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Federal Agencies and Climate Change
Climate change is today affecting communities and environment across the world. In response, the federal governments have taken action to help people to adapt to current and potential risks through programs and policies. The federal agencies are taking leadership roles in enabling the state and communities in their adaptation planning and projects. In many countries, such as the United States, policy is set by the President, while the congress has the role to set laws. The Supreme Court on the other hand, is responsible for resolving the conflict of policy (Russell, 2013). This paper will therefore research on the federal agencies and cabinet departments which are important in determining causes of climate change as well as, identifying the ones that formulate and execute policies in response to assertions of climate change.
There are a number of federal agencies and cabinet departments which are responsible in determining the existence and causes of climate change; these include, National Naval Officers Association (NNOA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Air and Space Administration (NASA), the State Department and many others. The President is...
In the United States, the issue of climate change receives much higher attention. In 2009, the President of the United States Barack Obama initiated Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (ICCATF), which had representatives from 20 Federal Agencies chaired by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Given that many societies are directly or indirectly affected by climate change as a result of global warming, the departments as well as, the agencies have in actual fact focused on the problem. This is because; the Department of Agriculture has a major stake in understanding the benefit of agriculture particularly to the economies of all agriculture producing countries and to the world food supplies along with the effects of climate changes on Agriculture (Stephenson, 2006).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plays a significant role in investigating what causes climate change so…
References
Russell, P.R. (2013). Federal Agencies Tackle Climate Change. Roll Call. Retrieved June 11, 2014, from http://www.rollcall.com/news/federal_agencies_tackle_climate_change-223053-1.html
Stephenson, J.B. (2006). Climate change federal agencies should do more to make funding reports clearer and encourage progress on two voluntary programs: testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Resources, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Wellman, L. (2014). Climate Change Policy Analysis. EInternational Relations. Retrieved June 11, 2014, from http://www.e-ir.info/2012/10/20/climate-change-policy-analysis/
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