JR DeShazo and Juan Matute publish climate planning chapter

Lewis Center Executive Committee Member J.R. DeShazo and staff researcher Juan Matute’s chapter on the Local Regulation of Climate Change will be available in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning, edited by Lewis Center Faculty Fellow Randall Crane and MIT Professor Rachel Weber.  The chapter highlights the challenges to operationalizing global climate action goals at the community level – where there is not yet consensus about how to measure greenhouse gas emissions let alone how to assign and enforce responsiblity for emissions reductions.  DeShazo and Matute put forward a framework for measurement that would move local governments forward on these two goals.