In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation
requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over
the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to
Copenhagen to sign a treaty requiring reductions by 50 percent over
a two-decade period. The President came back with nothing: no firm
commitment to reduce emissions and only a vague target to hold
global temperature rises to under 2 C. How does a President who has
a 75-vote majority in the House and a 19-vote majority in the
Senate who has pre-approval for a treaty reducing greenhouse gas
production by 18 percent not achieve a treaty with at least the
minimum goal of 18 percent reductions by 2020?Others have answered
the puzzle by looking at institutional designs or negotiation
dynamics. This book articulates a multilevel process that starts
with local politics to explain how they can influence international
negotiations and why President Obama s efforts in Copenhagen were
doomed to fail. Understanding the role of local private interests
can help form strategies for overcoming national resistance to
climate change legislation and ultimately international agreements
that could change the environmentally self-destructive course we
are on.
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