Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

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

• ISBN13: 9780521479141
• ISBN10: 0521479142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

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.