Table of Contents
Preface Main Page
Foreword

Part 1 The Negotiating Context
1. The Climate Change Problem
 2. The Climate Convention
and the Kyoto Protocol
3. The Bodies in the Regime
4. The Rules of Procedure
5. State and Non-State Actors
6. Coalitions in the Climate
Change Regime
7. The G-77 and China

Part 2 Negotiating Skills
8. The Ideal Negotiator
 9. The Handicapped Negotiator
10. Coping Strategies
11. Tips and Tricks for the
Lonely Diplomat
 12. Index to the FCCC
 13. References




Part I: The Negotiating Context
6. Coalitions in the Climate Change Regime
The importance of coalitions / The two major negotiating blocs (power-based coalitions) / The divisions within the blocs (issue-based and political) / The divisions across the groups in Non-Annex I / The divisions across the blocs / Tips and tricks

6.6 Tips and tricks

  • Identify the group to which you belong‹G-77, non-G-77 and non-Annex I, or Annex I.

  • If your country is a G-77 member, attend the G-77 meetings which normally begin at 9:00 in the morning during the sessions.

  • Identify the regional group to which you belong and attend their meetings which normally begin at 8:00 in the morning.

  • Identify the sub-group to which you belong; and find dinner or corridor opportunities to see what they are pushing forward.

  • Identify if there are issues on which you can agree with other sub-groups; but do not do this behind the back of your own group. This can create an unpleasant diplomatic breach.

  • Read miscellaneous documents that cover country positions on specific issues.

  • Keep copies of group positions and submissions from past and ongoing negotiations in their different drafts (institutional memory).

  • Make a critical analysis of each text, with an eye for underlying policies or "traps."

    For more information on country and region positions visit:

    For Canada: http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/

    For EU: http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/query_fr.htm and http://europa.eu.int/

    For G-77 (climate change position not described): http://www.G-77.org/

    For AOSIS (climate change position not described): http://www.sidsnet.org/

    For OECD (general information about climate change): http://www.oecd

    org/env/cc/index.htm; "OECD Perspectives on Climate Change Policies," OECD (1999) http://www.oecd.org/env/docs/cc/cop5-statement.pdf

    For OPEC (climate change position not described): http://www.opec.org/

    For the U.S.: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/index.html

    Footnotes

    7 Turkey has requested that its status as Annex I and II be reconsidered in view of its inability to comply with the possible commitments for these countries (FCCC/CP/1999/6/Add.1, para 3).

    8 Iceland, Korea (Rep.) and Mexico may attend meetings.

    9 Switzerland is a member of Annex I.

    10 This total excludes Western Sahara since it is not an independent state.

    11 Palestine is not an independent state.