US domestic climate change policy

Lee, Henry; Cochran, Vicki Arroyo; Roy, Manik

doi:10.3763/cpol.2001.0137

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“…This looking inside is also interwoven with the debate between the role assigned to the state and market-freedoms. As expressed by Lee, Arroyo and Roy (2001), the US culture is generally averse to government intervention, what helps to explain its attitude towards mitigation commitments. However, a survey conducted by Benenson Strategy Group for Union of Concerned Scientist and Sierra Club in January 2015, in the context of the Paris Agreement negotiation, revealed that 72 per cent of Americans supported the US signing an international climate change agreement.…”

Section: Changes and Trends In The Features Of Us Traditional Political Approach To Climate Changementioning

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“…There are several studies focused on particular issue-topics that appear in US approach to climate change. Lee, Arroyo and Roy (2001) referred to themes re-emerging throughout the 20th century and playing an important role by shaping US policy. Cass (2007) affirmed that the climate debate in the US was bogged down in the science and the economics of climate change.…”

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The evolution of the United States Climate Change Policies and missed leadership opportunities

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2021

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The main objective of this work lies in exposing the evolution and the main features of the US climate policies expressed in its national, subnational, and foreign dimensions that are naturally interwoven. Thus, we assert some of the main features of traditional political approach to climate change include: an emphasis on costs and the impact of measures to address climate change in the American economy and its economic growth; the questioning of climate science as insufficient to justify the costs of the action; the questioning of the differentiation between developed and developing countries as a valid argument for the US to take the lead in international climate action; the resistance to assume mitigation commitments that collide with the principle of national sovereignty and fundamental freedoms inherited from the founding fathers and the related tension between the role of States and free market value. We also recognize that political ideology and partisanship continue to play a key role in climate change polices in the US. While political and economic denialism has not been able to immobilize subnational governmental and non-governmental climate initiatives, it has undermined the opportunity and the responsibility of the US to sustain leadership as international projection. This contribution follows a qualitative approach based on the analysis of climate change policies at different scales. It is based mainly on documentary and qualitative data analysis.

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Section: Changes and Trends In The Features Of Us Traditional Political Approach To Climate Changementioning

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The evolution of the United States Climate Change Policies and missed leadership opportunities

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2021

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“…This resolution stated that the Kyoto Protocol is an international climate treaty that did not include developing country participation and that would cause serious economic damage to the United States. (see Lee, 2001;Lisowski, 2002;Bang et al, 2012;Downie, 2014). The Byrd-Hagel resolution was approved by a vote of 95-0, indicating that no Kyoto-style agreement would achieve the necessary two-thirds majority of Senate approval.…”

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US President Joe Biden’s Administration: A New U.S. Climate Change Agenda (U.S. CCA)

Asadnabizadeh¹

2021

JPL

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The climate change issue is a key principle for Mr Joe Biden’s administration. In this paper, author conducts a Qualitative Content-Analysis (QCA) method of the elements affecting Joe Biden’s administration about the new U.S climate change agenda (U.S. CCA). Thus, the question in this research is that why climate change is one of the important issues in the Biden administration? Based on this method and data analysis the publications were identified and divided to answer the basic question of this article. I differentiated between national and international levels. Hence, paper proposes two reasons, the Economic-based approach and the Individual approach at the national level, to abovementioned research question. In addition, two specific approaches are identified at the International level: global leadership on climate change, global cooperation on the climate change. The policy implications would seem to be that national elements by Economic-based approach and the Individual approach are critical in influencing Biden's new climate agenda.

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“…Differences in climate policy commitments between countries and regions also tend to induce carbon leakage risks [5][6][7][8][9] , where emissions increase elsewhere due to domestic climate policy. The mere risk of carbon leakage has also played a signi cant role historically by discouraging politicians in the United States 10 and European Union 11 from enforcing adequate climate policies.…”

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Consequences of adopting national consumption-based climate targets alongside the territorial commitments under the Paris Agreement

Morfeldt

Larsson

Andersson

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National emission reduction targets under the Paris Agreement have a territorial focus, incentivizing mitigation actions domestically. Here we scrutinize the theoretical basis for adopting complementary consumption-based net-zero emission targets and assess the consequences of adopting such proposed targets for Sweden. We apply scenario analyses based on a prospective lifecycle assessment framework. The framework is a hybrid between bottom-up simulations – for passenger travel, construction and housing, and food – and top-down analyses covering remaining consumption. In this work, we show how consumption-based climate targets accentuate the need for new demand-side climate policies that contribute to reducing emissions along value chains of products and services. Combining advanced mitigation technologies with behavioral changes could achieve emission reductions from 9.8 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per capita in 2019 to between 2.7 and 4.8 tons by 2045 for Swedish residents, depending on global decarbonization pathways.

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US domestic climate change policy

Cited by 8 publications

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The evolution of the United States Climate Change Policies and missed leadership opportunities

The evolution of the United States Climate Change Policies and missed leadership opportunities

US President Joe Biden’s Administration: A New U.S. Climate Change Agenda (U.S. CCA)

Consequences of adopting national consumption-based climate targets alongside the territorial commitments under the Paris Agreement

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