Negotiating Climate Change
Negotiating Climate Change
J. Amber Leonard, Stockholm Environment Institute
Michael J. Chadwick, Stockholm Environment Institute
£36.99
GBPTwo years of intense and often dramatic negotiations culminated in the signing of a Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This compelling book reconstructs the dynamics of those negotiations, based on eye-witness accounts. The main contributors, each a principal player in the drama, have been selected to reflect the perspectives of the most important interest groups and institutions involved in the negotiations, including the OECD, oil-importing developing nations, private industry and non-governmental organisations. These individual accounts are integrated into an edited volume that provides a multi-dimensional assessment of the negotiating process, focusing on the competitive and co-operative interactions among nations, regional alliances, international institutions, corporations and non-governmental organisations.
- Reconstructs the dramatic negotiations at the Framework Convention on Climate Change, from the Rio Janeiro Earth Summit
- Takes ten eye-witness accounts, each a principal player in the drama
- Individual accounts integrated to provide a multi-dimensional assessment of the negotiating process
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'… of high quality and great interest … highly recommended.' International Relations
Product details
September 1994Paperback
9780521479141
408 pages
228 × 152 × 24 mm
0.609kg
3 maps 1 table
Available
Table of Contents
- Foreword Michael J. Chadwick
- Part I. Background:
- 1. Visions of a changing world Irving M. Mintzer and J. A. Leonard
- 2. Prologue to the Climate Change Convention Daniel Bodansky
- Part II. Views from Within the Ring:
- 3. Exercising common but differentiated responsibility Delphine Borione and Jean Ripert
- 4. The beginnings of an international climate law Ahmed Djoghlaf
- 5. Constructive damage to the status quo Elizabeth Dowdeswell and Richard J. Kinley
- 6. The climate change negotiations Chandrashekar Dasgupta
- 7. A personal assessment Bo Kjellen
- 8. The road to Rio José Goldemberg
- 9. A failure of presidential leadership William A. Nitze
- 10. Looking back to see forward Tariq Osman Hyder
- Part III. The Outside Edges In:
- 11. Some comments on the INC process Hugh Faulkner
- 12. A view from the ground up Atiq Rahman and Annie Roncerel
- Part IV. Prospects for the Future:
- 13. Towards a winning climate coalition James K. Sebenius
- 14. Visions of the past, lessons for the future Irving M. Mintzer and J. A. Leonard
- Annex: The Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Index.
