scholarly journals Why the frustration?

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Sebastian Levi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
The United Nations

Civil society organizations play an increasingly important role in global politics. However, during the last years, civil society has become frustrated from the negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This frustration reached a new quality when civil society organizations walked out in the middle of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) in 2013. Drawing from empirical data from the COP19 and the negotiations on Loss and Damage, this thesis seeks to explain the low level of influence which has lead to this frustration. It can be shown that neither civil society capabilities, nor changing state attitudes towards civil society can explain their contemporary low influence. Instead, this paper argues that the increasing financial and legal relevance of the negotiations substantially constrain civil society from exercising influence.

Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with climate change impacts.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-0
Author(s):  
Monika Adamczak-Retecka
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
The United Nations

The topic of loss and damage in the context of climate change has gained increasing importance in the UNFCCC climate change talks in recent years. The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage was established after two years of deliberations by the Conference of the Parties (COP) 19 in 2013. It is supposed to be the main vehicle under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to promote the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in a comprehensive integrated and coherent manner.

Institutional Control and Climate Change Activism at COP 21 in Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon K. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Civil Society Participation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
The City

The 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris faced two particular challenges: the growth of civil society participation in the negotiations, and significant security concerns following the terrorist attacks on the city two weeks prior to the start of the negotiations. This report reflects on the impacts of these two challenges through an overview of civil society participation at the COP, highlighting the implications for the accountability of the negotiations.

Civil Society in UN Peacebuilding Discourse

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Conceptual Domain ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Chapter 5 outlines the ways in which civil society is largely associated with “women” and the “local,” as a spatial and conceptual domain, and how this has implications for how we understand political legitimacy and authority. The author argues that close analysis reveals a shift in the way in which the United Nations as a political entity conceives of civil society over time, from early engagement with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to the more contemporary articulation of civil society as consultant or even implementing partner. Contemporary UN peacebuilding discourse, however, constitutes civil society as a legitimating actor for UN peacebuilding practices, as civil society organizations are the bearers/owners of certain forms of (local) knowledge.

Paris Agreement

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 740-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara A. Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Global Response ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The Paris Agreement sets forth a new international legal regime aimed at strengthening the global response to climate change. It was adopted in December 2015 at the annual gathering of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement sits within and implements the Convention.

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