The Politics of Climate Changeprovides a critical analysis of the political, moral and legal response to climate change in the midst of significant socio-economic policy shifts. Evolving from original EC commissioned research, this book examines how climate change was put on the policy agenda, with the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention and subsequent Conference of Parties. The international team of contributors devote in-depth chapters to:* climate change policies of different nations* reductions of greenhouse gas emmissions* legal aspects of external competence and moral obligatons* the political significance of the European experience within the wider global perspectives of America and Asia. | The Politics of Climate Change by Tim O'riordan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters