Selin in Dagens Nyheter on Trump’s Climate Policy
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 in the Swedish media on what President-Elect Donald Trump’s selection of cabinet members could mean about his climate policy.
Selin was interviewed for a November 17, 2016 article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter entitled “Advisors Will Determine Climate Policy.”
From the text of the article:
One of America’s most famous climate deniers, Myron Ebell, has been appointed to reorganize the EPA.
“If it is Myron Ebell who takes over the EPA, it will have serious and dramatic consequences,” says Henrik Selin, a professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Several positions affect climate policy, both internationally and at home. An important one is the Secretary of State. The current Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been highly proactive in climate efforts.
“If he is replaced by someone like John Bolton, Newt Gingrich or Jeff Sessions, then American foreign policy will have a completely different focus. They would gladly carry out Trump’s statements that the U.S. should pull out of the Paris Agreement,” says Henrik Selin.
You can read the entire article here.
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. Learn more about him here.