Table of Contents
Foreword 1
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 7
Who We Are 12
Why We Wrote This Book 17
Scope of the Book 17
Chapter 1 The Time to Act Is NOW! 23
Growing Impacts of Climate Change 28
Much Worse Is on the Horizon: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops and Tipping Points 32
Conclusion: The Need for Speed 36
Chapter 2 CO2 Mitigation Alone Can't Protect Us 49
CO2 Reductions: Necessary, but Insufficient, to Slow the Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops and Avoid Near-Term Tipping Points 49
CO2 and the Oceans: Another Challenge to Limiting Near-Term Warming 50
Reducing Fossil Fuel Burning Will Result in Short-Term Warming Due to the Fast Decline of Co-Emitted Cooling Aerosols 52
Conclusion: We Need More Than just CO2 Mitigation 53
Chapter 3 How Cutting Super Climate Pollutants Can Save Us 61
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) 63
Methane 64
Tropospheric Ozone 65
Black Carbon 65
Conclusion: Cutting Four Super Climate Pollutants Can Save the Planet 69
Chapter 4 Lessons from the Montreal Protocol 76
The Protocol's Source of Success: A Sectoral Approach 81
The Panel That Makes the Protocol Work: The TEAP 83
Lasting Lessons for Climate Change 89
Conclusion: Follow the Montreal Protocol 90
Chapter 5 Cutting Super Climate Pollutants Now: Three Steps 93
Step One: Use Sector-Based Multilateral Agreements 93
Step Two: Energize Public and Private Organizations 100
Step Three: Accelerate Dedicated Measures to Cut Super Climate Pollutants 106
Policy Actions to Cut Super Climate Pollutants 110
Individual Actions to Cut Super Climate Pollutants 113
Conclusion: We Can Win the 10-Year Sprint If We Act Now 113
Glossary and Acronyms 142
