As the impacts of climate change become more severe, widespread, and costly, the need for accelerated deployment of solutions is clear. Professor Chris Field explores the landscape of progress to date and commitments for the future. He offers options for implementing solutions that will both limit warming and help people and ecosystems cope with its effects.

Chris Field, PhD '81, is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. His research focuses on climate change, especially solutions that improve lives now, decrease the amount of future warming and support vibrant economies.