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Environmental diplomacy: comparing the influence of business and environmental NGOs in negotiations on reform of the clean development mechanism

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Author

  • Emma Lund

Summary, in English

Although case studies exist of the influence of non-governmental organisations in international environmental negotiations, theoretical conclusions remain scattered, and the separation in previous literature between the study of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) and business and industry non-governmental organisations (BINGOs) reduces the generalisability of conclusions. The conclusions drawn in both fields are brought together and the resulting explanatory framework is applied to empirical material from the negotiations on reform of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, comparing the influence of environmental non-governmental organisations and business and industry non-governmental organisations. The explanatory factors identified in previous research generally play out in favour of BINGOs as compared to ENGOs. The structural influence of business and industry non-governmental organisations seems to have resulted in a larger influence on the outcome of the negotiations, which may be problematic from a democratic point of view as private economic interests and public interests frequently diverge.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

739-759

Publication/Series

Environmental Politics

Volume

22

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • international negotiations
  • NGOs
  • business
  • climate change
  • UNFCCC
  • Clean Development Mechanism

Status

Published

Research group

  • Miljöpolitik

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0964-4016