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82 Brook. L. Rev. 605 (2016-2017)
The Political Economy of Decarbonization: A Research Agenda

handle is hein.journals/brklr82 and id is 623 raw text is: The Political Economy of Decarbonization A RESEARCH AGENDA Eric Biber,t Nina Kelseytt & Jonas Meckling* INTRODUCTION Even nonextreme outcomes from global warming will cause a variety of effects on human and global ecosystems. These include rises in sea level that impact major cities and densely populated delta areas, heat waves that kill thousands of people, changes in precipitation and temperature that reduce agricultural yields, shifts in species ranges and numbers that destabilize ecosystems around the world, acidification of the ocean that destroys coral reefs and plankton species that are the foundation for marine food chains, and more. But to avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity is faced with the daunting problem of fundamentally changing the processes by which it obtains and uses the energy needed to sustain a modern industrial society. Society must shift from an economic system built on carbon-based fossil fuels and the industries associated with them toward an economic system based on alternative sources of energy like biofuels, hydropower, solar, wind, and perhaps nuclear. Such a shift entails major transformations in areas ranging from industry t Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley. tt Assistant Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, Center for International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy, George Washington University. * Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, University of California, Berkeley. We thank Michael Gerrard, Gregg Macey, David Spence, and Jim Rossi; participants at the Trager Symposium on social theory and a post-carbon future at Brooklyn Law School; participants at a workshop on the future of climate policy and climate politics hosted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Studies; and the editors at the Brooklyn Law Review for helpful comments. Special thanks to Eric DeBellis, Taylor Reeves, Laura Kristin Wittschurky, Taylor Page, and Stephanie Kover for research assistance. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the AHEAD research group, Resources for the Future, and Climateworks. 605

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