FYI. Dear colleague:
A timely new Policy Brief titled Conducting Climate Change Negotiations: Harnessing the Power of Process, by Kai Monheim, has been published by the project Fixing Climate Governance, based at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Its key points are: The collective success of dozens of negotiation groups facilitated by chairs below the top level at a climate summit contributes significantly to the success of high-level negotiations. For this reason, the quality of negotiation management at these lower levels is of vital importance, beyond the issues being negotiated. The latest research, along with the experiences of numerous negotiators of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indicate that certain approaches, habits and actions are more conducive than others to reaching agreements and avoiding deadlock. Successful chairs will use tactics that include the following: brokering compromise while remaining as transparent and inclusive as possible; enhancing influence by acting impartially and recognizing cultural differences; managing the agenda to create momentum while clustering, prioritizing and linking issues; focusing debate using the chair's information advantage; steering individual negotiation sessions in a time-efficient way; and building trust by creating sheltered negotiation spaces that allow for frank and constructive dialogue. For the Brief click here<http://www.cigionline.org/publications/conducting-global-climate-change-negotiations>. For more information about the Fixing Climate Governance project including other publications, click here<http://www.cigionline.org/activity/fixing-climate-governance>. If you are on Twitter, please feel free to share this paper using the following message: [New Report] Six axioms for chairs of #UNFCCC negotiating groups: http://ow.ly/N0v2q #fixclimate @cigionline #COP21 Apologies for any duplication, and thank you. Sincerely, John Odell CIGI Senior Fellow David Runnalls CIGI Distinguished Fellow ________________________________ If you are not [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and would like to join the climate-l Mailing List, please click here to SUBSCRIBE<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> ________________________________ ________________________________ Account/Subscription Management - climate-l Mailing List ________________________________ You are currently subscribed to climate-l as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> How often would you like to receive messages from climate-l? [ Once-A-Day: As Attachments<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> or Displayed In Email Body<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> | Throughout the Day<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> | Pause Messages<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> ] Manage Your Lyris Account? [ Login<https://lists.iisd.ca/read/login/[email protected]&go=/read/my_forums> | Reset Password<https://lists.iisd.ca/rp?e=pam%40iisd%2eorg&t=1431719121&x=22dbdc03> | Unsubscribe<https://lists.iisd.ca/u?id=17060.9f8f593af6b09a7d68c36ed5a2a56b3e&n=T&l=climate-l&o=1475405> | Your Settings<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> | More Commands<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> ] Haven't received any messages from climate-l? [ Lately<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> | Never<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request.> ] ________________________________ Visit climate-l<https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=climate-l> | About climate-l<http://www.iisd.ca/email/climate-l/> | More IISD RS Mailing Lists<http://www.iisd.ca/email/> | Help & Support<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Help%20%26%20Support> ________________________________ [http://www.iisd.ca/_img/_logos/iisd/logo_iisdrs_2012__075px_054px.png] ________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
