Soviet-American Climate Change Working Group VIII: scientific cooperation and scientific diplomaсy

Abstract

One of the benchmark events of the 1970s was the Soviet-
American intergovernmental agreement, which resulted, among other things, in the
establishment of the Soviet-American Eighth Working Group on Climate
Change Research (WG-VIII).The history of this group has demonstrated the
potential of combining scientific research and science diplomacy to rapidly
move bilateral relations toward mutually beneficial cooperation in solving
scientific problems of global significance. This cooperation was very successful,
despite the difficult interstate relations between the countries.