JUST RELEASED Continental Climate Governance Challenges for North America Henrik Selin, Assistant Professor, Boston University Stacy D. VanDeveer, Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire LINK TO THE pdf: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/12_climate_selin_vandeveer/12_climate_selin_vandeveer.pdf
Exec Summary: Over the past decade, policymakers 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. If North American GHG emissions are to be reduced efficiently and effectively across public and private sector entities across the continent, with the fewest trade distortions and other economic consequences possible, federal authorities in all three countries will need to realize and act on these shared interests. In this paper, we explore North America's current GHG output and policy actions to date, examine four possible multilevel climate governance scenarios and extol the benefits of continental climate change cooperation. Stacy D. VanDeveer Associate Professor University of New Hampshire Dept. of Political Science Horton SSC Durham, NH 03824 USA [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> tel: fax: mobile: Skype ID: (+1) 603-862-0167 [cid:[email protected]] <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?lang=en&src=jj_signature&To=%28%2B1%29+603%2D862%2D0167&[email protected]> (+1) 603-862-0178 (+1) 781-321-5880 [cid:[email protected]] <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?lang=en&src=jj_signature&To=%28%2B1%29+781%2D321%2D5880&[email protected]> stacy.vandeveer Want to always have my latest info?<https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=51539758810&src=client_sig_212_1_banner_join&invite=1&lang=en> Want a signature like this?<http://www.plaxo.com/signature?src=client_sig_212_1_banner_sig&lang=en>
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