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.

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Enlarged Edition

Abbreviations

1 Lessons from History

2 The Science: Models of Uncertainty

3 Spray Cans and Europolitics

4 Prelude to Consensus

5 Forging the U.S. Position

6 The Sequence of Negotiations

7 Points of Debate

8 The Immediate Aftermath

9 New Science, New Urgency

10 The Road to Helsinki

11 The Protocol in Evolution

12 The South Claims a Role

13 Strong Decisions in London

14 Accelerating the Phaseout

15 A New Phase for the Protocol

16 "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities"

17 Promoting Compliance

18 New Controls for North and South

19 A New Global Diplomacy: Ozone Lessons and Climate Change

Chronology

Appendix A. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, March 1985

Appendix B. Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, September 1987

Appendix C. London Revisions to the Montreal Protocol, June 1990 (Excerpts)

Appendix D. Montreal Protocol Phaseout Schedules

Appendix E. Terms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund

Appendix F. Terms of Reference of the Executive Committee

Appendix G. Noncompliance Procedure

Appendix H. The Nearly Universal Treaty: Parties to the 1985 ViennaConvention and the 1987 Montreal Protocol, with Ratifications to the1990 London Amendment and 1992 Copenhagen Amendment

Notes

Select Ozone Bibliography

Index

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