Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next

Stern, Todd

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-08
  • 售價: $1,340
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 280
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049147
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049146
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商品描述

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015--and where the international climate effort needs to go from here.

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was one of the most difficult and hopeful achievements of the twenty-first century: 195 nations finally agreed, after 20 years of trying, to establish an ambitious, operational regime to address one of the greatest civilizational challenges of our time. In Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, Todd Stern, the chief US negotiator on climate change, provides an engaging account from inside the rooms where it happened: the full, charged, seven-year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret U.S.-China climate deal in 2014, to Paris itself.

With a storyteller's gift for character, suspense, and detail, Stern crafts a high-stakes narrative that illuminates the strategy, policy, politics, and diplomacy that made Paris possible. Introducing readers to a vivid cast of characters, including Xie Zenhua, Vice Minister of China's National Development and Reform Commission, Bo Lidegaard, chief strategist for Denmark's Prime Minster, and Indian minister Jairam Ramesh, Stern, who worked alongside President Barack Obama and Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, depicts the pitfalls and challenges overcome, the shifting alliances, the last-minute maneuvering, and the ultimate historic success. The book concludes with a final chapter that describes key developments since 2015 and the author's reflections on what needs to be done going forward to contain the climate threat.

A unique peek behind the curtain of one of the most important international agreements of our time, Landing the Paris Climate Agreement is a vital and fascinating read for anyone who cares about the future of our one shared home.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

來自美國氣候變遷首席談判代表的內部報導,講述了這場持續七年的談判,最終於2015年達成巴黎氣候協定,以及國際氣候努力接下來的方向。

2015年的巴黎氣候協定是21世紀最艱難且充滿希望的成就之一:195個國家在經過20年的努力後,終於同意建立一個雄心勃勃且可操作的體系,以應對當前文明面臨的最大挑戰之一。在《Landing the Paris Climate Agreement》一書中,氣候變遷首席談判代表Todd Stern提供了一個引人入勝的內部故事,講述了巴黎協定的形成過程,從哥本哈根到德班,再到2014年美中氣候協議的秘密談判,最終到達巴黎。

Stern以講故事的天賦,展現了角色、懸念和細節,編織出一個高風險的敘事,揭示了使巴黎成為可能的策略、政策、政治和外交。他介紹了生動的角色,包括中國國家發展和改革委員會副主任謝振華、丹麥首相的首席策略師Bo Lidegaard,以及印度部長Jairam Ramesh。Stern曾與總統巴拉克·奧巴馬及國務卿約翰·克里和希拉蕊·克林頓並肩工作,描繪了克服的陷阱和挑戰、變化的聯盟、最後時刻的操作,以及最終的歷史性成功。書的最後一章描述了自2015年以來的關鍵發展,以及作者對未來應該採取的行動以應對氣候威脅的反思。

《Landing the Paris Climate Agreement》提供了一個獨特的視角,讓讀者窺見這一時代最重要的國際協議之一,對於任何關心我們共同家園未來的人來說,這本書都是一個重要且引人入勝的讀物。

作者簡介

Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a nonresident distinguished fellow at the Asia Society, concentrating on climate change. He served from January 2009 until April 2016 as the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State, where he was President Barack Obama's chief climate negotiator.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

托德·斯特恩是布魯金斯學會的非駐地高級研究員,以及亞洲協會的非駐地傑出研究員,專注於氣候變遷。他於2009年1月至2016年4月擔任美國國務院的氣候變遷特使,並擔任巴拉克·奧巴馬總統的首席氣候談判代表。