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? Voluntary
actors in an ecological and economic transition xxiii

PART I INTRODUCTION
SECTION 1 SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUNDS
1 Science, society and a sustainable future 3
Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern
2 Conservation psychology and climate change 10
Susan Clayton
3 Capitalism and the curse of external effects 24
Claude Henry

SECTION 2 SETTING THE SCENE
4 Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract 48
Monica Araya
5 The carbon tax in Sweden 59
Thomas Sterner
6 Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy
really gets done 68
Alice C. Hill
7 Climate policy in China: an overview 76
Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern
8 The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? 103
Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guerin

PART II DEFENDERS
9 Introduction to Part II 117
Jonathan Watts
10 To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest 125
Maria do Socorro Costa Silva
11 Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes in
the Philippines 128
Bobby Chan
12 Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental
campaigns – and not just in Africa 131
Phyllis Omido
13 Living our values: using art and technology to campaign
for nature in Turkey 134
Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal

PART III LITIGANTS
14 Introduction to Part III 137
Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry
15 The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution
through the courts 140
Marjan Minnesma
16 Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal
campaign for a safe climate 151
Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward
17 How policymakers imperil coming generations’ future and
what to do about it 158
Ridhima Pandey
18 Protecting the rights of future generations through climate
litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in
the Colombian Amazon 163
Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano
19 People’s Climate Case – families and youth take the EU to
court over its failure to address the climate crisis 171E. Deville, L. Dubois
Gökşen Şahin
20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand’s
indigenous Māori peoples 178
Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua
21 France: L’Affaire du Siècle : the story of a mass
mobilization for climate 185
Marie Toussaint

PART IV COMING GENERATIONS ON THE FRONT LINE
22 Introduction to Part IV 194
Claude Henry
23 Fridays For Future – FFF Europe and beyond 196
Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden
24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria 211
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu
25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ 218
Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder
26 350.org 231
William “Bill” McKibben
27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? 234
Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois
28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education
could fall between two stools 238
Alessia Lefébure

PART V ENTREPRENEURS
29 Introduction to Part V 247
Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor
30 Catching mighty North Sea winds 251
Claude Henry
31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India 254
Claude Henry
32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings 256
Dominique Bureau
33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as
convenient as ordinary ones 261
Claude Henry
34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in
cities of Southeast Asia 264
Pippo Ranci
35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one 271
Geoffrey Heal
36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions 274
Claude Henry
37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? 278
Claude Henry
38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection 283
Claude Henry
39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment 286
Pippo Ranci
40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel’s legacy 291
Claude Henry
41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need
for technical but also political entrepreneurs 294
Sébastien Treyer
42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new
business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood
industry? 297
Sébastien Treyer
43 Ethan Brown – the protein revolutionary 301
Geoffrey Heal
44 How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the
case of Suruí Indians in the Amazon rainforest – success
under threat 304
Claude Henry
45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages – Riace in
Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano 307
Pippo Ranci
46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north
of France, has become a standard in sustainable development 312
Michel Berry

PART VI INVESTORS
47 Introduction to Part VI 321
Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor
48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition 325
Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik
49 The case for fossil fuel divestment 339
Stephen B. Heintz
50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? 349
Alain Grandjean
51 China’s pioneering green finance 358
Ma Jun

PART VII COMMUNICATORS
52 Introduction to Part VII 368
Johan Rockström
53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences 374
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses 382
Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly
55 Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than of
climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the
communication of climate change 394
François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux
56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination,
emotion, action 399
Genevieve Guenther
57 Climate change: from research to communication 407
Jean Jouzel
58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics 412
Georgina M. Mace
59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change 424
Edward Maibach
60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process
of evolution 431
Michael E. Mann
61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower 436
David R. Montgomery

Index