Bolin (2007) "A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change", Table of contents

Contents
Foreword /Bo Kjellén
Abbreviations
Part I. The early history of the climate issue
 - 1. Nineteenth-century discoveries
 - 2. The natural carbon cycle and life on earth
 - - 2.1 Glimpses of the historical development of our knowledge
 - - 2.2 A simplified view of the present carbon cycle
 - 3. Global research initiatives in meteorology and climatology
 - - 3.1 Building scientific networks
 - - - 3.1.1 The formative years
 - - - 3.1.2 The GARP tropical experiment begins
 - - - 3.1.3 The GATE as a starting point for global climate studies
 - - 3.2 Conceern for the environment reaches the political agenda
 - - 3.3 The Global Atmospheric Research Programme becomes engaged in the climate issue
 - 4. Early international assessments of climate change
 - - 4.1 Initiation of assessments aimed at politicians and society
Part II. The climate change issue becomes one of global concern
 - 5. Setting the stage
 - - 5.1 The report by the Un Commission on Environment and Development
 - - 5.2 How to create a forum for interaction between science and politics
 - - 5.3 The IPCC is formed and a first assessment is begun
 - 6. The scientific basis for a climate convention
 - - 6.1 Work begins
 - - 6.2 Politicians are anxious to show their concern for the environment
 - - 6.3 The IPCC works towards the completion of the First Assessment Report
 - - - 6.3.1 Working group I. The scientific assessment
 - - - 6.3.2 Working group II. Impact assessment
 - - - 6.3.3 Working group III. Response strategies
 - - 6.4 The acceptance and approval of the IPCC First Assessment Report
 - - 6.5 Scientific input in the negotiations about a framework convention
 - - 6.6 What has experience so far to say about the role of science?
 - 7. Serving the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
 - - 7.1 Changes in the IPCC structure and new members of the Bureau
 - - 7.2 Cooperation with the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
 - - 7.3 Predictions or scenarios of future changes of the global climate?
 - - 7.4 Attempting to put Article 2 of the Climate Convention into focus
 - - 7.5 Equity and social considerations
 - - 7.6 Growing awareness of climate change and polarisation of opinions
 - - 7.7 The approval of the 1994 IPCC special report runs into difficulties
 - - 7.8 Preparing for the future role of the IPCC
 - 8. The IPCC second assessment report
 - - 8.1 First party converence of the FCCC
 - - 8.2 The IPCC Second Assessment Report
 - - - 8.2.1 Working Group I assessment report, "Science of Climate Change": approved in Madrid, 27-29 November 1995
 - - - 8.2.2 Working Group II assessment report, "Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation": approved in Montreal, 16-20 October 1995
 - - - 8.2.3 Working Group III assessment report, "Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change": approved in Geneva 25-28 July, and Montreal 11-14 October 1995
 - - 8.3 Stabilisation of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations
 - - 8.4 The synthesis report
 - 9. In the aftermath of the IPCC second assessment
 - - 9.1 The post-Second Assessment Report discussions of an action programme to be agreed in Kyoto
 - - 9.2 The IPCC assessment is challenged
 - - - 9.2.1 Some basic scientific issues arise
 - - - 9.2.2 Objections from industry and its supporters
 - - - 9.2.3 The US Administration and Democrats in US Congress support the IPCC assessment
 - - - 9.2.4 The IPCC second assessment causes fewer controversies in Europe
 - - 9.3 Preparations for the third conference of the parties to FCCC in Kyoto
 - - - 9.3.1 Focusing on reducing emissoins and stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations
 - - - 9.3.2 The USA formulates its strategy on the issue of climate change
 - - 9.4 Increasing industrialisation and globalisation of the world
 - - 9.5 Starting work towards a third assessment
 - 10. The Kyoto Protocol is agreed and a third assessment begun
 - - 10.1 Central themes of the Protocol
 - - - 10.1.1 Targets and timetables
 - - - 10.1.2 Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
 - - - 10.1.3 Sources and sinks
 - - - 10.1.4 Tradable emission permits
 - - 10.2 The interplay of science and politics
 - - 10.3 Opposition to the Kyoto Protocol grows
 - - 10.4 How to settle disagreements on the interpretation of the Kyoto Protocol
 - 11. A decade of hesitance and slow progress
 - - 11.1 Work towards the IPCC Third Assessment Report
 - - - 11.1.1 The Working Group I contribution to the TAR: "Scientific Basis": summary for policymakers adopted 17-20 January 2001 in Shanghai
 - - - 11.1.2 Working Group II contribution to the TAR, "Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability": summary for policymakers adopted 13-16 Feb. 2001 in Geneva
 - - - 11.1.3 Working Group III contribution to the TAR, "Mitigation": summary for policymakers adopted in Accra, Ghana, 28 February to 3 March 2001
 - - 11.2 Resistance towrds taking action and political manoeuvring
 - - 11.3 Other challenges of the IPCC conclusions
 - - 11.4 The leadership of the IPCC is challenged
 - - 11.5 Ratifications of the Kyoto Protocol
 - - 11.6 The eleventh conference of the parties to the Climate Convention
Part III. Are we at a turning point in addressing climate change?
 - 12. Key scientific findings of prime political relevance
 - - 12.1 The general setting
 - - 12.2 The story of global warming told to politicians, stakeholders and the public
 - - - 12.2.1 To deal with controversies
 - - - 12.2.2 Global scale climate changes
 - - - 12.2.3 Regional and local changes
 - - 12.3 Impacts and adaptation
 - - 12.4 Science, media and the general public
 - 13. Climate change and a future sustainable global energy supply
 - - 13.1 Delayed action in spite of trustworthy scientific assessments
 - - 13.2 Past and future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols
 - - - 13.2.1 Carbon dioxide
 - - - 13.2.2 Emissions of other greenhouse gases and aerosols
 - - 13.3 Primary energy reserves and resources and their utilisation
 - - - 13.3.1 Geopolitics of fossil fuels
 - - - 13.3.2 Carbon sequestration and storage
 - - - 13.3.3 Other forms of geo-engineering
 - - - 13.3.4 Renewable energy
 - - - 13.3.5 Nuclear energy
 - - 13.4 The supply of energy under the constraints of minimising climate change
 - - - 13.4.1 The scope of the problem
 - - - 13.4.2 Incentives aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions
 - - 13.5 The need for a multidimensional approach
 - - 13.6 The economy of a transition to a sustainable energy supply system
 - - 13.7 Politics of securing a global sustainable energy supply system
Some concluding remarks
 - - The importance of trustworthy scientific knowledge in climate negotiations
Notes
References
Name index
Subject index
2019-04-10
MASUDA Kooiti
[To my introductory page of this book in Japanese]