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AOSIS in the UNFCCC negotiations: from unity to fragmentation?
- Source :
- Climate Policy
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis, 2012.
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Abstract
- Small island states were able to obtain some remarkable achievements in the climate change negotiations by building a cohesive coalition, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). The cohesion of the Alliance, however, has been affected by changes in the UNFCCC process. The multiplication of issues on the climate agenda and the increasing number of negotiation groups may help or hinder compromise and finding common ground. To track how AOSIS has fared in the climate change regime, this paper compares the activities and positions of AOSIS as a group, and of individual AOSIS members over three distinct periods in the climate change regime: its early phase from 1995 to 2000; an implementation phase from 2001 to 2005; and the more recent period from 2006 to 2011. Over time, group activity has declined in relative terms, with some issues such as forestry receiving particular attention from individual AOSIS members. Despite controversies in some areas, AOSIS has remained a tighly coordinated and cohesive alliance that continues to be a key player in global climate policy.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
media_common.quotation_subject
2306 Global and Planetary Change
Climate change negotiations
International trade
010501 environmental sciences
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
2308 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Political science
320 Political science
1902 Atmospheric Science
JZ
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Global and Planetary Change
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Fragmentation (computing)
2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
15. Life on land
Negotiation
Alliance
13. Climate action
10113 Institute of Political Science
Small Island Developing States
business
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14693062
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Climate Policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4bbaf77e5a5256fec1aaae45fdc51a17