Frames of Climate Change in Side Events from Kyoto to Durban

Hjerpe, Mattias; Buhr, Katarina

doi:10.1162/glep_a_00231

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“…Other studies have focused on particular modes of facilitated participation within the UNFCCC (Hjerpe and Linnér 2010; Hjerpe and Buhr 2014; Schroeder and Lovell 2012), with side-events receiving most attention on account of being deemed the 'most visible' form of NSA participation (Hjerpe and Linnér 2010). Hjerpe and Linnér identify 6 functions of side-events: building capacity; introducing potential items for negotiation; disseminating information; interconnecting people and policy areas; providing a forum for other levels of governance and legitimizing global governance, while Hjerpe and Buhr (2014) identify trends in the way in which climate change has been framed in UNFCCC sideevents. These studies suggests that side-events can be a vehicle for NSA agency as attendees benefit from access to up-to-date expertise and networking opportunities while hosts are able to introduce new ideas and to frame issues.…”

Section: Nsa Participation In Global Climate Change Governance/unfcccmentioning

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Youth participation and agency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Thew

2018

Int Environ Agreements

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This article examines the participation and agency of young non-state actors (NSAs) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It utilizes the constituency of Youth NGOs: YOUNGO, as a case study to examine the relationship between selection of participatory strategies, power sources (following Nasiritousi et al. in Int Environ Agreem Politics Law Econ 16(1):109-126, 2016), recognition and agency using ego and alter perceptions. It finds that young people's selection of participatory strategies and power sources is shaped by the level of agency which they perceive to be available to them. When self-perception of agency is high, young participants offer constructive policy amendments which can lead to recognition and agency, though only within certain policy areas and the silos in which they are negotiated. When self-perception of agency is low, youth interpret this as lack of recognition, leading to efforts to assert their relevance and/or to challenge procedural legitimacy: neither of which are well received by decision-makers. In reality, several of the challenges faced by young participants are not structurally unique to their constituency; however, their lack of financial resources does hinder their ability to fully utilize modes of participation which previous studies have found to be beneficial to other NSAs, such as side-events. Financial constraints also restrict the ability of youth participants, many of whom are volunteers, to develop professional relationships with key actors over time, meaning that the level of agency developed by more established, better-resourced NSAs remains largely out of reach. These findings have implications for the understanding of NSA agency, which has previously been treated as homogeneous and raises further questions regarding procedural legitimacy of the UNF-CCC and its role in mobilizing and empowering the next generation.

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Section: Nsa Participation In Global Climate Change Governance/unfcccmentioning

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Youth participation and agency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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2018

Int Environ Agreements

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“…The increasing numbers and types of non-state organisations attending these conferences (e.g. Muñoz Cabré, 2011), an increasing heterogeneity of the topics they raise (Hjerpe and Buhr, 2014;Nasiritousi et al, 2014b), and a will or necessity to link their topics to climate change (e.g. Jinnah, 2011), are all factors that are likely to foster a culture of identifying oneself as a stakeholder or, at least, a culture that awards organisations that do well in presenting themselves as an important stakeholder.…”

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Normative arguments for non-state actor participation in international policymaking processes: Functionalism, neocorporatism or democratic pluralism?

Nasiritousi

Hjerpe

Bäckstrand

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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The participation of non-state actors (NSA) in multilateral institutions is often portrayed as one way of decreasing the perceived legitimacy deficit in global governance. The literature on NSAs has identified several ways in which these actors can enhance the legitimacy of inter-governmental organisations and global governance arrangements. Three partially-competing normative arguments, or rationales, for the inclusion of nonstate actors in international policy-making -functionalism, neocorporatism and democratic pluralism -have been identified (Willetts, 2006). Whereas functionalism highlights the contribution of NSAs to output legitimacy in terms of expertise, neocorporatism emphasises the inclusion of affected interests, and democratic pluralism claims that NSAs increase input legitimacy through procedural values. These three normative arguments thus offer different understandings of the motives for inclusion and representation of NSAs in international negotiations and diplomacy. Through a single case study of UN climate diplomacy, we analyse the extent to which the three rationales for NSA inclusion are found in views held by state and non-state actors participating in the annual UN climate change conferences. Our results show that different actor groups place varying degrees of emphasis on the different rationales for NSA inclusion, even though the neocorporatist rationale remains most favoured overall. We discuss the implications of our findings for the democratic legitimacy of increasing participation of NSAs in intergovernmental affairs and recent trends in the participation of NSAs in the international climate change policy-making process.

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“…Here youth face a seemingly insurmountable hurdle, a double challenge of being the living generation to be most affected by climate change, while also possessing little political capital to bring about the changes needed to mitigate and adapt to it. Youth are at the forefront of climate activism today, from climate strikes to the development of bold new policy agendas such as the Green New Deal, Fridays for the Future, and the Sunrise Movement (Bandura and Cherry, 2019;Fisher, 2019;Grosse, 2019;Hathaway, 2019), but their perspectives have been overlooked in prior analyses of climate negotiations (Böhmelt, 2013;Cabré, 2011;Dombrowski, 2010;Hjerpe and Buhr, 2014;Uhre, 2014).…”

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Applying a leverage points framework to the United Nations climate negotiations: The (dis)empowerment of youth participants

Yona

Dixon

Howarth

et al. 2020

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Young people are both among the generations to be most affected by climate change and critical advocates for climate action. In the face of growing urgency surrounding the climate crisis, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has become an important institutional framework for political progress. We developed a community-based participatory action research project centered on youth involved in the COP climate negotiations. A "leverage points" approach guided our research; this paper is the first time the framework has been applied in an international negotiations context. Our findings point to the structural power, networks, and paradigms that youth might engage with for international climate justice work. We identify actionable leverage points through which youth organizers might increase their social power in the COP process to bring about climate action. Many of these leverage points are rooted in dynamics of power, which we expand upon and connect to broader literature. Moving forward, these findings can benefit and inform the strategies of youth as they participate in the COP process.

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Frames of Climate Change in Side Events from Kyoto to Durban

Cited by 22 publications

References 24 publications

Youth participation and agency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Youth participation and agency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Normative arguments for non-state actor participation in international policymaking processes: Functionalism, neocorporatism or democratic pluralism?

Applying a leverage points framework to the United Nations climate negotiations: The (dis)empowerment of youth participants

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