Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization

Arnold & Porter, Holland & Knight, Morrison & Foerster, and Wilson Sonsini are working with Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law to draft model legal documents to implement the recommendations from Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, a book edited by Professors Michael Gerrard and John Dernbach. The book identifies more than 1,000 legal options for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. The legal options identified involve federal, state, and local law, as well as private governance. Once drafted, these model legal documents will be made available through an online clearinghouse, established and managed by the Sabin Center, for use and implementation by policymakers at the local, regional, state, and federal levels.