Our simmering planet : what to do about global warming? /
Joyeeta Gupta
- London: Zed Book, 2001.
- 178 p.: ill.; 20 cm.
- Global issues series (Zed Books) .
1. Weathering the weather -- Local weather calamities occurring globally -- The cauldron of discontent -- 2. Climate instability and global warming: the evidence -- What is climate change? -- Laboratory models and predictions -- The significance of laboratory predictions -- Sources and sinks -- Uncertainty about the distribution of impacts -- Who is responsible, and what action can be taken? -- Reasons for taking action -- 3. The climate change negotiations: from optimism to pragmatism -- The initial optimism -- The climate change treaty and its provisions: vague but setting a precedent -- The common but differentiated approach: leadership proclaimed -- The temporary dip -- COP-3: The Kyoto protocol -- Post Kyoto: COP-4 and 5 -- Implementation without ratification -- COP-6: irreconcilable breakdown or minor hitch in a long process? -- Beyond 2001: critical issues ahead -- 4. The Kyoto regime and its controversies -- Being principled about principles -- Targets: horse-trading or fair-dealing? -- The flexible mechanisms: carbon trading and others -- Technology cooperation -- The financial mechanism -- Adaptation -- Sinks -- Equity: the targets and leadership revisited -- 5. The players and their concerns: caught between domestic oppostion and international commitments -- The USA: beating about the bush -- The UK -- Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway: leaders turned laggards -- Russia, Japan, China, India, South Africa -- 6. The game of coalitions -- The North-South dichotomy -- Northern coalitions -- The European Unions -- Eastern and Central Europe -- Developing country coalitions -- Curious coalitions. 7. The non-state actors and coalitions -- The growing mass of non-state actors -- Environmental NGO's -- Industry and business: Russian Roulette or Casino Capitalism -- Other social actors -- 8. Due process and the rule of law: towards decreasing transparency -- Legitimacy: the growing challenge -- Differences between countries in preparation for negotiating sessions -- At the negotiations: when the going gets tough -- 9. Saving face is saving faith -- Three steps forward, two steps back -- Bonn 2001: Pyrrhic Victory -- The problem redefined: ideological, technological and institutional 'lock-in' -- The scenarios -- Winner takes all: cynical issue linkages -- Saving face -- Re-thinking the north: the cracked mirror