Super Polluters : Tackling the world’s largest sites of climate-disrupting emissions

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants -- 2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants -- 3. Recipes for Di...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants -- 2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants -- 3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So -- 4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions -- 5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi) -- 6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung