ABSTRACT
The greater complexity of the greenhouse warming issue may require the convention to provide for a bottom-up policy process that goes beyond the Montreal Protocol in two critical respects. First, the convention could require each party to prepare its own national strategy for addressing greenhouse warming and to share that strategy with other parties. Second, international organizations, local communities, and non-governmental organizations should be more involved in developing and implementing national and international strategies than they were with ozone. A system for negotiating an international regime for reducing global warming will not occur in a vacuum. It can be facilitated by--and in fact needs--simultaneous changes in technology, economics, and politics. The chapter discusses a new politics that facilitates change to a more sustainable way of life at the international, national and local levels. The critical elements of that new politics are local participation, institutional reform, and international cooperation.
