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No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free energy future.
List of contents
- Foreword by Jessica T. Mathews
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction - The Unexpected Pitfalls of Contending With Oil and Gas
- Part I: The Problem
- Chapter 1 - Beyond Peak Oil and Gas
- Chapter 2 - The Overlooked Perils of Heterogeneous Oil and Gas
- Chapter 3 - A Better Way to Measure Climate Footprints
- Chapter 4 - Curbing the Climate Footprints of Oil and Gas
- Part II: The Players
- Chapter 5 - Industry: Turning the Titanic
- Chapter 6 - Governments: Acting in the Public Interest
- Chapter 7 - Civil Society: Driving Change
- Part III: The Pathways
- Chapter 8 - Moving Forward: Oil and Gas Climate Solutions
About the author
Deborah Gordon is a senior principal in the Climate Intelligence Program at RMI where she leads the Oil and Gas Solutions Initiative. Gordon also serves as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the principal investigator for the Oil Climate Project. Her research has spearheaded the development of the Oil Climate Index Plus Gas (OCI+), a first-of-its-kind analytic tool that compares the lifecycle climate impacts of global oil and gas resources.
Summary
In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free energy future.
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Californians have a deep and complicated relationship with oil. The birth of the modern environmental movement coincides with a 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel that killed thousands of sea birds and left blobs of tar on the beaches for months. Revenue from oil production on State lands still significant. And combustion of petroleum products for transportation remains the biggest contributor to global warming. The analytical approach described in No Standard Oil provides a sophisticated tool that undergirds California's groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the most effective policy to date for bringing new, more sustainable fuels to market.
