POLICY -TOOL
Answer the following questions:
What sectors of the economy contribute to GHGs in the US? Which nations are the top 5 emitters of GHGs?
Select one sector in the US– and describe 2 environmental policy instruments or tools that you would suggest be applied to encourage or require reductions in GHGs within the sector you have selected.
What policy-tool selection criteria would you use to select these 2 policy instruments?
What level of government – federal, state (including regional partnerships of states) or local – may be most effective in implementing these GHG reduction policy instruments? justify your answer.
