Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Revisiting the NAFTA Agenda on Climate Change

Jeffrey J. Schott, Meera Fickling

July 2010

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract

A year ago, we wrote a policy brief titled Setting the NAFTA Agenda on Climate Change, which explored issues of energy and environmental cooperation among the three North American countries in light of the climate legislation that had recently passed the US House of Representatives. Similar legislation did not pass the Senate, and Congressional leaders are now considering much more modest measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reforming US energy policy.