Topics in STEP: Climate Change Politics and Policy

Climate change has historically been considered a global environmental problem, requiring global cooperative action. A complementary perspective frames solutions to climate change as the result of myriad national & local decisions about investment, consumption, & livelihoods. The challenge is less on global cooperation and more about enabling national and local systems to form a response to climate change. We explore what this perspective implies for the national & local politics of climate change/policymaking. It emphasizes examples and perspectives from the developing world, which have been underrepresented in studies of climate change.