Climate Change Negotiations

<p>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. <i>Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation </i>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>