Climate negotiations are continually plagued by competing national and business interests that create stumbling blocks to success. This book approaches these blocks from five professional perspectives. They identify major problems, including great power strategies, leadership, the role of NGOs, capacity-and knowledge-building, airline emissions, risk transfer instruments, cost benefit analysis, the IPCC, and verification and institutional design.

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Professional Perspectives 1. The perspective of a Politician - How Decisions are Made 2. The New Diplomacy from the Perspective of a Diplomat - Facilitation of the Post-Kyoto Climate Talks 3. Costs and Uncertanties in Climate Change Negotiations: A Scientist's Perspective 4. The Observing International Lawyer 5. Climate Talks - The Observing Sociologist Part 3: Stumbling blocks 6. Defining a Politically Feasible Path for Future Climate Negotiations - the EU-USA divide over the Kyoto Protocol 7. Between Two Giants - Lessons from the Russian Policy on Kyoto Protocol 8. Leadership and Climate Talks-Historical Lessons in Agenda Setting 9. GO Participation in the Global Climate Change Decision-making Process - A Key for Facilitating Climate Talks 10. Institutional Capacity to Facilitate Climate Change Negotiations 11. Stumbling Blocks in a Sectoral Approach - Addressing the Global Warming Effect through the Airline Industry 12. Overcoming stumbling blocks: Can the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deliver in Adaptation? 13. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities - The North-South Divide in the Climate Change Negotiations 14. Developing a Legal Toolkit- Institutional Options to Remove Stumbling Blocks in the Climate Change Negotiations 15. Verification as a Precondition for Binding Commitments - Facilitation through Trust 16. Difficulties of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Climate Negotiations: Stumbling Blocks for Reaching an Agreement 17. Proposal for Insurance for Facilitation of Adaptation Part 4: Conclusion: Strategic Facilitation of Climate Talks