International Climate Negotiation Factors Design, Process, Tactics
Providing a detailed examination of climate negotiations records since the 1990s, this book shows that, in addition to agreeing on climate policy frameworks, the negotiations process is of crucial importance to success. Shedding light on the dynamics of i
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nternational Climate Negotiation Factors Design, Process, Tactics
International Climate Negotiation Factors
Wytze van der Gaast
International Climate Negotiation Factors Design, Process, Tactics
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Wytze van der Gaast JIN Climate and Sustainability Groningen The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-46797-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46798-6
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Acknowledgements
On 26 January 2015, I defended my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Groningen. It concluded a research into twenty years of climate negotiations. During the project, I tried to understand why I did not like attending negotiation sessions as I often felt that watching a glacier move was more exciting. At the same time, I have been surprised several times by the sudden accelerations in negotiation processes, leading to an agreement. What are drivers for negotiation success, how important is it to organise all these meetings, and what is the influence of environmental groups and knowledge institutes in the corridors? After working on the Ph.D. thesis project, I continued the analysis by closely following the negotiations leading towards last year’s Paris Agreement. In combination with the negotiations dossiers on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the early 1990s and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 with continued negotiations on its implementation, I was able to present an analysis of 25 years of climate negotiations. I would like to thank Catrinus Jepma for supervising the Ph.D. project and stimulating me to write this book, my colleague Erwin Hofman for reviewing the manuscript so carefully, and
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