pO Recent Issues in Governance Studies

• Main Authors: Henrik Selin, Stacy D. Vandeveer
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Ice cap; Polar Ice Cap
• 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

© 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.