The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law develops legal techniques to fight climate change, trains law students and lawyers in their use, and provides the public with up-to-date resources on key topics in climate law and regulation. The center works closely with Columbia University's Earth Institute and with governmental, nongovernmental and academic organizations.

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Publications from 2016

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Presentation: Designing and Maintaining an EIS Database: Lessons Learned in Developing Library-based Digital Repositories, Robert T. Cartolano

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Presentation: Developing an Online Database of Environmental Impact Statements, Nilda Mesa

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Presentation: EIS Database Design Considerations, Sritharan Vinayagamoorthy

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Presentation: EIS Database Technical Considerations: Geospatial, Kytt MacManus

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Presentation: EIS User Case Study: Legal Research and Advocacy, Jessica A. Wentz

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Presentation: Environmental Law: Time to Reboot, James Gustave Speth

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Presentation: Northwestern University Transportation Library EIS Collection – Our History, Roberto A. Sarmiento

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Presentation: Use Cases for EIS Databases, Malanding S. Jaiteh

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Report: Climate Change and Human Trafficking After the Paris Climate Agreement, Michael Gerrard

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Report/Policy Paper: Conference Report: Climate Change and Sustainable Investment in Natural Resources: From Consensus to Action, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Publications from 2015

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Article: A Legal Approach to the Improvement of Energy Efficiency Measures for the Existing Building Stock in the United States Based on European Experience, Teresa Parejo-Navajas

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Article: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Waste Dump in the Pacific, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: An Analysis of Senator McConnell's Letter Urging States Not to Comply with EPA's Clean Power Plan, Daniel Selmi

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Article: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Built Environment under NEPA and State EIA Laws: A Survey of Current Practices and Recommendations for Model Protocols, Jessica A. Wentz

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Article: Draft NEPA Guidance Requires Agencies to Consider Both GHG Emissions and the Impacts of Climate Change on Proposed Actions, Jessica A. Wentz

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Article: Reconciling International Investment Law and Climate Change Policy: Potential Liability for Climate Measures Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Meredith Wilensky

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Article: Save Birds Now or Birds Later, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Sustainable Development and the Brazilian Judge, Gabriel Wedy

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Note: Designing a Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility: Key Issues for COP 21, Jessica A. Wentz and Michael Burger

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Paper: Climate Change and International Peace and Security: Possible Roles for the U.N. Security Council in Addressing Climate Change, Dane Warren

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Paper: Climate Change in the Courts: An Assessment of Non-U.S. Climate Litigation, Meredith Wilensky

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Paper: Electricity Sector Adaptation to Heat Waves, Sofia Aivalioti

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Paper: Federal Implementation Plans for Controlling Carbon Emissions from Existing Power Plants: A Primer Exploring the Issues, Daniel Selmi

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Paper: Heat in US Prisons and Jails: Corrections and the Challenge of Climate Change, Daniel W.E. Holt

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Paper: How Much Does the Existing Regulatory Patchwork Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?, Justin Gundlach

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Paper: Legal Tools for Climate Adaptation Advocacy: Clean Water Act Permitting and Funding Programs, Channing R. Jones

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Paper: Legal Tools for Climate Adaptation Advocacy: Flood Insurance, Matt Sienkiewicz

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Paper: Legal Tools for Climate Adaptation Advocacy: NEPA, Jennier Klein and Ethan Strell

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Paper: Legal Tools for Climate Adaptation Advocacy: Securities Law, Nina Hart

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Paper: Potential Liability of Governments for Failure to Prepare for Climate Change, Jennier Klein

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Paper: States Should Think Twice Before Refusing Any Response to EPA's Clean Power Rules, Daniel Selmi

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Report: Climate Change and Human Rights, Michael Burger and Jessica A. Wentz

Publications from 2014

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Article: Deluge of New York City Laws Guards Against Flooding, Protects Environment, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Federalism Obstacles to Advancing Renewable Energy, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Narratives in Conflicts: Alaska Natives and Offshore Drilling in the Arctic, Michael Burger

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Article: New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2013, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: New York State Leading on Utility Climate Change Adaptation, Ethan Strell and Christine Fazio

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Article: Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation, Casswell F. Holloway, Carter H. Strickland Jr., Michael B. Gerrard, and Daniel M. Firger

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Article: Survey of 2013 Cases Under State Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: US Federal Climate Change Law in Obama’s Second Term, Michael B. Gerrard and Shelley Welton

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Note: Climate Change and Forced Displacement, Jessica A. Wentz

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Paper: Authority of Pacific Island States to Regulate Greenhouse Gases from the International Shipping Sector, Meredith Wilensky

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Paper: Flag State Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Regulatory Authority of Flags of Convenience and Franchised Registries, Alyssa Kutner and Meredith Wilensky

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Paper: Moving at a Glacial Pace: What Can State Attorneys General Do about SEC Inattention to Nondisclosure of Financially Material Risks arising from Climate Change?, Nina Hart

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Paper: Reverse Environmental Assessment Analysis for the Adaptation of Projects, Plans, and Programs to the Effects of Climate Change in the EU Evaluation of the Proposal for an EIA Directive, Teresa Parejo-Navajas

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Paper: The Day After Tomorrow: A Survey Of How Gulf Coast State Utility Commissions and Utilities are Preparing for Future Storms, Katherine Carey

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Working Paper: Climate Change Securities Disclosures in Australia, Amanda Liu

