Negotiating Climate Change
The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

Reconstructs negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

Irving M. Mintzer (Edited by), J. Amber Leonard (Edited by), Michael J. Chadwick (Foreword by)

9780521479141, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 September 1994

408 pages, 3 maps 1 table
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.609 kg

'… of high quality and great interest … highly recommended.' International Relations

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Environmental economics [KCN]