Dear colleague: A timely new Policy Brief titled Six Ways to Make Climate Negotiations More Effective by Pamela Chasek, Lynn Wagner and I. William Zartman, has been published by the project Fixing Climate Governance, based at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Its key points are: * Frustration and anger are growing at the lack of progress and consensus in climate negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). If governments are going to take on meaningful commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions within the context of a new, legally binding climate agreement, it may be necessary to change the working methodology of the UNFCCC negotiations themselves. * This policy brief proposes a different process in which all parties can be heard, while fair and effective agreements in the common interest also have a greater chance of adoption. * This proposed process includes six ways to make these negotiations more effective: using a single negotiating text; discontinuing "on-screen" negotiations; eliminating the norm that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" and dividing the climate change problem into pieces that may be more readily acceptable; giving negotiating roles to ministries besides foreign affairs; establishing a group of states to play the "regime-builder" role; and employing the leadership skills necessary to make this all happen. For the Brief click here<https://www.cigionline.org/publications/six-ways-make-climate-negotiations-more-effective>. 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] 6 Ways to Make Climate Negotiations More Effective: http://ow.ly/NMmaO #fixclimate @cigionline #COP21 Apologies for any duplication. Sincerely, John Odell CIGI Senior Fellow David Runnalls CIGI Distinguished Fellow Pamela Chasek, PhD Executive Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin IISD Reporting Services 300 East 56th Street #11D New York, NY 10022 USA +1-212-888-2737 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org<http://www.iisd.org> IISD Reporting Services - Earth Negotiations Bulletin www.iisd.ca<http://www.iisd.ca> Subscribe for free to our publications http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm -- 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.
