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• catalog contributor b12519291.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-171) and index.".
• catalog extent "xv, 178 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Our simmering planet.".
• catalog identifier "0864865139 (Southern Africa : pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "1552660672 (Canada : pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "1842770780 (Zed Books)".
• catalog identifier "1842770799 (Zed Books : pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Our simmering planet.".
• catalog isPartOf "Global issues in a changing world".
• catalog isPartOf "Global issues series (Zed Books)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Zed Books ; distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave,".
• catalog relation "Our simmering planet.".
• catalog subject "363.738/747 21".
• catalog subject "Climatic changes Environmental aspects.".
• catalog subject "Climatic changes.".
• catalog subject "Global warming.".
• catalog subject "QC981.8.G56 G86 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Our simmering planet : what to do about global warming? / Joyeeta Gupta.".
• catalog type "text".