At what was widely anticipated to be one of the most important international meetings in
decades, with profound implications for the world's future, representatives of 193 nations met …

F or many years, climate change was a technical issue that only concerned a small number
of scientists and policymakers. 1 At the 1988 Toronto Conference on the Changing …

Over the past three decades, climate change has moved from being a minor, mostly
scientific, matter in the affairs of states to being a prominent, frontburner foreign policy …

Back in 2001, two global toxics treaties offered a rare opportunity for US leadership in the
international environmental policy arena. Today not only is the opportunity for leadership …

T he United States has been an important actor in multilateral negotiations on stratospheric
ozone depletion and climate change. In the mid-1970s it was responsible for about half of all …

Environmental diplomacy can be broken into two general categories: conventions regulating
the use of natural resources, and conventions regulating pollution. In each case, the central …

In the United States, the case for greater action on climate change is typically made on
environmental grounds. But there are equally compelling economic, geopolitical, and …

International relations have long focused on managing conflict and competition. The result is
a virtual obsession with power and leadership, categories which are largely meaningless for …

Climate change presents both a challenge and an opportunity for US foreign policy.
Because the benefits of taking action depend on reciprocal efforts by others, international …

Address to the alumni and faculty of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, April 9, 1996
hank you very much for that kind introduction. I am especially honored to be introduced by …