Think Globally, Act Globally: The Limits of Local Climate Policies

Wiener points out that subnational state-level action is not the best way to combat global climate change. This is true even assuming that forestalling global climate change is of utmost importance, and even where the state-level policies are individually well designed. The basic point remains that...

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Published inUniversity of Pennsylvania law review Vol. 155; no. 6; pp. 1961 - 1979
Main Author Wiener, Jonathan B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Law School 01.06.2007
Subjects
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carbon offsets
Climate change
Climate change policy
Commentaries
Emissions
Emissions policy
Emissions reduction
Emissions regulations
Environmental law
Environmental legislation
Environmental policy
Federal regulation
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gases
Pollutant emissions
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Summary:Wiener points out that subnational state-level action is not the best way to combat global climate change. This is true even assuming that forestalling global climate change is of utmost importance, and even where the state-level policies are individually well designed. The basic point remains that local action is not well suited to regulating mobile global conduct yielding a global externality. He argues that subnational state-level action, by itself, is of limited value, and may even yield preserve results; and given that such state-level action is already occurring and suggest what is best uses may be in light of these limitations. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0041-9907
1942-8537
DOI:10.2307/40041388