Selin in CBC on Local Initiatives on Climate
Henrik Selin, Director of Curricular Innovation and Initiatives and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on climate initiatives in the United States on the state and local level following the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Selin was quoted in a June 3, 2017 article in CBC entitled “Cities, States Forge Ahead With Own Plans Despite Trump’s Withdrawal From Climate Deal.”
From the text of the article:
Henrik Selin, a professor of international relations at Boston University, agreed that in the wake of Trump’s announcement, states and cities will probably be spurred to do even more. But the reverse may also be true, he said.
“States that are sort of skeptical, don’t want to take action, they can now hide behind the Trump administration and give them cover not to do it,” Selin said.
“I think the leaders will continue to lead and the laggards will continue to lag.”
The benefit of federal government involvement, Selin said, is that it would have lifted the laggards and forced them to take further action.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press.