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David Gordon

A recently published report shows that the Federal government’s measures to combat greenhouse gas emissions are largely futile and overall ineffective. Fortunately, the same cannot be said for sub-national players, who are implementing innovative climate change reduction strategies in absence of a unified national strategy.

To learn how provinces, states, and cities are combating climate change without a cohesive national plan, environmental law and policy correspondent Naomi Jehlicka speaks with David Gordon, a second year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto whose research examines cross-border city climate governance networks.

You can see the complete episode here: TGM #193 – Sub-Nationals Step Up (June 11, 2010)