The Environmental Law Institute has made available for free download here a 160-page pdf of the summary volume of LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, edited by Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach. The full 1,200-page book, with more than 1,000 recommendations for federal, state, local and private action, and detailed legal analysis of all of them, will be out in March. See here. The summary volume has thumbnail sketches of all 35 chapters and the key recommendations from each. The chapters and their authors are listed below.
I. CONTEXT
Introduction – John C. Dernbach
1. Economic and Technical Feasibility of Deep Decarbonization in the United States – James H. Williams, David Ismay, Ryan A. Jones, Gabe Kwok, Ben Haley
II. CROSS-CUTTING APPROACHES TO REDUCING EMISSIONS
2. Carbon Pricing – Shi-Ling Hsu
3. Behavior – Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern
4. Technological Innovation – Gary E. Marchant
5. Financing Large-Scale Projects – Robert Freedman, Monica Lamb, Claire Melvin
6. Financing at the Grid Edge – C. Baird Brown
7. Materials Consumption and Solid Waste – Michael Burger
8. International Trade – Elizabeth Trujullo
III. ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION, AND FUEL SWITCHING IN BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY
9. Lighting, Appliances and Other Equipment – Kit Kennedy
10. New Buildings – Lee Paddock, Caitlin McCoy
11. Existing Buildings – James Charles Smith
12. Industrial Sector – Gregg P. Macey
IV. ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION, AND FUEL SWITCHING IN TRANSPORTATION
13. Transforming Transportation Demand – Trip Pollard
14. Light-Duty Vehicles – Amy L. Stein, Joshua P. Fershee
15. Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Freight – Andrea Hudson Campbell, Avi B. Zevin, Keturah A. Brown
16. Aviation – Aoife O’Leary
17. Shipping – Aoife O’Leary
V. ELECTRICITY DECARBONIZATION
18. Utility-Scale Renewable Generating Capacity – Michael B. Gerrard
19. Distributed Renewable Energy – K.K. DuVivier
20. Transmission, Distribution and Storage; Grid Integration – Alexandra B. Klass
21. Nuclear Energy – David A. Repka, Tyson R. Smith
22. Hydropower – Charles R. Sensiba, Michael A. Swiger, Sharon L. White
23. Electricity Charges, Mandates, and Subsidies – Jim Rossi
24. Phasing Out Fossil Fuels for the Generation of Electricity – Steve Weissman, with Stephen Herzenberg and Michael B. Gerrard
VI. FUEL DECARBONIZATION
25. Bioenergy Feedstocks – Blake Hudson, Uma Outka
26. Production and Delivery of Low-Carbon Gaseous Fuels – Romany M. Webb, Melinda Taylor
27. Production and Delivery of Bioenergy Fuels – James M. Van Nostrand
VII. CARBON CAPTURE AND NEGATIVE EMISSIONS
28. Carbon Capture and Sequestration – Wendy B. Jacobs, Michael T. Craig
29. Negative Emissions Technologies and Direct Air Capture – Tracy Hester
30. Agriculture – Peter H. Lehner, Nathan A. Rosenberg
31. Forestry – Frederico Cheever with Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., Robert L. Fischman
VIII. NON-CARBON DIOXIDE CLIMATE POLLUTANTS
32. Black Carbon -- Melissa Powers
33. Methane – Steven Ferrey with Romany M. Webb
34. Fluorinated Gases – Nathan Borford-Parnell, Stephen Oliver Anderson, Durwood Zaelke
35. Nitrous Oxide – Jessica Wentz, David Kanter
These new books from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law are also available:
Michael B. Gerrard & Tracy Hester, eds., Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Michael Burger & Justin Gundlach, eds., Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law
Sincerely,
Michael B. Gerrard
Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice
Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York, New York 10027
(212) 854-3287
michael.gerrard@law.columbia.edu
Twitter: @MichaelGerrard
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