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Climate Change And Consumption, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Douglas A. Kysar
Climate Change And Consumption, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Douglas A. Kysar
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
To achieve the level of greenhouse gas emissions reductions called for by climate change experts, officials and policy analysts may need to develop an unfamiliar category of regulated entity: the consumer. Although industrial, manufacturing, retail, and service sector firms undoubtedly will remain the focus of climate change policy in the near term, individuals and households exert a greenhouse footprint that seems simply too large for policymakers to ignore in the long term. This paper, written as a foreword for the Environmental Law Reporter's symposium issue, "Climate Change and Consumption," emerges from an interdisciplinary conference of the same title held at …