Explaining goal achievement in international negotiations: the EU and the Paris Agreement on climate change

Oberthür, Sebastian; Groen, Lisanne

doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1291708

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“…By 2015 the worst of the recession had passed and favourable economic conditions such as the dramatic and unexpected fall in the price of renewable energy facilitated further commitments from governments to transition to a zero-carbon economy. Last but not least, the convergence of the US and China, the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, was certainly a necessary condition for a successful outcome (Oberthuer and Groen 2018).…”

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Mutual Recognition in Global Negotiations: The Case of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit

Walker

2018

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This working paper responds to calls for practical and implementable changes that can enhance global justice. It applies the GLOBUS conception of justice as mutual recognition to global negotiations, which have become prominent arenas for questions of distributive justice between the North and South across multiple issue areas including trade, climate change and environmental protection. Yet the focus of this paper is procedural justice. The case of the French Presidency of the 2015 UN negotiations that led to the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is studied and put forward as a positive example of a just process. Furthermore, it is argued that procedural justice was instrumental in facilitating the reaching of agreement by increasing delegates' willingness to agree. Previous accounts of procedural justice at the global level are largely concerned with questions of transparency and representativeness. By framing procedural justice around the concept of mutual recognition, it offers a more comprehensive understanding which is aligned with psychological accounts of procedural justice. In this way, it recognises the importance of individuals and socio-psychological considerations in international relations.

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Section: Context and Methodologymentioning

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Mutual Recognition in Global Negotiations: The Case of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit

Walker

2018

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“…Sustainability promotion is reflected in the EU's quest for clean energy and its fight against global climate change (Bäckstrand and Elgström 2013;Oberthür and Groen 2018). Further integration in these two areas appears likely.…”

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Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

Thaler

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2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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Member States have retained core competences in external energy policy since the beginning of European integration. Even the new 'energy chapter' in the Lisbon Treaty safeguards national prerogatives. Contrasting this trend, we show that throughout the past decade this national stronghold has been eroding and replaced by supranational oversight. Reviewing energy-related negotiations of Poland and Lithuania with Russia and new regulation on intergovernmental agreements, we demonstrate how the Commission gained control over Member States' external energy relations. We explain the expansion of supranational authority with spillover pressures equipping the Commission with new procedural prerogatives. Central to this development was the institutionalisation a novel supranational instrument we call 'real-time compliance'. The term denotes the prompt application of soft and coercive means, ensuring compliance of energy agreements between Member States and third countries with EU rules.This expansion of supranational powers through procedural competences has implications for debates on European energy policy and European integration.

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“…The Paris Agreement is indeed a result of this process. Furthermore, the literature as well as reports by observing participants give evidence that the EU had a clear impact and assumed a formative role during the negotiations in Paris (Bergamaschi et al 2016;Dimitrov 2016;Oberthür 2016;Oberthür and Groen 2017). The next section deals with the EU's diplomatic activity in the run-up to Paris and seeks to trace its efforts in bringing about the Paris Agreement, including the entailed instances of solidarisation.…”

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“…The EU therefore overestimated its persuasive power, because in circumstances, which are marked by highly dispersed power structures, leading by example turned out extremely difficult (Wurzel and Connelly 2011, 9). Thus, rather than relying on the normative persuasiveness of its own position, many have pointed out that the EU would have had to put much more effort in coalitionbuilding and the active organisation of outreach to third actors (Bäckstrand and Elgström 2013;Biedenkopf 2016;Oberthür and Groen 2017;Oberthür and Wyns 2014;Schunz 2012Schunz , 2015. In the aftermath of Copenhagen, the EU indeed revised its diplomatic strategy and improved its efforts in coalition-building and outreach to third actors significantly.…”

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“…Another crucial network for bridge-building between developed and developing states was the Cartagena Dialogue for Progressive Action (Biedenkopf 2016;Oberthür 2016). The same informal structures and diplomatic links culminated during the Paris summit in the formation of the high ambition coalition, which played a major role in bringing about the Paris Agreement (Oberthür and Groen 2017;Interview 2017bInterview , 2017c. Initially an alliance between the EU and a number of smaller developing countries, the coalition managed to gain support by the US, Japan and Brazil, the latter being particularly important because it split up the traditionally non-progressive BASIC group (Obergassel et al 2016, 10).…”

Section: Solidarisation Through a Change In Diplomatic Activitymentioning

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The Solidarisation of International Society: The EU in the Global Climate Change Regime

Ahrens

2017

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The European Union more often than not is either assumed or expected to play a leading role in international politics of climate change. This expectation emanates largely from the assumption that the EU as a normative power is able to induce change in international society. This paper intends to explore this assumed transformative potential of the EU in the specific context of climate politics. Suggesting an English School approach, in this paper I conceptualise the EU's potential transformative impact as the solidarisation of international society. The advantage of such an analytical perspective is that it directs the focus on tensions and ambiguities that always and unavoidably exist in processes of change. In the paper, I first elaborate on the conceptualisation of change as solidarisation. Second, I spell out in detail what such a solidarisation means in international climate politics. Third, an empirical analysis of the EU's discourse and practices in climate politics reveals whether the EU indeed acts as a source of solidarisation in this particular policy field. In contrast to the widespread assumption that consistency is key to change, this paper suggests that accepting and embracing ambiguities indeed enhances the EU's contribution to solidarisation.

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Explaining goal achievement in international negotiations: the EU and the Paris Agreement on climate change

Cited by 103 publications

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Mutual Recognition in Global Negotiations: The Case of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit

Mutual Recognition in Global Negotiations: The Case of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit

Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

The Solidarisation of International Society: The EU in the Global Climate Change Regime

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