ABSTRACT
In 2007, the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act introduced by Democrat Bernard Sanders stated that global warming poses a significant threat to the national security and economy of the United States, public health and welfare, and the global environment. The United States (US), is generally seen as an obstacle to an international treaty on the reduction of GHG emissions. China ranks second with 105,915 MT or 9. 0 per cent, and our other industrialised country case, Germany, ranks fourth with 81,194. 5 MT or 6. 9 per cent. This chapter focuses on the analysis of over fifty core publications of relevant climate change actors among think tanks, in civil society and government institutions and in 270 parliamentary debates on climate change containing securitising articulations between 1989 and 2014. From the late 1960s, due to a thriving environmental movement that had its origins in emerging scientific fields such as ecology, the environment became an important policy concern in the US.
