Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio ConventionIrving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard Cambridge University Press, 1994 M09 29 - 392 pages 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. |
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Contents
Visions of a Changing World | 3 |
Prologue to the Climate Change Convention | 45 |
Views from Within the Ring | 75 |
Exercising Common but Differentiated Responsibility | 77 |
The Beginnings of an International Climate Law | 97 |
Constructive Damage to the Status Quo | 113 |
The Climate Change Negotiations | 129 |
A Personal Assessment | 149 |
Looking Back to See Forward | 201 |
The Outside Edges In | 227 |
Some Comments on the INC Process | 229 |
A View from the Ground Up | 239 |
Prospects for the Future | 275 |
Towards a Winning Climate Coalition | 277 |
Visions of the Past Lessons for the Future | 321 |
The Framework Convention On Climate Change | 335 |
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