The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780691088709
Subjects: Central government policies; Environmental economics; Global warming; International relations; Protocols, etc.,; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Public Policy - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Earth Sciences; Economics; Political Philosophy; Political Science / Economic Policy; Political Science and International Relations; United Nations Framework Conve; 1997 Dec. 11; Public Policy - Economic Policy; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; (1992); (1992); Government policy
First sentence: Worldwide, legislatures are beginning the long process of deciding whether to ratify and implement the December 1997 "Kyoto Protocol."
Description: "Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them.

In this clear and cogent book, Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol is unlikely to enter into force and how its failure will offer the opportunity to establish a more realistic alternative."--BOOK JACKET.