Climate Change Politics & Policy
ENVS 4100/3521

Week 7

COMPONENT II: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY/POLITICS

February 28

US national climate action – from CAFÉ standards to Congressional (in)action

Activity #1 final negotiations

Schneider, S.H., Rosencranz, A., Mastrandrea, M.D. and Kuntz-Duriseti, K. (eds.) (2010) Climate Change Science and Policy. Island Press: Washington, D.C.

• Chapters 18 & 33

Townshend, T., Fankhauser, S., Matthews, A., Feger, C., Liu, J., and Narciso, T. (2011) Legislating Climate Change on a National Level, Environment September/October, 5-16.

Rabe, B. (2008) States on steroids: the intergovernmental odyssey of American climate policy, Review of Policy Research 25(2), 105-128.

March 1

MIDTERM EXAM

turn in Activity #1 peer assessment