TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sjostedt,Gunnar
AU  - Penetrante,Ariel
TI  - Climate change negotiations : a guide to resolving disputes and facilitating multilateral cooperation 
SN  - 9781844074648
AV  - QC903 .C5627 2013
U1  - 363.73874561 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Climate change mitigation
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--; "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"--
ER  -