Achievable Climate Solutions
Our Mission
At Climate Law & Strategy (CLS), we are dedicated to achievable climate change solutions. Our extensive industry experience will ensure all parties make the best contribution to address climate change.
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Our perspective is based on extensive experience in the generation, transmission and delivery of electricity, including fossil, nuclear and renewables. We provided advice on all air emissions including GHGs. My most relevant experience is derived from advice on the CAA Acid Rain SO2 market. This market is the most successful emissions market to date. Current carbon markets cannot repeat this success. Chess pieces like natural resource sequestration must drive any successful climate strategy.
Carbon Markets
Climate Law & Strategy is focused on legal strategies to make global climate change efforts more effective. For better or worse, the Paris Agreement is the Climate Change Constitution and should be treated as such. The COP process is highly flawed and focused primarily on the transfer of funds to countries for adaption. The Article 6 carbon market work can create incentives to reduce GHGs. Answering the question of whether to sanction carbon markets at the individual country and regional levels is important. As many with emissions market experience are pointing out, making a carbon market a true market is almost impossible. Markets work because there is a constraint on amount of tradable commodites and enforceable rules to govern all aspects of the market. Problems of equivalency and leakage maybe unsolvable. CL&S has 30 years of experience with the laws and regulations that govern air pollution including GHGs. We seek to help the world apply law to our climate crisis.
Future of U.S. Role
The real question is whether Congress or EPA should make laws that reduce GHGs and adopt other climate change strategies or should EPA. Thus far, EPA’s GHGs rules promulgated under each political party have not survived legal challenge. While these legal issues churn, I am in favor of new coalitions crossing state, ngo, industry and other lines to step forward internationally. To date, our role the Paris Agreement and otherwise hase been voluntary and financial commitments minimal. The U.S. must step forward regardless of the position of the U.S. government.
Why engage me?
Because, after 30 years of providing advice on point and non-point source air pollution, I bring a practical and unique perspective. My experience with emissions markets provides a critical lens to the effectiveness of carbon markets versus monetizing capture and sequestration of carbon emissions by natural resources like old growth forests.
Climate Law & Strategy, PLLC
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