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Get Involved: Drafting

To date more than 22 law firms and nearly a dozen individual attorneys (including retired judges, retired lawyers, law professors and in house counsel) have participated in drafting model legislation for this website. Given the number of recommendations and the breadth of the Project, however, firms and individual attorneys are still needed to provide pro bono legal services to turn the recommendations from the book, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, into model legal documents (laws, regulations, ordinances, lease provisions) that will be made available on this website.

Here is a link to a Stanford Law Review article by Michael Gerrard describing this project and The Role of Lawyers in Decarbonizing Society more broadly.

Firms and individual attorneys can participate as drafters in two ways: by taking responsibility for (i) a chapter and all recommendations within that chapter; or (ii) one or more recommendations selected from a chapter. In selecting either a chapter or individual recommendation(s) from a chapter, consult with Rick Horsch (contact details below). Here is more detail on the two approaches:

Select a chapter:

Select a chapter for which to take responsibility, proceed to prioritize recommendations within that chapter, and then draft the model legal documents according to their priority. The following chapters are currently available:

6. (Financing at the Grid Edge) (Five recommendations claimed. All others available)
9. (Lighting Appliances and Other Equipment)
11. (Existing Buildings) (Most recommendations still available)
12. (Industrial Sector)
13. (Transforming Transportation Demand) (One recommendation claimed. All others available)
14. (Light Duty Vehicles) (Recommendations relating to internal combustion engines still available. Recommendations re alternative fuel vehicles already claimed.)
15. (Heavy Duty Vehicles and Freight) (One recommendation claimed. All other recommendations available)
17. (Shipping) (Four recommendations claimed. All others available)
24.. (Phasing Out Fossil Fuels for Electric Generation) (Appendix A claimed. Main chapter and Appendix B remain available)
25. (Bioenergy Feedstocks)
26. (Production and Delivery of Low-Carbon Gaseous Fuels)
27. (Production and Delivery of Biofuels)
32. (Black Carbon)
34. (Fluorinated Gases)

 

Select a recommendation:

Select one or a few recommendation(s) from a chapter, and draft a model legal document for each recommendation selected. Here is a link to all recommendations from Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, organized by chapter [add link to list of recs by chapter]. To determine which recommendations remain available, contact Rick Horsch.

For further information on how to participate as a drafter please contact Richard Horsch at rh2582@columbia.edu or richard.horsch@lpdd.org

Creation of the site was generously supported by the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation.
© 2021 Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

This website provides educational information. It does not, nor is it intended to, provide legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is established by use of this site. Consult with an attorney for any needed legal advice. There is no warranty of accuracy, adequacy or comprehensiveness. Those who use information from this website do so at their own risk.

Laws vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The model legal documents on this website are not specific to any jurisdiction. They should be viewed solely as a starting point for legislators, policymakers and interested stakeholders, and would need to be adapted and modified to the particularities of local, county, state, federal and other legal systems in consultation with an attorney licensed to practice and experienced in the drafting and enactment of legislation in that jurisdiction.

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