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

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

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated...
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Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next by Stern, Todd

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

BD$49.50

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

BD$49.50
Author: Todd Stern
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Todd Stern
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780262049146


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2024
Library Journal 09/01/2024 pg. 92
Foreword 08/14/2024

About the Author
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.

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