Standing up for a Sustainable World for Those Who Stood up and Particularly for Georgina Mace
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Standing up for a Sustainable World For those who stood up and particularly for Georgina Mace Standing up for a Sustainable World Voices of Change 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 Nicholas Stern IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, UK Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Claude Henry, Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern 2020 This is an open access work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users can redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, as detailed in the License. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd must be clearly credited as the owner of the original work. Any translation or adaptation of the original content requires the written authorization of Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2020950121 This book is available electronically in the Economics subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781 ISBN 978 1 80037 177 4 (cased) ISBN 978 1 80037 178 1 (eBook) ISBN 978 1 80037 179 8 (paperback) Contents List of contributors xi Preface: a collective book project – the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition xxiv Acknowledgements xxxii 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 Guérin v vi Standing up for a sustainable world 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 171 Gökşen Şahin Contents vii 20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori peoples 179 Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua 21 France: L’Affaire du Siècle: the story of a mass mobilization for climate 186 Marie Toussaint PART IV COMING GENERATIONS ON THE FRONT LINE 22 Introduction to Part IV 195 Claude Henry 23 Fridays For Future – FFF Europe and beyond 197 Anuna De Wever Van der Heyden, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden 24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria 212 Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu 25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ 219 Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder 26 350.org 232 William “Bill” McKibben 27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? 235 Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois 28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education could fall between two stools 239 Alessia Lefébure PART V ENTREPRENEURS 29 Introduction to Part V 248 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 30 Catching mighty North Sea winds 252 Claude Henry 31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India 255 Claude Henry 32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings 257 Dominique Bureau viii Standing up for a sustainable world 33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones 263 Claude Henry 34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia 266 Pippo Ranci 35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one 273 Geoffrey Heal 36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions 276 Claude Henry 37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? 280 Claude Henry 38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection 285 Claude Henry 39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment 288 Pippo Ranci 40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel’s legacy 293 Claude Henry 41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs 296 Sébastien Treyer 42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? 299 Sébastien Treyer 43 Ethan Brown – the protein revolutionary 303 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 306 Claude Henry 45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages – Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano 309 Pippo Ranci Contents ix 46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development 314 Michel Berry PART VI INVESTORS 47 Introduction to Part VI 323 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition 327 Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik 49 The case for fossil fuel divestment 341 Stephen B. Heintz 50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? 351 Alain Grandjean 51 China’s pioneering green finance 360 Ma Jun PART VII COMMUNICATORS 52 Introduction to Part VII 370 Johan Rockström 53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences 376 Asmeret Asefaw Berhe 54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses 384 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 396 François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux 56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination, emotion, action 401 Genevieve Guenther 57 Climate change: from research to communication 409 Jean Jouzel 58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics 414 Georgina M. Mace x Standing up for a sustainable world 59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change 426 Edward Maibach 60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution 433 Michael E. Mann 61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower 438 David R. Montgomery Index 444 Contributors Monica Araya is the Transport Lead within the COP26 Climate Champions Team. Her work focuses on accelerating the transition to zero-emission road transportation with a strong focus on coalition building and demand acceler- ation. She has founded several initiatives in Latin America to engage leaders in government, business and civil society, including Costa Rica Limpia. She has a doctorate in Environmental Management from Yale University and hosts a podcast on climate, technology and science. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at University of California, Merced. She graduated from Asmara University, Eritrea and received her PhD from UC Berkeley. Professor Berhe is a soil scientist and leader on scientific issues involving soil, climate change, and equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education. She is a member of the inaugural class of the New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and Past Chair of the US National Committee on Soil Science at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Michel Berry has been Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (1981–2008), Director of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion at École Polytechnique (1975–91), founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Gérer et Comprendre (1985–2015), member of the International Programs Committee, American Academy of Management (1994–2002), and is founder and director of the École de Paris du management (1993–present). Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois are three students at École Polytechnique. They were able to join this prestigious engineering school after two years of intensive classes in maths and physics. They got to know each other as neighbours on campus and through their weekly boxing matches! They chose to get involved in the school’s sustainable development asso- ciation in their desire to understand and commit to ecological issues. This breeding ground was conducive to the emergence of a reflection on their role as students and future workers. Dominique Bureau works at the French Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition. He currently chairs its Economic Council for Sustainable xi xii Standing up for a sustainable world Development and its Green Tax Commission.