The biodiversity convention
Subtitle: a negotiating history : a personal account of negotiating the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and after
By: by Fiona McConnell.
Series: International environmental law and policy series
Publisher: Kluwer Law International; Springer
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) -- History.; Biological diversity conservation -- Law and legislation -- History.
Description: This book describes how a rather vague proposal put to the UN Environment Programme in 1987 developed into the 1992 Biodiversity Convention. The author gives a first hand and personal account of heading the UK delegation during the negotiations and subsequently, as a consultant, of taking part in the first tentative steps towards its implementation.

The convention has generated a number of academic treatises and legal analyses: this book offers a unique insight into how it was negotiated, arguments and counterarguments, misunderstandings, compromises, rhetoric, camaraderie and frustration. The "story" takes the reader behind the scenes at international gatherings in London, Nairobi, Geneva, Montreal, New York, Madrid, Nassau and the Rio de Janeiro "Earth Summit".

. It should be of interest to environmental policy makers, conservation groups, lawyers, students of environmental law and of the wider United Nations negotiating process.
Notes: Includes index.