Katja Doose (2021): A global problem in a divided world: climate
change research during the late Cold War, 1972–1991, Cold War History, DOI:
10.1080/14682745.2021.1885377
This article argues that global environmental changes provided a
fruitful ground for scientific collaboration during the Cold War.
Taking the climate research cooperation of the 1972 US-USSR
Agreement on Environmental Protection as a lens, this article shows
how both superpowers, initially involved in weather warfare against
each other, soon cooperated to tackle the rising problem of climate
change. The study reveals that while the cooperation was foremost a
scientific undertaking driven by the need for data it nevertheless
constantly oscillated between scientific collaboration to advance
one’s own research agenda and the political tensions of the Cold
War rivalry.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682745.2021.1885377