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Bringing together many of the world's leading experts, this volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of climate change science, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy. It provides an integrated assessment of research on the key topics that underlie current controversial policy questions. The first part of the book addresses recent topics and findings related to the physical-biological earth system. The next part of the book surveys estimates of the impacts of climate change for different sectors and regions. The third part examines current topics related to mitigation of greenhouse gases and explores the potential roles of various technological options. The last part focuses on policy design under uncertainty. Dealing with the scientific, economic and policy questions at the forefront of the climate change issue, this book will be invaluable for graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in all aspects of climate change and the issues that surround it.
With the very emphatic withdrawal of the Bush Administration from the Kyoto Protocol, it might appear that there is no US policy on climate change. This view is reinforced by the 2002 Valentine's Day announcement from the Bush Administration that the cornerstone of its climate policy was to set a goal to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of the US economy by 18 percent over the coming decade; never mind that this was roughly the rate at which the economy had been “de-carbonizing” over the previous decade.
But politicians come and go. This is particularly true in the case of climate change. It was President Bush's father who participated in the setting up of the treaty underlying the Kyoto Protocol, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and no doubt climate policy will outlive the current President Bush. Furthermore, there is other positive activity on climate change in the United States, though relatively modest. There are federal government programs, mostly in research and development, as well as activities by state governments, private parties, and non-governmental organizations.
In this chapter we provide a review of the assorted actions that are being taken in the United States to deal with the climate change problem. The review is by no means comprehensive – just indicative of the types of activities that are under way. In addition, we consider some of the remaining problems that are not addressed by Kyoto, problems which must be addressed regardless of whether Kyoto becomes effective.
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