This book explores the shifting problems and politics of climate change governance, explaining the key underlying issues and negotiation history systematically, and arguing for a methodical solution through global law and constitutionalism. A key resource for policymakers, NGOs, researchers and graduate students working in climate/environmental policy and international law.
This book explores the shifting problems and politics of climate change governance, explaining the key underlying issues and negotiation history systematically, and arguing for a methodical solution through global law and constitutionalism. A key resource for policymakers, NGOs, researchers and graduate students working in climate/environmental policy and international law.
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South, in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She also works as part of the scientific steering committees of many different international programmes including the Global Water Systems project and the Earth System Governance project. Professor Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of several journals, including the Carbon and Law Review, Environmental Science and Policy, and new journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Her published work includes writing as a lead author for both the IPCC Report which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and also the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zaved Second Prize, in addition to several books on climate change including The Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: From Conflict to Consensus? (1997) and Our Simmering Planet: What to do About Global Warming (2001). She is also the co-editor of Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Yvo de Boer Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. Grasping the essentials of the climate change problem 2. Mitigation, adaptation and geo-engineering Part II. The History of the Negotiations: 3. Setting the stage: defining the climate problem (until 1990) 4. Institutionalising key issues: the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991-1996) 5. Progress despite challenges: towards the Kyoto Protocol and beyond (1997-2001) 6. The regime under challenge: leadership competition sets in (2001-2007) 7. Enlarging the negotiating pie Part III. Issues in Global Climate Governance: 8. Countries, coalitions, other actors and negotiation challenges 9. Litigation and human rights Part IV. Towards the Future: 10. Climate governance: a steep learning curve! References Index.
Foreword Yvo de Boer Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. Grasping the essentials of the climate change problem 2. Mitigation, adaptation and geo-engineering Part II. The History of the Negotiations: 3. Setting the stage: defining the climate problem (until 1990) 4. Institutionalising key issues: the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991-1996) 5. Progress despite challenges: towards the Kyoto Protocol and beyond (1997-2001) 6. The regime under challenge: leadership competition sets in (2001-2007) 7. Enlarging the negotiating pie Part III. Issues in Global Climate Governance: 8. Countries, coalitions, other actors and negotiation challenges 9. Litigation and human rights Part IV. Towards the Future: 10. Climate governance: a steep learning curve! References Index.
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