Environmental Diplomacy Project

Featured Posting

The Folkets Hus Building (center) in Stockholm, Sweden

50 Years of U.S. Resistance to Environmental Reparations

Washington, D.C., July 6, 2023 – As the world’s wealthiest countries continue to avoid making serious financial commitments to developing states on the front lines of the climate…

Jul 6, 2023

Previous Postings

From History to Poetry: Mai Der Vang Explores the Archival Record in Her Celebrated Volume "Yellow Rain"

Jun 27, 2022

Nuclear Winter: U.S. Government Thinking During the 1980s

Jun 2, 2022

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security Sherri Goodman

Climate Change and the Military: Examining the Pentagon’s Integration of National Security Interests and Environmental Goals under Clinton

May 26, 2022

Convening of a COP session at the Kyoto climate change conference in late 1997. (Photo credit: UN image, Frank Leather)

National Security and Climate Change:
Behind the U.S. Pursuit of Military Exemptions to the Kyoto Protocol

Jan 20, 2022

The Clinton White House and Climate Change, Part II: Engaging the Oval Office

Apr 5, 2021

The Clinton White House and Climate Change: Model for Biden?

Feb 25, 2021

The U.S. and Climate Change: Washington’s See-Saw on Global Leadership

Sep 24, 2018

Soviet nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank north of Bermuda in 1986

Oct 7, 2016

Bikini A-Bomb Tests July 1946

Jul 22, 2016

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About this Project

The Environmental Diplomacy Project focuses on uncovering the documents that illuminate the policy debates and decisions that guided the United States in two key series of climate change negotiations. The first series centers on the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, the most successful environmental agreement reached to date, which agreed upon in the Reagan administration. The second series focuses on the efforts to reach agreement on a treaty to curb the greenhouse emissions that are driving global climate warming. These negotiations, carried out under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted in 1992, center on the Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, and the efforts to reach agreement on a post-Kyoto agreement, which produced the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in December 2015.

Blog Posts

Special Climate Envoy John Kerry Says “No Climate Reparations” for Developing Countries, Continuing the U.S. Government’s Long Opposition to Environmental Compensation

Aug 1, 2023

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Project Publications

James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
Nov 23, 1993

The Diplomacy of Climate Change: U.S. Policy from the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015

Edited by Dr. Robert A. Wampler

More than 2,400 documents fully catalogued and indexed

Convening of a COP session at the Kyoto climate change conference in late 1997. (Photo credit: UN image, Frank Leather)

The most comprehensive compilation of its kind on this critical topic. Covers 35 years of key developments and controversy in U.S. climate change policy, from Montreal to Kyoto to Paris. Features top-level White House, State Department, Treasury, and EPA documents, CIA analyses, and U.N. reports on the key negotiations.

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