Publications from 2013

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Article: Climate Change Action Without Congress, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Courts Rulings Accept Climate Science, Michael Gerrard

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Article: Environmental Law/Environmental Literature, Michael Burger

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Article: Federal Executive Actions to Combat Climate Change, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Fracking and Federalism Choice, Michael Burger

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Article: Michael Bloomberg's Environmental Record, Bill de Blasio's Promises, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Recovering from the Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs and Cyborg Civilization, Michael Burger

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Article: Reducing Legal Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Survey of 2012 Cases Under State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: The (Re)Federalization of Fracking Regulation, Michael Burger

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Article: Will Greenhouse Gas Rules Prohibit New Coal Power Plants?, Christine Fazio and Ethan Strell

Book: Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate, Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier

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Paper: Carbon Capture and Storage Policy in China, Yan Gu

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Paper: Compilation of International Authorities Supporting Specific Measures to Combat Climate Change, Fiona Kinniburgh

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Paper: Digest of Hydraulic Fracturing Cases, Smita Walavalkar

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Paper: Encouraging Energy Efficiency through the Clean Air Act, Moneen Nasmith

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Paper: Envisioning Resilient Electrical Infrastructure: A Policy Framework for Incorporating Future Climate Change into Electricity Sector Planning, Sam C.A. Nierop

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Paper: Federal Regulatory Barriers to Grid-Deployed Energy Storage, Andrew Meyer

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Paper: "Green" Product Procurement Policy in the European Union: Treatment of Lifecycle Carbon Analysis and Environmental PPM Restrictions, Shawna Ganley

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Paper: Legal Issues in Integrated, Multi-Pollutant Planning for Energy and Air Quality, Shawna Ganley and Shelley Welton

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Paper: NEPA and Downstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions of U.S. Coal Exports, Elizabeth Sheargold and Smita Walavalkar

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Paper: Technology Transfer and Dissemination Under the UNFCCC: Achievements and New Perspectives, Stéphanie Chuffart

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Report: Discussion of Climate Change-Related Water Impacts in Federal Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), January-September 2012, Cathy Li

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Report: Managed Coastal Retreat: A Legal Handbook on Shifting Development Away from Vulnerable Areas, Anne Siders

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Report: Regulating Electricity Imports into RGGI: Toward a Legal, Workable Solution, Shelley Welton, Michael Gerrard, and Jason Munster

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Report: State Hazard Mitigation Plans and Climate Change: Rating the States, Matthew Babcock

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Report: The Opportunities for and Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York City, Alexis Saba, Bianca Howard, Michael Gerrard, and Vijay Modi

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Working Paper: Red China Going Green: The Emergence and Current Development of Carbon Emissions Trading in the World's Largest Carbon Emitter, Xiaotang Wang

Publications from 2012

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Article: At Issue: Energy Efficiency, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: DC Circuit Clears Path for GHG Rules, but Politics Remain, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: FERC Order 1000 as a New Tool for Promoting Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Shelley Welton and Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Hurricane Katrina Decision Highlights Liability for Decaying Infrastructure, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Mexico's General Climate Change Law, Michael B. Gerrard and Anne Siders

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Article: Obama Reelection Clears Path for Numerous New EPA Regulations, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Recent Developments Under State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Reverse Environmental Impact Analysis: Effect of Climate Change on Projects, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: Science Heads List of Candidate Debate Queries, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: State Dynamism, Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles to Cross-Border Cap-and-Trade, Shelley Welton

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Article: State Public Utility Commissions' Powers to Advance Energy Efficiency, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: The Environment in New York State, Michael B. Gerrard and Claire H. Woods

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Article: The Law on What Documents Scientists Must Keep and Disclose, Michael B. Gerrard and Elizabeth Sheargold

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Article: What Litigation of a Climate Nuisance Suit Might Look Like, Michael B. Gerrard

Book: The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: U.S. and International Aspects, Michael B. Gerrard and Katrina Fischer Kuh

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Paper: Analysis of California, Washington, and New York Insurer Climate Risk Surveys for the 2011 Reporting Year, Irene Shulman

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Paper: Encouraging Energy Efficiency through NEPA Comments, Adam Reidel

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Paper: Legal Issues in Regulating Imports in State and Regional Cap and Trade Programs, Erin Parlar, Michael Babakitis, and Shelley Welton

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Paper: Livestock and Climate Change – Annotated Bibliography, Julia Christian, Andrew Kirchner, Derek Nelson, and Jessica A. Wentz

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Report: Consideration of Climate Change in Federal EISs, 2009-2011, Patrick Woolsey

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Report: Court Ruling Gives Green Light to EPA GHG Regulations – Positive for Natural Gas, Renewables, and Efficient Vehicles, Mark Fulton, Michael B. Gerrard, Jake Baker, and Lucy Cotter

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Report: Public Utilities Commissions & Energy Efficiency: A Handbook of Legal and Regulatory Tools for Commissioners & Advocates, Shelley Welton, Chen Xu, Brian Troxler, Chao Huang, Andrew Kirchner, Krista Yacovone, and Maria Hristova

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Working Paper: Bundling Solutions for Financing Building Energy Efficiency Retrofit Projects in Residential and Commercial Buildings, Michael Kerstetter

Publications from 2011

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Article: 2010 Developments Under State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard

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Article: 'American Electric Power’ Leaves Open Many Questions for Climate Litigation, Michael B. Gerrard