ABSTRACT
Further thoughts on the subject and practice of environmental diplomacy were provided in a 1997 talk in Paris by Ambassador Mark G. Hambley, United States Special Representative to the Commission on Sustainable Development and Special Negotiator on Climate Change. Mr Hambley describes the US State Department’s inclusion of the environment into its foreign policy. His point of view is both official and idealised, and does not address the fact that the United States government finds itself increasingly in a position of diminishing importance in terms of environmental leadership, due to the unwillingness of the US government to take any positive action in regard to global warming. Further decisions made during the current US administration have further undermined US leadership and often left its diplomats with no clear positions.
