ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that global warming can best be conceptualized as state-corporate criminality. It argues that the failure of the US government to drastically mitigate greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for the criminal harms related to climate change is a state-corporate crime of omission. In view of the extensive scientific evidence of the environmental and social harm resulting from emission-caused global warming. It would be reasonable to expect that the international political community and its member states would move immediately and aggressively to mitigate the production of greenhouse gases. The Kyoto Protocol, which included several novel legal mechanisms to facilitate compliance would only become legally binding upon the USA after its ratification by the US Senate. The efforts to impede governmental actions that would force the fossil fuel industry to stop dumping its waste into the atmosphere have been very successful.
