Climate Diplomacy From Rio to Paris : The Effort to Contain Global Warming

**The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference** __Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris__ is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris. The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris. The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Stakes -- ONE: Can Catastrophic Climate Change Be Averted? -- TWO: What Else Is at Stake? -- THREE: Can Diplomacy Deliver? -- Part II: The Players -- FOURE: The Superpowers -- FIVE: BRICs, BASICs, and Beyond -- SIX: Sentimental Attachments, Existential Threats -- Part III: The Action -- SEVEEN: The Road to Rio -- EIGHT: Rio and Kyoto -- NINE: Copenhagen -- TEN: The Road to Paris -- Epilogue: The Paris Agreement -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E "Can the global community prevent dangerous climate change? This was the mission it set itself at the 1992 Earth Summit, and this was the concern that prompted 100,000 demonstrators to turn out in the streets of New York in September 2014, when the UN secretary-general convened a global climate summit. Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris assesses the dramatic twenty-five -year effort to arrive at a consensus about how to contain global warming and concludes with an on-the-spot analysis of the December 2015 Paris accords."--Page 4 of cover F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W