Ozone diplomacy : new directions in safeguarding the planet / Richard Elliot Benedick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedick, Richard Elliot.

Contributor:

World Wildlife Fund (U.S.)

Georgetown University. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ozone layer depletion--Law and legislation.

Ozone layer depletion.

Air--Pollution--Law and legislation.

Air.

Air quality management--International cooperation.

Air quality management.

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985 March 22)--Protocols, etc. (1987 September 15).

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.

Physical Description:

xvii, 449 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first edition of this book offered an insider's view of the politics, economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Now Benedick--a principal architect and chief U.S. negotiator of the treaty--brings us to the eve of the treaty's 10th anniversary.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword to the First Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Enlarged Edition

Abbreviations

1. Lessons from History

2. The Science: Models of Uncertainty

3. Spray Cans and Europolitics

4. Prelude to Consensus

5. Forging the U.S. Position

6. The Sequence of Negotiations

7. Points of Debate

8. The Immediate Aftermath

9. New Science, New Urgency

10. The Road to Helsinki

11. The Protocol in Evolution

12. The South Claims a Role

13. Strong Decisions in. London

14. Accelerating the Phaseout

15. A New Phase for the Protocol

16. "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities"

17. Promoting Compliance

18. New Controls for North and South

19. A New Global Diplomacy: Ozone Lessons and Climate Change

Chronology

Appendix A Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, March 1985

Appendix B Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, September 1987

Appendix C London Revisions to the Montreal Protocol, June 1990 (Excerpts)

Appendix D Montreal Protocol Phaseout Schedules

Appendix E Terms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund

Appendix F Terms of Reference of the Executive Committee

Appendix G Noncompliance Procedure

Appendix H The Nearly Universal Treaty: Parties to the 1985 Vienna Convention and 1987 Montreal Protocol, with Ratifications to the 1990 London and 1992 Copenhagen Amendments

Notes

Select Ozone Bibliography (cited in chronological order)

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674020757

0674020758

OCLC:

923110005