Changing Markets to Address Climate Change

Abstract

This Keynote Address from the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 2007 Symposium, The Greening of the Corporation, examines the use of market pressures and incentives to encourage corporations to make more environmentally friendly decisions. Peter Lehner, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), draws on his experiences as a litigator and his work for the NRDC in explaining that changing markets will help decrease the impact that corporations have on global warming.