Dear all, Thank you to all those who responded to my question about the composition of national delegations. I have pasted the most relevant answers below:
Ruben Zondervan wrote: "This could be relevant: http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/publication/schroeder-heike-equity-and-state-representations see also http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/2012-11-18-equity-and-state-representations-climate-negotiations"; Christian Downie wrote: " I have done some work in this area, including the role of finance ministries (or what I referred to as economic agencies) in determining the national positions of the US and the EU in UNFCCC negotiations. This work has recently been published by Edward Elgar and it includes a method section that describes how I mapped the important players. See here: http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783472109.xml You might also be interested in these articles, which address the same issues. Downie, C. 2013 "Three Ways to Understand State Actors in International Negotiations: Climate change in the Clinton years (1993-2000)", Global Environmental Politics, 13(4) pp. 22-40. Downie, C. 2013 "Shaping International Negotiations from within the EU: Sub-State Actors and Climate Change", Journal of European Integration, 35 (6) pp. 705-721." The article by Schroeder et al. maps which ministries the members of the government delegations to respectively COP1, 7 and 15 came from in the cases of six countries (China Mexico, the US, the UK, Gabon & Bhutan), while Downie focuses on the role that different ministries have played in defining the national/EU negotiation positions. All of them are very interesting, and there appears to be plenty of space for more research on the topic. Kind regards, Jakob Skovgaard ________________________________________ Fra: Jakob Skovgaard Sendt: 5. marts 2014 17:37 Til: Gep-Ed Emne: National delegations at UNFCCC COPs Dear all, I have a query regarding the national delegations to the UNFCCC process (both Conferences of the Parties and meetings), namely which ministries/departments/agencies the members of the national delegations come from. I would like to know if there are any existing analyses or databases addressing this question. I know that the UNFCCC has the lists for of the participants at each COP and each meeting, but I would like to know if anybody has used this date to map the ministries/agencies constituting the national delegations and/or created any kind of searchable database. My reason for posing this question is that I am doing research on the role of finance ministries in global climate governance, including their participation in the COPs. Furthermore, it is often claimed that the national delegations increasingly consist of broader range of ministries/agencies, such as ministries of finance, energy, development, etc., a claim which in itself is worth investigating. Before I embark on studying the national delegations myself, I would like to know what kind of knowledge that is out there already. Kind regards, Jakob Skovgaard, PhD Department of Political Science Lund University P.O. Box 52 SE-221 00 Lund Sweden Tel.: +46 46 222 0165 -- 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 gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
