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Title Climate change negotiations : a guide to resolving disputes and facilitating multilateral cooperation / edited by Gunnar Sjostedt, Ariel Penetrante
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Earthscan climate
Contents pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Professional perspectives -- pt. 3. Stumbling blocks -- pt. 4. Conclusion
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
"Climate negotiations are continually plagued by competing national and business interests that create stumbling blocks to success. This book approaches these blocks from five professional perspectives. They identify major problems, including great power strategies, leadership, the role of NGOs, capacity-and knowledge-building, airline emissions, risk transfer instruments, cost benefit analysis, the IPCC, and verification and institutional design"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Climate change mitigation -- International cooperation
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Form Electronic book
Author Sjöstedt, Gunnar, editor
Penetrante, Ariel, editor
ISBN 9781136252297
1136252290
9780203105054
0203105052
9780203105054
9781136252280
1136252282