Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story Of The Rio Convention (cambridge Energy And Environment Series)

Two 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. Pt.1. Background. Visions Of A Changing World / Irving M. Mintzer And J. Amber Leonard -- Prologue To The Climate Change Convention / Daniel Bodansky -- Pt.2. Views From Within The Ring. Exercising Common But Differentiated Responsibility / Delphine Borione And Jean Ripert -- The Beginnings Of An International Climate Law / Ahmed Djoghlaf -- Constructive Damage To The Status Quo / Elizabeth Dowdeswell And Richard J. Kinley -- The Climate Change Negotiations / Chandrashekhar Dasgupta -- A Personal Assessment / Bo Kjellen -- The Road To Rio / José Goldemberg -- A Failure Of Presidential Leadership / William A. Nitze -- Looking Back To See Forward / Tariq Osman Hyder -- Pt.3. The Outside Edges In. Some Comments On The Inc Process / Hugh Faulkner -- A View From The Ground Up / Atiq Rahman And Annie Roncerel -- Pt.4. Prospects For The Future. Towards A Winning Climate Coalition / James K. Sebenius -- Visions Of The Past, Lessons For The Future / Irving M. Mintzer And J. Amber Leonard. Edited By Irving M. Mintzer And J. Amber Leonard ; Foreword By Michael J. Chadwick. Stockholm Environment Institute. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The signing of a Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro ended two years of intense and dramatic negotiation. This book is a collective, eye-witness reconstruction of the negotiations, reflecting the perspectives of the principal interest-groups involved. Farmers, villagers, and city-dwellers worldwide have recently begun to notice what atmospheric scientists have known for decades: the Earth's climate is changing. Reconstructs negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.