Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, Enlarged Edition (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

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Richard Benedick, an architect and chief US negotiator for the Montreal treaty, expands upon the first edition of his book. He describes subsequent negotiations to deal with unexpected scientific discoveries and amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the protocol's signatories including North-South financial and technology transfer issues, black markets for banned CFC's, 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 experiments to ongoing climate change negotiations.

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Richard Benedick, an architect and chief US negotiator for the Montreal treaty, expands upon the first edition of his book. He describes subsequent negotiations to deal with unexpected scientific discoveries and amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the protocol's signatories including North-South financial and technology transfer issues, black markets for banned CFC's, 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 experiments to ongoing climate change negotiations.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 470
Edition: Enlarged ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 27 Feb 1998
ISBN 10: 0674650034
ISBN 13: 9780674650039

Media Reviews

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 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. New Scientist

Author Bio

Ambassador Richard Elliot Benedick has had extensive diplomatic and negotiating experience in the U.S. Foreign Service. As a result of his work on the historic Montreal Protocol, he received in 1988 the highest presidential career public service honor: the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. In September 1997 he received the United Nations Environment Programme's Ozone Award for his work in negotiating the protocol and subsequent efforts on behalf of the ozone layer.