pO Recent Issues in Governance Studies

© Reuters/Ho New – A photo of the polar ice cap. ver the past decade, olicymakers in Washington, D.C., Ottawa, and Mexico City generally failed to take meaningful action to reduce global greenhouse gases (GHGs), even as leading municipalities, states and provinces and firms worked to move forward wi...

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Main Authors: Henrik Selin, Stacy D. Vandeveer
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.971
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2009/12/climate selin vandeveer/12_climate_selin_vandeveer.pdf
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Summary:© Reuters/Ho New – A photo of the polar ice cap. ver the past decade, olicymakers in Washington, D.C., Ottawa, and Mexico City generally failed to take meaningful action to reduce global greenhouse gases (GHGs), even as leading municipalities, states and provinces and firms worked to move forward with climate policy making. With ongoing global climate change negotiations and climate policy debates heating up in the United States Congress, it is time to think more seriously about North American climate change governance. To date, North American politicians, and particularly those in the United States, have paid little attention to continental options to reduce GHG emissions.