Part I: The Negotiating Context
1. The Climate Change Problem
1.1 The problem
1.2 The science
1.3 The impacts
1.4 The policy
1.5 Tips and Tricks

2. The Climate Convention and the Kyoto Protocol
2.1 The key documents in the regime
2.2 The FCCC, 1992
2.3 The Kyoto Protocol
2.4 Tips and tricks

3. The Bodies in the Regime
3.1 The need for executing agencies
3.2 The bodies established by the Convention and the Protocol
3.3 Other formal bodies
3.4 The informal groups
3.5 The formal and the informal
3.6 Tips and tricks

4. The Rules of Procedure
4.1 Why are rules of procedure important?
4.2 The Rules of Procedure
4.3 Key issues in the Rules of Procedure
4.4 Outstanding issues in the Rules of Procedure
4.5 Consensus is not unanimity
4.6 Role of President or Chairman
4.7 The nomenclature of documents
4.8 Tips and tricks

5. State and Non-State Actors
5.1 State actors
5.2 Non-state actors
5.3 Tips and tricks

6. Coalitions in the Climate Change Regime
6.1 The importance of coalitions
6.2 The two major negotiating blocs (power-based coalitions)
6.3 The divisions within the blocs (issue-based and political)
6.4 The divisions across the groups in Non-Annex I
6.5 The divisions across the blocs
6.6 Tips and tricks

7. The G-77 and China
7.1 The need for G-77 and China
7.2 The membership of G-77 and China
7.3 The purpose of G-77 and China
7.4 The challenges in the G-77 and China
7.5 Tips and tricks

Part II: Negotiating Skills
8. The Ideal Negotiator
8.1 Negotiating theory
8.2 Preparing for the negotiations
8.3 Positions and bargaining
8.4 Tips and tricks

9. The Handicapped Negotiator
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The negotiator in the domestic context - the hollow mandate
9.3 The negotiator at the negotiations - the handicapped negotiating power
9.4 Negotiating strategy
9.5 Tips and tricks

10. Coping Strategies
10.1 Filling a hollow mandate
10.2 Coping with handicapped negotiating power
10.3 Coping with handicapped negotiating power: Strategies
10.4 Drafting
10.5 Submitting
10.6 Speaking
10.7 Tips and tricks

11. Tips and Tricks for the Lonely Diplomat
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Memorize and keep with you
11.3 Making sense of the reading material
11.4 Preparing for the actual negotiations
11.5 Getting your bearings
11.6 Drafting
11.7 Negotiating
11.8 Optimizing participation
11.9 Monitor the progress of others
11.10 Focus
11.11 From sustenance to diplomatic encounters

12. Index to the FCCC

13. References