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It Takes A Global Sustainability Movement, John C. Dernbach
It Takes A Global Sustainability Movement, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Next Generation Recycling And Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania's 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach
Next Generation Recycling And Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania's 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Next Generation Recycling & Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania’S 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach
Next Generation Recycling & Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania’S 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
The Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling, and Waste Reduction Act (Act 101 of 1988) keeps millions of tons of materials out of landfills every year. It supports a multi-billion dollar industry that provides tens of thousands of jobs. It also probably affects human environmental behavior more than any other statute in state history. And it reduces greenhouse gas emissions at the same time because of the materials and energy that are saved.
Yet the program is now rudderless and drifting. While the Act contains specific goals, those goals have either been met or ignored, and no new goals have been set. …
Energy Efficiency And Conservation: New Legal Tools And Opportunities, John Dernbach, Robert Mckinstry, Darin Lowder
Energy Efficiency And Conservation: New Legal Tools And Opportunities, John Dernbach, Robert Mckinstry, Darin Lowder
John C. Dernbach
Many new and ambitious energy efficiency and conservation laws are being enacted at all levels of government—and with greater financial incentives than provided previously. These innovations are intended to overcome or minimize market barriers such as principal-agent problems, information and transaction costs, high internal discount rates, and up-front capital needs that discourage cost-saving investments. Innovations such as public-private partnerships also require significant legal input and creativity for the client to reap the often remarkably large energy and cost savings. This article reviews a range of these tools, especially financial legal mechanisms, that could help significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption.
Cap-And-Trade Legislation, John C. Dernbach
Progress Toward Sustainability: A Report Card And A Recommended Agenda, John Dernbach
Progress Toward Sustainability: A Report Card And A Recommended Agenda, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Environmental Law: The Policy Implications Of The Reaction To Climate Change, Jeffrey Sutton, Jonathan Adler, John Dernbach, Steven Hayward, Jeremy Rabkin
Environmental Law: The Policy Implications Of The Reaction To Climate Change, Jeffrey Sutton, Jonathan Adler, John Dernbach, Steven Hayward, Jeremy Rabkin
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
National Governance: Still Stumbling Toward Sustainability, John C. Dernbach
National Governance: Still Stumbling Toward Sustainability, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Navigating The U.S. Transition To Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges With Appropriate Legal Tools, John Dernbach
Navigating The U.S. Transition To Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges With Appropriate Legal Tools, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
Sustainable development would require the United States to maintain and improve human prosperity while at the same time greatly reducing its consumption of energy, materials, water, and land. The scope of the challenge includes, but is not limited to, climate change. This Article suggests the elements of a legal structure for achieving sustainability.
Because achieving sustainable development is a significant learning experience, the United States will need to employ a form of governance—reflexive governance—that requires constant learning and supportive citizens and stakeholders who are also working to ensure sustainability in their own activities. The two basic problems reflexive governance must …
Achieving Early And Substantial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under A Post-Kyoto Agreement, John Dernbach
Achieving Early And Substantial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under A Post-Kyoto Agreement, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
This article explains why policy makers should seriously consider substantial early reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as a part of any post-Kyoto framework, and sets out suggested elements of a framework for early action in a post-Kyoto agreement. Substantial early reductions are needed because of the growing urgency of the climate change science, the precautionary approach identified in the Framework Convention on Climate Change as a decision-making principle, the fact that cost-effective measures are now available, and the significant non-climate benefits (security, economic, social, and environmental) that can be achieved by implementing them. As a practical matter, too, long-term greenhouse …
Harnessing Individual Behavior To Address Climate Change: Options For Congress, John C. Dernbach
Harnessing Individual Behavior To Address Climate Change: Options For Congress, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Stabilizing And Then Reducing U.S. Energy Consumption: Legal And Policy Tools For Efficiency And Conservation, John Dernbach
Stabilizing And Then Reducing U.S. Energy Consumption: Legal And Policy Tools For Efficiency And Conservation, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
Rising global demand for energy, high energy prices, climate change, and the threat of terrorism all point to the need for greater energy efficiency and conservation in the United States. While technological innovation is plainly needed, our laws and institutional arrangements must also play an important role. The United States has scores of legal and policy tools from which to choose to improve energy efficiency and curb energy consumption. This article evaluates a handful of these tools: transit-oriented development; fuel taxation; real-time pricing for electricity use; public benefit funds; improved efficiency in existing residential and commercial buildings; and expanded use …
Overcoming The Behavioral Impetus For Greater U.S. Energy Consumption, John C. Dernbach
Overcoming The Behavioral Impetus For Greater U.S. Energy Consumption, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach
Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Toward A Climate Change Strategy For Pennsylvania, John C. Dernbach
Toward A Climate Change Strategy For Pennsylvania, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Symposium Facing Climate Change: Opportunity And Tool For States, John C. Dernbach
Introduction, Symposium Facing Climate Change: Opportunity And Tool For States, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Making Sustainable Development Happen: From Johannesburg To Albany, John C. Dernbach
Making Sustainable Development Happen: From Johannesburg To Albany, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Pursuing Sustainable Communities: Looking Back, Looking Forward, John C. Dernbach, Scott Bernstein
Pursuing Sustainable Communities: Looking Back, Looking Forward, John C. Dernbach, Scott Bernstein
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality And Multiple Facets Of Integrated Decisionmaking, John C. Dernbach
Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality And Multiple Facets Of Integrated Decisionmaking, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Why Lawyers Should Care, John C. Dernbach
Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions, John Dernbach
Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach
Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Sustainable Development: Now More Than Ever, John C. Dernbach
Sustainable Development: Now More Than Ever, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
This Article explains how and why sustainable development emerged as a conceptual framework, the basic concepts or principles on which this framework is based, why sustainability is primarily a matter for domestic national governance, and why the United States needs to play a leading role in fostering sustainable development. Because "sustainable" modifies "development," it is first important to understand what development means. Since the end of World War II, development has included at least four related elements: peace and security, economic development, social development, and supportive national governance. Each element is reflected in major multilateral treaties that provide a common …
Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study Of Increasing Transparency For Fiscal Policy, John Dernbach, Doug Koplow
Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study Of Increasing Transparency For Fiscal Policy, John Dernbach, Doug Koplow
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
From Rio To Johannesburg: Implementing Sustainable Development At The Global And Local Scale, John Dernbach
From Rio To Johannesburg: Implementing Sustainable Development At The Global And Local Scale, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Our Common Future, American Style (Reviewing President’S Council On Sustainable Development, Sustainable America (1996)), John C. Dernbach
Our Common Future, American Style (Reviewing President’S Council On Sustainable Development, Sustainable America (1996)), John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
The Other Ninety-Six Percent, John C. Dernbach
The Global Environment Facility: Financing The Treaty Obligations Of Developing Nations, John C. Dernbach
The Global Environment Facility: Financing The Treaty Obligations Of Developing Nations, John C. Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Book Review (Reviewing Bruce A. Ackerman & William T. Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air (1981)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au
Book Review (Reviewing Bruce A. Ackerman & William T. Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air (1981)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Legislative Note, Metallic Mining And Reclamation In Michigan: Environmental Management As A Gentler Approach, John Dernbach
Legislative Note, Metallic Mining And Reclamation In Michigan: Environmental Management As A Gentler Approach, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.