ABSTRACT
As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation asks how these persistent obstacles can be down-scaled, approaching them from five professional perspectives: a top policy-maker, a senior negotiator, a leading scientist, an international lawyer, and a sociologist who is observing the process.
The authors identify the major problems, including great power strategies (the EU, the US and Russia), leadership, the role of NGOs, capacity and knowledge-building, airline industry emissions, insurance and risk transfer instruments, problems of cost benefit analysis, the IPCC in the post-Kyoto situation, and verification and institutional design. A new key concept is introduced: strategic facilitation. 'Strategic facilitation' has a long time frame, a forward-looking orientation and aims to support the overall negotiation process rather than individual actors.
This book is aimed at academics, university students and practitioners who are directly or indirectly engaged in the international climate negotiation as policy makers, diplomats or experts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|40 pages
Introduction
part 2|67 pages
Professional Perspectives
chapter 2|15 pages
The New Diplomacy from the Perspective of a Diplomat
part 3|280 pages
Stumbling Blocks
chapter 6|24 pages
Defining a Politically Feasible Path for Future Climate Negotiations
chapter 9|19 pages
NGO Participation in the Global Climate Change Decision-making Process
chapter 10|20 pages
Institutional Capacity Building to Facilitate Climate Change Negotiations
chapter 11|19 pages
Stumbling Blocks in a Sectoral Approach
chapter 12|22 pages
Overcoming Stumbling Blocks
chapter 13|28 pages
Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
chapter 14|45 pages
Developing a Legal Toolkit
chapter 15|35 pages
Verification as a Precondition for Binding Commitments
chapter 16|17 pages
Difficulties of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Climate Negotiations
part 4|55 pages
Conclusion