Africa in the global climate change negotiations

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• 作者：Charles Roger ; Satishkumar Belliethathan
• 关键词：African Group ; Climate change ; Negotiations ; UNFCCC ; Bargaining groups
• 刊名：International Environmental Agreements
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 页码：91-108
• 全文大小：1,110 KB
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• 作者单位：Charles Roger (1)
  Satishkumar Belliethathan (2)
  
  1. Department of Political Science, The University of British Columbia, C425-1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada
  2. Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre, College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Graduate Programme Building, 9th Floor, Room 903, Addis Ababa, 80773, Ethiopia
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environmental Management
  Environmental Law
  Environmental Economics
  Nature Conservation
  Political Science
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1553

文摘

The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) has become a much more significant bargaining coalition in the global climate change negotiations. It has been participating more proactively and on a much more significant scale, and, as a result, it has had a greater impact on bargaining outcomes, notably in Nairobi, Copenhagen and Durban. Yet, at present, the group remains poorly understood by both scholars and policymakers. Compared to other groups in the climate negotiations, such as the Group of 77 and Alliance of Small Island States, it has received relatively little attention. This paper fills this gap by tracking the evolution of the AGN over the course of the climate change negotiations. In the early years after the Earth Summit, it shows that the AGN faced tremendous difficulties pursing regional objectives effectively, largely due to a number of “internal” barriers to participation, which compounded the structural barriers that the continent faced by making it difficult to use “low-power” negotiating strategies such as coalition building, agenda-setting and persuasion. However, in recent years, the group has become much more proactive as a result of greater access to material, ideational and institutional resources. These have relieved, somewhat, the internal barriers that the group faced, making it possible for the AGN to negotiate much more confidently and effectively than before. Keywords African Group Climate change Negotiations UNFCCC Bargaining groups