United States' Climate Change Policy - Domestic and International Dimension

This note provides an overview of the climate change policy in the United States. A first section is dedicated to the description of the state of play and the possible trends in the US domestic policy. The second section is aimed to provide an overview of the US position in the international negotiations. This latter is a first excerpt of the forthcoming study on the Conference of the Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.