Our simmering planet : what to do about global warming? / Joyeeta Gupta
Material type: TextSeries: Global issues series (Zed Books)Publication details: London: Zed Book, 2001Description: 178 p.: ill.; 20 cmISBN: 1842770799; 9781842770795DDC classification: 525Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 525 GUP/O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P00103 |
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
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