The United National Framework Convention on Climate change mandated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to regularly assess the state of the entire evidence available on the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts on life on the planet including human health and the most effective policy responses.
In the run-up to Copenhagen we saw the mandates of organizations involved in all sorts of causes ranging from human rights to poverty make the issue of climate change their mandate.
That long-range planning process already involves dealing with the possible repercussions of climate change, a mandate to boost the state's use of renewable sources to 33% of the energy supply by 2020 and another mandate to phase out a process known as once-through cooling that uses ocean water to cool coastal power plants, which will probably take some other plants out of service.
Also on Trump's Obama hit list are: the policy to spare Dreamers deportation; the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of Obama's effort to deal with global climate change; the mandate for employers to provide birth control coverage on their health insurance plans; repeal of the Title IX guidelines on sexual assault; a rollback of major provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act; and a good deal more.
That includes the climate change regulations mandated by the Supreme Court.
But Mr Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said Mr Paterson was wrong if he was suggesting the Climate Change Act mandated wind farms ahead of other power sources.
As it now stands, AB 32, California's climate change law, mandates a 30% cut in carbon emissions from cars, trucks, utilities and other businesses by 2020.
Congress's climate change bill mandates a 17% cut in greenhouse gas emissions... by 2020!
Most nations have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and are mandated to report National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, including the land use, land use change and forestry sector when it is significant.
California has just achieved the climate change equivalent of mandating automakers to add airbags and basic safety features to all their cars.
Massachusetts has adopted a Climate Change bill that mandates all agencies must take carbon emissions into account when drafting new regulations, and the Cannabis Control Commission has attempted to push the industry in the state to be among the least polluting in the country.
