Local Solutions to the Global Crisis: A Guide to Climate-Resilient Development

November 2022
Citation:
52
ELR 10883
Issue
11
Author
Ethan Baer, Caitlin Boas, Gabriella Izquierdo, Laurel Jobe, and Samuel Stewart

In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) promulgated climate-resilient development (CRD), which combines adaptation and mitigation as a principal strategy for managing climate change. This Article discusses local land use law in the context of CRD and provides a methodology for identifying and evaluating strategies that address the global climate crisis at the local level. Local governments have the power to integrate land use strategies that include CRD components, and the IPCC identified these strategies as effective tools for implementing CRD. This Article provides a framework that defines the evolving field of CRD and facilitates its implementation.

Ethan Baer, Caitlin Boas, Gabriella Izquierdo, Laurel Jobe, and Samuel Stewart are Land Use Scholars in the Land Use Law Center at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

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