Climate diplomacy from Rio to Paris
Subtitle: the effort to contain global warming
By: William Sweet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780300209631
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: International cooperation; Climatic changes; Government policy; Global warming
Description: "Can the global community prevent dangerous climate change? This was the mission it set itself at the 1992 Earth Summit, and this was the concern that prompted 100,000 demonstrators to turn out in the streets of New York in September 2014, when the UN secretary-general convened a global climate summit. Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris assesses the dramatic twenty-five -year effort to arrive at a consensus about how to contain global warming and concludes with an on-the-spot analysis of the December 2015 Paris accords."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The stakes. Can catastrophic climate change be averted?; title: What else is at stake?; title: Can diplomacy deliver?; title: Part II. The players. The superpowers; title: BRICs, BASICs, and beyond; title: Sentimental attachments, existential threats; title: Part III. The action. The road to Rio; title: Rio and Kyoto; title: Copenhagen; title: The road to Paris; title: Epilogue: The Paris Agreement.