Achieving Emissions Reductions for Environmental Justice Communities Through Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Excerpt: “There has been tension for years between the EJ and environmental communities over climate change mitigation policy, and most of it has centered on carbon-trading.140 But the two communities, along with several other sectors, including philanthropy, are attempting to find common ground on how to fight this worldwide threat.141 In this Paper, one of the EJ community’s primary goals with respect to climate change mitigation policy is discussed—obtaining emissions reductions in EJ communities— and a specific mechanism is offered to achieve this goal. But this recommendation is not intended to be a solution that ends discussion; instead, it is meant to provoke and promote an open and honest discourse. It is understood that no individual participant or community in the discussion is likely to agree with all the ideas expressed in this Paper, even those participants from the EJ community.”

Citation: Nicky Sheats, Achieving Emissions Reductions for Environmental Justice Communities Through Climate Change Mitigation Policy, 41 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 377 (2017), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol41/iss2/3

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