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Mark Seabright
Peter Singer
James P. Sterba
Brian K. Steverson
Paul W. Taylor
Wanda Teays
Janna Thompson
Steve Vanderheiden
Karen J. Warren
Mary Anne Warren
Barbara Wien
Preface to the Third Edition
In 2007 when I was a senior research fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive policy think tank in Washington, DC., I spent some time on the Environmental Policy Team. This team had as it goal the creation of various papers that would be listed on the Center’s website and be distributed to appropriate committees in Congress to influence public policy.
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Procedurally, developed countries like the United States (US) promised certain levels of funding so that the goals might be achievable for poorer countries. Methods of measurement were agreed upon and finally there were new agencies created under the auspices of the United Nations to help administer and monitor these goals.
At the Center for American Progress there was general hope that we were finally on the road that would lead us to our goal of halting global warming and thus averting the climate disaster that we all saw as imminent.