Standing up for a Sustainable World

Edited by Claude Henry, Professor of Sustainable Development, Sciences Po, France, Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Professor in Earth System Science, University of Potsdam, Germany and Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, UK

• Contents:Preface: a collective book project – the last chance? Voluntaryactors in an ecological and economic transition xxiiiPART I INTRODUCTIONSECTION 1 SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUNDS1 Science, society and a sustainable future 3Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern2 Conservation psychology and climate change 10Susan Clayton3 Capitalism and the curse of external effects 24Claude HenrySECTION 2 SETTING THE SCENE4 Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract 48Monica Araya5 The carbon tax in Sweden 59Thomas Sterner6 Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policyreally gets done 68Alice C. Hill7 Climate policy in China: an overview 76Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern8 The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? 103Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel GuerinPART II DEFENDERS9 Introduction to Part II 117Jonathan Watts10 To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest 125Maria do Socorro Costa Silva11 Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes inthe Philippines 128Bobby Chan12 Social justice goes hand in hand with environmentalcampaigns – and not just in Africa 131Phyllis Omido13 Living our values: using art and technology to campaignfor nature in Turkey 134Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba GünalPART III LITIGANTS14 Introduction to Part III 137Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry15 The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolutionthrough the courts 140Marjan Minnesma16 Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legalcampaign for a safe climate 151Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward17 How policymakers imperil coming generations’ future andwhat to do about it 158Ridhima Pandey18 Protecting the rights of future generations through climatelitigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation inthe Colombian Amazon 163Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano19 People’s Climate Case – families and youth take the EU tocourt over its failure to address the climate crisis 171E. Deville, L. DuboisGökşen Şahin20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand’sindigenous Māori peoples 178Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua21 France: L’Affaire du Siècle : the story of a massmobilization for climate 185Marie ToussaintPART IV COMING GENERATIONS ON THE FRONT LINE22 Introduction to Part IV 194Claude Henry23 Fridays For Future – FFF Europe and beyond 196Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria 211Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ 218Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder26 350.org 231William “Bill” McKibben27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? 234Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher educationcould fall between two stools 238Alessia LeféburePART V ENTREPRENEURS29 Introduction to Part V 247Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor30 Catching mighty North Sea winds 251Claude Henry31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India 254Claude Henry32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings 256Dominique Bureau33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles asconvenient as ordinary ones 261Claude Henry34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport incities of Southeast Asia 264Pippo Ranci35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one 271Geoffrey Heal36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions 274Claude Henry37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? 278Claude Henry38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection 283Claude Henry39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment 286Pippo Ranci40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel’s legacy 291Claude Henry41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the needfor technical but also political entrepreneurs 294Sébastien Treyer42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can newbusiness models be based on biodiversity in the agrifoodindustry? 297Sébastien Treyer43 Ethan Brown – the protein revolutionary 301Geoffrey Heal44 How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: thecase of Suruí Indians in the Amazon rainforest – successunder threat 304Claude Henry45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages – Riace inCalabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano 307Pippo Ranci46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the northof France, has become a standard in sustainable development 312Michel BerryPART VI INVESTORS47 Introduction to Part VI 321Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition 325Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik49 The case for fossil fuel divestment 339Stephen B. Heintz50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? 349Alain Grandjean51 China’s pioneering green finance 358Ma JunPART VII COMMUNICATORS52 Introduction to Part VII 368Johan Rockström53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences 374Asmeret Asefaw Berhe54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses 382Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly55 Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than ofclimate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for thecommunication of climate change 394François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination,emotion, action 399Genevieve Guenther57 Climate change: from research to communication 407Jean Jouzel58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics 412Georgina M. Mace59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change 424Edward Maibach60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a processof evolution 431Michael E. Mann61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower 436David R. MontgomeryIndex

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