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Africa in the global climate change negotiations

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  • Charles Roger
  • Satishkumar Belliethathan

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The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) has become a much more significant bargaining coalition in the global climate change negotiations. It has been participating more proactively and on a much more significant scale, and, as a result, it has had a greater impact on bargaining outcomes, notably in Nairobi, Copenhagen and Durban. Yet, at present, the group remains poorly understood by both scholars and policymakers. Compared to other groups in the climate negotiations, such as the Group of 77 and Alliance of Small Island States, it has received relatively little attention. This paper fills this gap by tracking the evolution of the AGN over the course of the climate change negotiations. In the early years after the Earth Summit, it shows that the AGN faced tremendous difficulties pursing regional objectives effectively, largely due to a number of “internal” barriers to participation, which compounded the structural barriers that the continent faced by making it difficult to use “low-power” negotiating strategies such as coalition building, agenda-setting and persuasion. However, in recent years, the group has become much more proactive as a result of greater access to material, ideational and institutional resources. These have relieved, somewhat, the internal barriers that the group faced, making it possible for the AGN to negotiate much more confidently and effectively than before. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

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  • Charles Roger & Satishkumar Belliethathan, 2016. "Africa in the global climate change negotiations," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 91-108, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:ieaple:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:91-108
    DOI: 10.1007/s10784-014-9244-7
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