John Dernbach

John Dernbach

Author on Sustainable Development and Climate Change Law

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Curtin Winsor Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) recently honored me with its Curtin Winsor award for lifetime achievement. PEC is a nonprofit statewide organization that aims to protect and restore the natural and built environments through innovation…

By John Dernbach • December 18, 2022

Sustainability Essentials: A Leadership Guide for Lawyers

The American Bar Association has just published a short practical guide for lawyers who seek to build climate change and sustainable development work into their law practice, regardless of the practice area. The book, Sustainability Essentials: A…

By John Dernbach • December 8, 2022

New Website: Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization

April 14–A new Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization in the United States website was launched today to help accelerate a sustainable U.S. transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. It contains hundreds of model laws that can be provided…

By John Dernbach • April 14, 2020

American Bar Association Urges Broad Range of Actions to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions “to Net Zero or Below”

The American Bar Association (ABA) has adopted a resolution urging all levels of government as well as the private sector to “to recognize their obligation to address climate change and take action” to “[r]educe U.S. greenhouse gas…

By John Dernbach • August 12, 2019

How Lawyers Can Help Save the Planet

A recurring question for many lawyers is what they can do to address climate change and make a contribution to sustainable development.  One answer is to help turn the recommendations in Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States…

By John Dernbach • July 27, 2019

Legal Pathways Book Arms Policymakers, Lawyers, Private Sector With Tools to Combat Climate Change

  With Democrats and Republicans arguing over the virtues and pitfalls of a Green New Deal, and with President Trump’s latest budget proposal cutting many environment- and energy-related programs, climate change policy in the United States is…

By John Dernbach • April 14, 2019

Pennsylvania Petitioned to Adopt Economy-Wide Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

On November 28, the Clean Air Council, Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., the Widener University Commonwealth Law School Environmental Law and Sustainability Center, Professor John C. Dernbach, C. Baird Brown, and over fifty other businesses, organizations…

By John Dernbach • December 3, 2018

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States: Table of Contents and Selected Chapters

The Environmental Law Institute has published Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach eds., March 2019). The book is a playbook of state, local, federal, and private legal pathways for…

By John Dernbach • December 3, 2018

Election 2018: Pennsylvania U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Candidate Positions on Sustainability and Climate Change

Students at Widener Commonwealth Law School have created two-column comparison charts to enable you to quickly compare and contrast the positions of major party candidates on a range of sustainability and climate change issues.  The chart for the…

By John Dernbach • October 22, 2018

The Challenge and Opportunity of Deep Decarbonization

The national debate about climate change has reached a crucial point. We have had eight years of modest progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  The best known and most controversial part of that effort is the Clean Power Plan, which is…

By John Dernbach • January 27, 2017

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