States' roles in reducing global warming: Achieving international goals

Conference · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1994 · World Resource Review; (United States)

OSTI ID:6576418

Feldman, D L; Wilt, C A ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Energy, Environment, and Resources Center

National governments hold major responsibility for reducing global warming. However, some of the most important efforts to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases must occur at sub-national levels. In federal systems composed of states, as well as unitary systems that impose national policies upon regions, smaller administrative units are involved in energy conservation and end-use efficiency programs, CFC reduction activities, and transportation planning. States and regions also provide greenhouse gas emissions and other basic environmental data needed to comply with international agreements. The authors argue that, for some issues states are better able than national governments to develop innovative, flexible greenhouse gas policies that are administratively feasible and publicly acceptable. International agreements and policy declarations and institution-building efforts acknowledge the importance of institution-building efforts acknowledge the importance of bottom-up approaches that rely on regionally-based, sustainable development activities to reduce global warming. They describe how national energy and pollution-prevention policies in the US invest states with specific responsibilities for reducing greenhouse gases or participating in adaptation strategies.

• OSTI ID: 6576418
• Report Number(s): CONF-940422--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: World Resource Review; (United States) Journal Volume: 6:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS
CLIMATIC CHANGE
COMPLIANCE
CONTROL
COOPERATION
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
GREENHOUSE GASES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
MITIGATION
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION CONTROL
STATE GOVERNMENT