Climate Change Agreements: Sue Biniaz Describes How Negotiators Got to Yes
Former State Department Deputy Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, who has served as the Department's top environmental lawyer for more than twenty-five years and is now teaching at Columbia Law School, has written a fascinating new paper entitled "Comma But Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Differences in the International Climate Change Regime," in which she describes some practical devices
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Former State Department Deputy Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, who has served as the Department's top environmental lawyer for more than twenty-five years and is now teaching at Columbia Law School, has written a fascinating new paper entitled "Comma But Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Differences in the International Climate Change Regime," in which she describes some practical devices negotiators have used to reach international climate change agreements, from using the vague "inter alia" to strategic use of the comma.
Although her paper focuses on climate agreements, Sue is a veteran treaty negotiator, and her practical examples are relevant to many treaty negotiations.
If you ever wondered how 190-plus countries could reach agreement on issues where they have real policy differences, this paper tells you how.
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