Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools

Leggett, Jane A.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Global climate change;    Global warming;    Government policy;    Greenhouse gases;    International environmental cooperation;   

RP-ID  :  RL34513
RP-ID  :  RL34513_2008May21

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report introduces the reader to fundamentals of the climate change issue. Part one summarizes current understandings and controversies concerning the science, economics, international cooperation, and other aspects of the climate change policy problem. Part two is a brief update on the status of domestic and international policies. Part three outlines the policy toolbox seen as being available to policymakers to address the challenge as they define the emerging legislative agenda.