FrontMatter -- Foreword: America's Climate Choices -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 The Context for America's Climate Choices -- 2 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change -- 3 The Unique Challenges of Climate Change -- 4 A Framework for Making America's Climate Choices -- 5 Key Elements of America's Climate Choices -- Notes and References -- Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists -- Appendix B: Committee on America's Climate Choices Member Biographical Sketches -- Appendix C: Additional Information Regarding the Content of the ACC Panel Reports -- Appendix D: Agenda from the Summit on America's Climate Choices -- Appendix E: Acronyms and Initialisms.