- Title
- The influence of US neoliberalism on international climate change policy
- Creator
- McGee, Jeffrey
- Relation
- Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change p. 193-214
- Relation
- Energy, Climate and the Environment
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137319890
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The United States is home to the world’s largest economy. It is also the second largest national emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), contributing nearly 20 percent of yearly global emissions (US EPA, 2013). In per capita terms, US GHG emissions rank amongst the highest of the developed countries (Garnaut, 2008: 55). It has long been clear that effective international governance for reducing GHG emissions will necessarily require significant US participation. The US has been a leader in researching the science of climate change through sponsoring research within its high quality university and government research institutions and making contributions to the United Nations scientific body in climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, wider US engagement with the international climate change institutions has been significantly less positive. During the early 1990s the first Bush Administration was active in negotiations to form the first overarching international agreement on climate change, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). During these negotiations the US successfully opposed initiatives such as the inclusion of a system of internationally negotiated, legally binding targets and timetables for countries to reduce their GHG emissions. Instead, the US advocated that each country pursue their own domestic goals, strategies and/or programs for reducing emissions (Bodansky, 2001: 29). Despite some support for binding targets and timetables during negotiations for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the US position on targets and timetables has largely been one of ongoing resistance.
- Subject
- climate change; economy; techonological advances; environmental studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1065456
- Identifier
- uon:17848
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781137319883
- Language
- eng
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