1; Introduction; 2; Science and the international politics of global warming; 3 ; Frameworks of analysis: the institutional approach and the issue-based approach; 4 ; Making global warming policy; 5 ; Policy developments in Japan on global warming: the politics of conflict and the producer-oriented policy response ; 6; Co-optation and exclusion: controlled policy integration in Japan; 7; Policy developments in Britain on global warming: in search of political leadership; 8; Competition and pressure: British policy integration ; 9. Interests, institutions and global warming 10; Epilogue: after the Kyoto conference; References; Figure 2.1"The mechanism of the greenhouse effect. Source: Houghton et al. (1992: 7).; Figure 2.2"Contribution of global greenhouse gases to the enhanced greenhouse effect. PFCs = CF4 and C2F6. HFCs = HFC-23, HFC-134a, HFC-152a. Source: IPCC (2001a: 356-8). Figure 2.3"Indicators of the human influence on the atmosphere during the industrial era (global atmospheric concentrations of three well mixed greenhouse gases). Note that the ice core and fern data for several sites in Antarctica and Greenland (shown by Figure 2.4"Combined air and sea surface temperature anomalies (°C), 1861-2000, relative to 1961-90. Note that the bars on the annual number represent two standard errors. Source: IPCC (2001a: 26). ; Figure 2.5"Temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations over the last 160,000 years (from ice cores). Source: Houghton (2002). Figure 3.1"The relationship between type of cabinet and interest group pluralism, 1945-96. The percentage of one-party cabinets is the proportion over the period of cabinets in which there was a one-party majority. Interest group pluralism is a rating deriFigure 3.2"The relationship between the effective number of parliamentary parties and interest group pluralism, 1945-96. Source: Lijphart (1999: 183).; Figure 4.1"Economic structures (value added) in Japan and the UK in 1990 and 2000. Source: OECD (2001).