Getting a Seat at the Table: Fair Participation in the UNFCCC

Tomlinson, Luke

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“…Those who gain accreditation have to ‘make present’ that which is absent: the views, ideas, and preferences of those they are supposed to represent. As non‐state actors have gained increasing influence in climate negotiations (not to mention the impact of non‐state actors as private governors or in networks), the legitimacy of representational claims need to be scrutinized . This will be especially important in the post‐Paris hybrid context as NGOs, businesses, and local governments will be asked to report on the impact of NDCs.…”

Section: Non‐state Actors In the Post‐paris Era: Justice Legitimacymentioning

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“…As non-state actors have gained increasing influence in climate negotiations (not to mention the impact of non-state actors as private governors or in networks), the legitimacy of representational claims need to be scrutinized. 106 This will be especially important in the post-Paris hybrid context as NGOs, businesses, and local governments will be asked to report on the impact of NDCs. This reporting will necessarily have to take consideration of how actors on the ground are experiencing mitigation and adaptation efforts (on the importance of representation in collective climate governance efforts see Ref 107).…”

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Non‐state actors in hybrid global climate governance: justice, legitimacy, and effectiveness in a post‐Paris era

Kuyper

Linnér

Schroeder

2017

WIREs Climate Change

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In this article, we outline the multifaceted roles played by non-state actors within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and place this within the wider landscape of global climate governance. In doing so, we look at both the formation and aftermath of the 2015 Paris Agreement. We argue that the Paris Agreement cements an architecture of hybrid multilateralism that enables and constrains non-state actor participation in global climate governance. We flesh out the constitutive features of hybrid multilateralism, enumerate the multiple positions non-state actors may employ under these conditions, and contend that non-state actors will play an increasingly important role in the post-Paris era. To substantiate these claims, we assess these shifts and ask how non-state actors may affect the legitimacy, justice, and effectiveness of the Paris Agreement. © 2017 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Clim Change 2018, 9:e497. doi: 10.1002/wcc.497 INTRODUCTIONT he Paris Agreement now stands at the center of efforts by the international community to address the threats associated with climatic change. Within this Agreement-built upon the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-non-state actors will play an increasingly important role. The presence and prominence of non-state actors within the Paris Agreement mirrors a broader shift across the international climate governance landscape in which nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), business groups, think tanks, trade unions, private governance arrangements, transnational networks, and substate authorities assume active roles in limiting the negative effects of global warming. 1,2 This conceptualization of non-state actors includes civil society, business, research groups, and substate authorities. We prefer this expansive definition as it fits alongside the definition of nonparty stakeholders employed by the UNFCCC (see also Ref 3).In this article, we focus on how the Paris Agreement further deepens and complicates the connections between multilateralism and non-state action. It does so by creating an architecture that we call 'hybrid multilateralism' that splices together state and nonstate actors (on the usage of this term, see traits: state-led action defined and stipulated by the parties through their own nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as well as efforts by the UNFCCC to orchestrate transnational climate efforts. In both instances, non-state actors are formally and informally woven into the Paris Agreement performing a range of different and increasingly important functions. Non-state actors will act as watchdogs of the NDCs enhancing transparency, facilitating the stocktakes, and pressuring for the ratcheting up of NDCs every 5 years. Likewise non-state actors will act as contributors and governing partners through orchestration as they are encouraged by the Agreement 'to scale up their climate actions, and [register] those actions in the Non-State A...

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Section: Non‐state Actors In the Post‐paris Era: Justice Legitimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%