Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Changing Climates and Institution Building across the Continent -- I Between Kyoto and Washington -- 2 Climate Change Politics in Mexico -- 3 Looking for Leadership: Canada and Climate Change Policy -- II States and Cities Out Front -- 4 Second-Generation Climate Policies in the States: Proliferation, Diffusion, and Regionalization -- 5 Field Notes on the Political Economy of California Climate Policy -- 6 Climate Leadership in Northeast North America -- 7 Local Government Response to Climate Change: Our Last, Best Hope? -- III Continental Politics -- 8 NAFTA as a Forum for CO2 Permit Trading? -- 9 Renewable Electricity Politics across Borders -- 10 Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking -- IV Climate Action among Firms, Campuses, and Individuals -- 11 Business Strategies and Climate Change -- 12 Insurance and Reinsurance in a Changing Climate -- 13 Campus Climate Action -- 14 Communicating Climate Change and Motivating Civic Action: Renewing, Activating, and Building Democracies -- Conclusion -- 15 North American Climate Governance: Policymaking and Institutions in the Multilevel Greenhouse -- About the Contributors -- Index.