Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming
The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris.
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Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming
The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris.
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Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming

by William Sweet
Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming

by William Sweet

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The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300224771
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/06/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 343 KB

About the Author

William Sweet is a reporter and writer who currently teaches science and public policy at New York University. Educated in history and international affairs at the University of Chicago and Princeton, he covered science politics for Physics Today and IEEE Spectrum magazines. He is the author of two previous books, Kicking the Carbon Habit and The Nuclear Age.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part I The Stakes

1 Can Catastrophic Climate Change Be Averted? 3

2 What Else Is at Stake? 18

3 Can Diplomacy Deliver? 37

Part II The6 Players

4 The Superpowers 61

5 BRICs, BASICs, and Beyond 80

6 Sentimental Attachments, Existential Threats 98

Part III The Action

7 The Road to Rio 119

8 Rio and Kyoto 126

9 Copenhagen 144

10 The Road to Paris 162

Epilogue: The Paris Agreement 170

Appendixes 185

Notes 191

Selected Bibliography 219

Acknowledgments 227

Index 231

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