Weathering the weather: Local weather calamities occuring globally -- Climate instability and global warming: the Evidence: What is climate change ; The significance of laboratory predictions -- Climate change negotiations: From optimism to pragmatism: Climate change treaty and its provisions ; COP-3: the Kyoto Protocol -- Kyoto regime and its controversies -- Players and their concerns: Caught between domestic opposition and international commitments -- Game of coalitions -- Non-state actors and coalitions: Environmental NGOs -- Due process and the rule of law: Towards decreasing transparency -- Saving face is saving faith

1. Global warming
2. Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects