The History of Global Climate Governance

Cover -- The History of Global Climate Governance -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part One Introduction -- 1 Grasping the essentials of the climate change problem -- 1.1 Climate change intertwined with life -- 1.2 Science, scientific uncertainty and climate sceptics -- 1.2.1 The problem -- 1.2.2 Sceptics and their rebuttal -- 1.3 Climate change as an economic issue in an anarchic world -- 1.3.1 A sceptical framing of climate change -- 1.3.2 Countering this framework -- 1.4 Climate change as a classic North-South issue -- 1.4.1 The carbon budget and the ecospace problem -- 1.4.2 GHG emissions and development -- Patterns of development: Is sustainable development automatic? -- How to develop? -- The right to develop -- Climate change as a classic North-South issue -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Mitigation, adaptation and geo-engineering -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Climate change and development -- 2.3 Options to deal with climate change -- 2.4 Systemic changes -- 2.5 Dealing with underlying driving forces -- 2.5.1 Introduction -- 2.5.2 Options and issues -- 2.6 Dealing with proximate driving forces: mitigation and sequestration options -- 2.6.1 Introduction -- 2.6.2 Options and issues -- 2.7 Dealing with atmospheric concentrations and warming -- 2.7.1 Introduction -- 2.7.2 Options and issues -- 2.8 Dealing with impacts -- 2.8.1 Introduction -- 2.8.2 Options and issues -- 2.9 Dealing with residual impacts -- 2.9.1 Introduction -- 2.9.2 Options and issues -- 2.10 Structure and outline of this book -- 2.11 Inferences -- Part Two The history of the negotiations -- 3 Setting the stage: defining the climate problem (until 1990) -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The chronology of events -- 3.3 The problem definition and measures discussed -- 3.3.1 The problem definition.