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

"Can the global community prevent dangerous climate change? This was the mission it set itself at the 1992 Earth Summit, and this was the concern that prompted 100,000 demonstrators to turn out in the streets of New York in September 2014, when the UN secretary-general convened a global climate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sweet, William, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:degruyterct.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.