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This paper is a draft of a chapter that will be included in the forthcoming edited volume entitled, "The Social Construction of Climate Change." The chapters in the volume present a number of potentially fruitful avenues for analyzing the "social construction of climate change." This paper focuses on the early framing of climate change as a political problem at the international level and the associated normative debates that emerged related to how states should respond to the threat. It then evaluates how the international framing of the problem and the normative debates were translated into the domestic political processes of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The early domestic framing of the problem had profound effects on the political debates in all three countries and played a major role in shaping the degree to which emergent international norms were translated into the domestic policy debates. The paper seeks to explain how and why the political framing of climate change evolved at the international and domestic political levels and explores the consequences of these changes for climate policy in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper assesses comparative environmental politics research related to state and social responses to the challenges posed by the threat of climate change. States and social actors have responded differently to climate change issues in the United States, Germany and Japan despite a generally common set of scientific information and global institutions. Domestic responses to global problems like climate change offer excellent opportunities to compare the effects of domestic political and social institutions across countries. In particular, domestic political structures significantly impact how environmental groups are formed, how they operate vis-à-vis their state's domestic and foreign policy making processes, and how they impact on policy outcomes. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to address the difficulties of understanding between countries on courses of action regarding the regime of Climate Change, focusing the position of Japan and Germany on one hand and Brazil and India on the other, in the process that has ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]