U.S. Global Climate Change Policy / Elias D'Angelo.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

D'Angelo, Elias, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2011.

Summary:

The nature of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions) makes their control difficult to integrate with the U.S economy and traditional U.S. energy policy. Despite the obvious interrelationship between energy policy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the United States has struggled to integrate the two. For a country that has traditionally used its relatively cheap supply of energy to substitute for more expensive labor and capital costs to compete internationally, this linkage is particularly strong, as witnessed by the nation's high GHG emissions per capita. In the face of this economic reality, along with continuing scientific uncertainty, debate over a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction program can be categorized by three inter-related Cs: Cost, Competitiveness, and Comprehensiveness.

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