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Climate diplomacy from Rio to Paris : the effort to contain global warming /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sweet, William, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Global warming > Government policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The stakes. Can catastrophic climate change be averted?
  • What else is at stake?
  • Can diplomacy deliver?
  • Part II. The players. The superpowers
  • BRICs, BASICs, and beyond
  • Sentimental attachments, existential threats
  • Part III. The action. The road to Rio
  • Rio and Kyoto
  • Copenhagen
  • The road to Paris
  • Epilogue. The Paris Agreement.