Landing the Paris Climate Agreement : how it happened, why it matters, and what comes next / Todd Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Todd, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)--(21st : 2015 : Paris, France).

Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (2015 December 12).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11).

Climatic changes--Law and legislation--International cooperation.

Climatic changes.

Enforcement measures (International law)--Environmental aspects.

Enforcement measures (International law).

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Law and legislation.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This book is Todd Stern's eyewitness account of the full, charged, seven-year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret U.S.-China climate deal in 2014, to Paris itself. It illuminates the strategy and tactics, policy, politics and diplomacy that made Paris possible, and it also depicts the pitfalls and challenges overcome, the struggle between different groups of countries, the sometimes shifting alliances, the last-minmute maneuvering and the ultimate historic success"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Creative destruction : the start

2. Creative destruction: the pivot

3. Creative destruction : the battle

4. The thirteenth month

5. A mandate in Durban

6. The gears engage

7. The China card

8. The far turn

9. Paris

10. The road ahead.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37961-9

0-262-37960-0

OCLC:

1429287233