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The Carbon-Neutral Individual
(New York University Law Review, 2007)
Reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change will require leveling off greenhouse gas emissions over the short term and reducing emissions by an estimated sixty to eighty percent over the long term. To achieve these ...
Individual Carbon Emissions
(UCLA Law Review, 2008)
The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
Micro-Offsets and Macro-Transformation
(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2009)
We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by ...
The New Wal-Mart Effect
(UCLA Law Review, 2007)
This Article argues that networks of private contracts serve a public regulatory function in the global environmental arena. These networks fill the regulatory gaps created when global trade increases the exploitation of ...
Apples for Oranges
(Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)
Over the last decade, there has been a sea change in environmental law and policy, marked by growing interest in market-based instruments of environmental protection. In particular, approaches that explicitly commodify ...
Climate Change
(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2008)
A substantial proportion of the United States population is at or below the poverty level, yet many of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures proposed or adopted to date will increase the costs of energy, motor ...
Climate Change: The China Problem
(Southern California Law Review, 2008)
The central problem confronting climate change scholars and policymakers is how to create incentives for China and the United States to make prompt, large emissions reductions. China recently surpassed the United States ...