Table of Contents

* Foreword to the First Edition by David Newsom * Preface to the First Edition * Preface to the Enlarged Edition * Abbreviations * Lessons from History * The Science: Models of Uncertainty * Spray Cans and Europolitics * Prelude to Consensus * Forging the U.S. Position * The Sequence of Negotiations * Points of Debate * The Immediate Aftermath * New Science, New Urgency * The Road to Helsinki * The Protocol in Evolution * The South Claims a Role * Strong Decisions in London * Accelerating the Phaseout * A New Phase for the Protocol *"Common but Differentiated Responsibilities" * Promoting Compliance * New Controls for North and South * 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. Londo 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 Vienna Convention and the 1987 Montreal Protocol, with Ratifications to the 1990 London Amendment and 1992 Copenhagen Amendment * Notes * Select Ozone Bibliography * Index

About the Author

Ambassador Richard Elliot Benedick has had extensive diplomatic and negotiating experience in the U.S. Foreign Service. As a result of his work on the historic Montreal Protocol, he received in 1988 the highest presidential career public service honor: the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. In September 1997 he received the United Nations Environment Programme’s Ozone Award for his work in negotiating the protocol and subsequent efforts on behalf of the ozone layer.

Reviews

This superb book…makes clear that governments will often have to act while there is still much scientific uncertainty…An authoritative, well-written work.
*Foreign Affairs*

Richard Benedick is not your average diplomat. A decade ago, industrialists tried to get him sacked as US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol meeting that banned the ozone-eating CFCs. He survived to tell that and many other stories in the new ‘enlarged edition’ of Ozone Diplomacy. Updated to last September, it is still the definitive story of the world’s first and so far most successful global environmental treaty.
*New Scientist*