ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief history of the politics of climate change. It provides a brief overview of how climate policy is made at the international level, before analyzing the key issues and conflicts in the international negotiations from the negotiation of the 1992 UNFCCC through to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and up to the present state of negotiations around the implementation of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015. The discussion is organized around three features of climate governance which have characterized this period: the role of science and the scientific community in the governance of climate change, the evolving role of North–South politics, and finally the increasing marketization of climate governance.
