Climate Solutions

A Citizen's Guide

by Peter Barnes

Foreword by Bill McKibben

Table of Contents

Solving the climate crisis is up to us | Bill McKibben
One last chance | Author’s Preface
About this guide

Part 1 | Questions

• What’s the problem?
• What makes good climate policy?
• What are the goals?
• What’s fair?
• Who owns the sky?
• Who are the players?
• Who pays whom?
• Will it last?
• What about technology?
• We can do it

Part 2 | Solutions

• Four tools
• Carbon taxes
• Carbon caps
• Regulations
• Investments
• What states can do
• What cities can do
• Federal preemption
• Cool ideas

Part 3 | Carbon Capping 101

• Three varieties of cap-and-trade
• A seat in Exxon Stadium
• Lessons from Europe
• Protecting family incomes with equal dividends
• Giveaway of the century?
• Upstream, downstream
• Safety valves and their alternatives
• Offsets aren’t permits
• CheatNeutral
• Resolving the carbon price dilemma
• Carbon capping in a nutshell
• Carbon capping EZ Guide

Part 4 | And Finally...

• An American climate solution
• What about China?
• Beyond Kyoto
• Current federal legislation
• Legacy industries on climate policy
• Faith principles on climate policy

Additional Resources
Internet resources
Groups to connect with
Glossary
About the author
Acknowledgements
About the Tomales Bay Institute