Ozone Diplomacy
Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as "a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of negotiation," and cited in Nature for its "worthwhile insights on the harnessing of science and diplomacy," the first edition of Ozone Diplomacy offered an insider's view of the politics, economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the precedent-setting treaty to protect the Earth: the 1987...
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Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as "a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of negotiation," and cited in Nature for its "worthwhile insights on the harnessing of science and diplomacy," the first edition of Ozone Diplomacy offered an insider's view of the politics, economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the precedent-setting treaty to protect the Earth: the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer.The first edition ended with a discussion of the revisions to the protocol in 1990 and offered lessons for global diplomacy regarding the then just-maturing climate change issue. Now Richard Benedick—a principal architect and the chief U.S. negotiator of the historic treaty—expands the ozone story, bringing us to the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. He describes subsequent negotiations to deal with unexpected major scientific discoveries and important amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the protocol's signatories to confront complex economic and political problems, including North-South financial and technology transfer issues, black markets for banned CFCs, revisionism, and industry's willingness and ability to develop new technologies and innovative substitutes. In his final chapter Benedick offers a new analysis applying the lessons of the ozone experience to ongoing climate change negotiations.Ozone Diplomacy has frequently been cited as the definitive book on the most successful environment treaty, and is essential reading for those concerned about the future of our planet. New Scientist Richard Benedick is not your average diplomat. A decade ago, industrialists tried to get him sacked as US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol meeting that banned the ozone-eating CFCs. He survived to tell that and many other stories in the new 'enlarged edition' of Ozone Diplomacy. Updated to last September, it is still the definitive story of the world's first and so far most successful global environmental treaty.
Foreword to the First EditionPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Enlarged EditionAbbreviations1Lessons from History12The Science: Models of Uncertainty93Spray Cans and Europolitics234Prelude to Consensus405Forging the U.S. Position516The Sequence of Negotiations687Points of Debate778The Immediate Aftermath989New Science, New Urgency10810The Road to Helsinki11811The Protocol in Evolution12912The South Claims a Role14813Strong Decisions in London16314Accelerating the Phaseout19315A New Phase for the Protocol21816"Common but Differentiated Responsibilities"24117Promoting Compliance26918New Controls for North and South28719A New Global Diplomacy: Ozone Lessons and Climate Change306Chronology335App. AVienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, March 1985341App. BMontreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, September 1987353App. CLondon Revisions to the Montreal Protocol, June 1990 (Excerpts)365App. DMontreal Protocol Phaseout Schedules379App. ETerms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund381App. FTerms of Reference of the Executive Committee385App. GNoncompliance Procedure388App. HThe Nearly Universal Treaty: Parties to the 1985 Vienna Convention and 1987 Montreal Protocol, with Ratifications to the 1990 London Amendment and 1992 Copenhagen Amendment390Notes395Select Ozone Bibliography434Index436
\ Foreign AffairsThis superb book...makes clear that governments will often have to act while there is still much scientific uncertainty...An authoritative, well-written work.\ \ \ \ \ \ New ScientistRichard Benedick is not your average diplomat. A decade ago, industrialists tried to get him sacked as US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol meeting that banned the ozone-eating CFCs. He survived to tell that and many other stories in the new 'enlarged edition' of Ozone Diplomacy. Updated to last September, it is still the definitive story of the world's first and so far most successful global environmental treaty.\ \ \ \ The US government's negotiator in discussions that led to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer recounts how the dedicated team saved the world from possible destruction. Also available in paper (65001-8), $10.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ \ \ This superb book...makes clear that governments will often have to act while there is still much scientific uncertainty...an authoritative, well-written work. -- Foreign Affairs\ \
