Worth Saving: International Diplomacy to Protect the Environment

Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction to International Environmental Politics
	1.1 The International State System and the UN
	1.2 Organizing Themes
	1.3 Purpose of the Book
	References
2 International Environmental Diplomacy Begins
	2.1 State of the Global Environment
	2.2 The Conversation Begins
	2.3 At Stockholm
	2.4 After Stockholm, 1972
	References
3 Institutionalizing UNEP
	3.1 Establishing UNEP
	3.2 UNEP Goes to Work
	3.3 Catalyzing Cooperation
	3.4 Forward March?
	References
4 Oceans, Seas, and Whales
	4.1 Tragedy of the Commons
	4.2 Whaling
	4.3 Law of the Seas
	4.4 UNEP's Regional Seas
	4.5 Regimes
	References
5 Protecting the Ozone Layer
	5.1 From Science to Vienna
	5.2 From Vienna to Montreal
	5.3 The Gold Standard of Treaties
	5.4 New Models Emerge
	5.5 What’s Next?
	References
6 Regulating the Movement of Hazardous Waste
	6.1 Hazardous Waste Laws Within the United States
	6.2 Toward the Basel Convention
	6.3 New Developments
	6.4 International Environmental Justice
	6.5 Two-Level Games
	References
7 The Earth Summit and Its Aftermath
	7.1 Organizing the Conference
	7.2 The Earth Summit
	7.3 The Earth Summit Legacy
	References
8 Climate Change and Global Warming
	8.1 The Science, the Skeptics, and the IPCC
	8.2 The UNFCCC
	8.3 The Kyoto Protocol
	8.4 To Regime or Not to Regime
	References
9 Conserving Biodiversity
	9.1 Rationale for the Biodiversity Convention
	9.2 The CBD
	9.3 The CBD and TRIPS
	9.4 The Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols
	9.5 Analysis
	References
10 Limiting Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
	10.1 Limiting Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
	10.2 Negotiating the Rotterdam Convention
	10.3 Negotiating the Stockholm POPs Convention
	10.4 The Hazardous Waste Regime
	References
11 Implementing Goals and Targets for Sustainability
	11.1 International Organizations
	11.2 The Draft Emerges
	11.3 All Important Implementation
	11.4 Global Governance and the MDGs
	References
12 The WSSD
	12.1 Johannesburg
	12.2 Why Do Conferences Fail?
	References
13 Climate Change, Redux
	13.1 COP 6bis and COP 7
	13.2 The European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme
	13.3 “Son of Kyoto”
	13.4 The Bali Road Map to Copenhagen
	13.5 From Copenhagen to Paris
	13.6 Climate Scholarship
	References
14 Transforming the World Through the 2030 ASD
	14.1 Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs
	14.2 New Goals and Targets
	14.3 Critiques, Changes, and Challenges
	References
15 Conclusions
	15.1 Does International Environmental Diplomacy Make a Difference?
	15.2 Complexity, Change, and Continuity Revisited
	15.3 The Future of Scholarship
	15.4 Hope for the Future
	References
Index