BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

NON-STATE ACTORS IN GLOBAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS: POLICY INFLUENCING STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES

Author: Abu Salah Md. Yousuf

DOI Link: DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2015v36n4a3

ABSTRACT

Non-State Actors (NSAs) are regarded as important stakeholders in global climate negotiations to uphold the views of climate change victims all over the world. Defining NSAs and why do state actors allow them to participate in the negotiation process are drawing academic interest. During the Conference of Parties (COP), under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), NSAs try to influence policies by sharing knowledge and enforcing pressure on state actors in order to adopt effective policies. In contemporary climate change negotiations, NSAs’ policy influence can be understood in two ways: first, as “outsider”, when they put pressure on state actors without participating in the negotiation; an second, as “insider”, when they directly participate in the negotiation process. In this respect, the main objectives of this paper are to evaluate policy influencing strategies of NSAs in the negotiations and what are the challenges they face to influence the policies.