Analyzing the Effectiveness of Recent Legislation in Addressing Climate Change

• Ahmed Jabar Hadi Jabr

  College of Arts, University of Babylon, Hillah, Iraq

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In response to this question, this essay through the use of interviews examines the stakeholders’ views on particular follow-up reforms as well as provides some reflections regarding how the process of framing and enacting this legislation may be utilized to possibly progress further reforms. Energy is not like any other issue and is considered political in light of its dynamics, meanings and aspects in the United States of America. Though climate change tends to stir up strong and individual emotions in most Americans regardless of their stance on climate policies, energy politicization is entrenched in identity with even very polarized issues like abortion and gun control. Still, this activity has proceeded on massive and diverse climate and energy actions across multiple fronts (at the state level, in the courts, locally, in the executive branch, and in private efforts). In contrast, that kind of effort is frequently workmanlike and incremental and has built-in constraints in that it has avoided some of the most politically fraught topics (e.g., dependency on fossil fuels) and the cultivation of common political ground (e. g., resilience). One of the most contentious dynamics has to do with activities, which seek to employ the mechanisms of the courts to attempt at least to enjoin or to repeal measures that have been passed under the other forum or passed by states to prevent further action by the federal government as new national standards. Altogether these prepare a fundamentally different political landscape concerning the climate and energy quests, as well as the efforts formulated above have significant questions and uncertainties concerning their efficacy across context.

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