustainable Surface Transportation Policy
Prepared by The Center for Neighborhood Technology
[PDF/766KB]
Attachement 1
Transportation and Land Use Chapter Appendices
Attachement 2
Transportation and Land Use Chapter Appendices (Excel)
Drafts of Expanded PCAP Chapters