Full Title: AGE OF EXPERIMENTS: How States and Regions Are Developing the Next Generation of Climate and Energy Policies
Author(s): The Climate Group
Publisher(s): The Climate Group
Publication Date: September 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
Current national policies to address climate change are falling short. But state and regional governments are developing a new generation of policies to meet the challenge.
Over the past two decades, the world has looked to national governments to confront the risks posed by a changing climate. But to date, those collective efforts have been insufficient. An international treaty mandating ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from all major nations has proved unworkable. And according to the International Energy Agency, current national policies have global average temperatures on track to rise as high as 5.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century – far beyond the 2-degree increase identified by scientists as the threshold for avoiding dangerous climate change.