Climate policy: showdown in Berlin. (Conference of the Parties to the Rio Climate treaty)

World Watch | July 1, 1995| | Copyright

In the months leading up to the first Conference of the Parties to the Rio Climate treaty, experts had worried about how much real progress would be made on this vital global issue ("Getting Warmer: Looking For a Way Out of the Climate Impasse," March/April). And, indeed, the outcome remained in suspense well into the pre-dawn hours of the final day, April 7, as a group of exhausted diplomats - struggling to agree on the next steps to be taken by their governments - came perilously close to allowing the entire negotiation to collapse.

The final bargaining ended with a ...

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