Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy (Independent Task Force Report) - Softcover

Pataki, Governor George E; Vilsack, Thomas J; Levi, Michael A; Victor, David G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876094124 ISBN 13: 9780876094129

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2008

Synopsis

Climate change is now near-universally recognized as a serious challenge. Statements from political leaders, industry CEOs, environmental groups, and major evangelical associations have made the expanding consensus undeniable. Yet the United States remains without a climate change policy that can command broad domestic support. This deadlock is entirely understandable: meaningful measures to address climate change would affect a wide range of important and powerful domestic interests. Such measures would also alter the international landscape, both for American business and for U.S. diplomacy. As consensus grows around the need to do something, the problem becomes one of translating that into a concrete and viable agenda for action.Led by former governor of New York George E. Pataki and former governor of Iowa Thomas J. Vilsack, the Task Force (made up of some of the nation's leading scientists, economists, business leaders and security and foreign policy thinkers) examines the economics, science, and politics of climate change. In this report, it proposes a comprehensive U.S. strategy to address the challenges that climate change presents, with special emphasis on those that explicitly involve foreign policy.

About this title

About the Author:

George Pataki is counsel at Chadbourne and Parke, LLP. Thomas Vilsack is counsel at Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

About this edition

• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0876094124
• ISBN 13: 9780876094129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122