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7 - Beyond Negotiations

Studying Side Events, Exhibition Booths, and Other Neglected Conference Spaces

from Part II - Navigating Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2023

By
Jennifer Bansard
Edited by
Hannah Hughes  and
Alice B. M. Vadrot
Hannah Hughes
Affiliation:
Aberystwyth University
Alice B. M. Vadrot
Affiliation:
Universität Wien, Austria
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Summary

This chapter is a practical guide for navigating international environmental conferences, focusing on what there is to these events beyond the negotiations. It sensitizes readers to the existence and specificities of conference spaces and practices such as side events, the corridors, and civil society protests, first touching upon spaces within conference venues before zooming out to consider how conferences manifest outside and beyond their dedicated venue. Building on this scene-setting, the chapter outlines the distinction between using the various conference spaces as sites for data collection and treating them as research objects in their own right. It especially underscores the need for comparative research across processes, notably by providing novel insights on the side-event phenomenon. The chapter makes explicit much of the implicit knowledge that enables seasoned participants to smoothly navigate these events and aims to stimulate scholarship that advances our understanding of the multifaceted nature of these conferences and their constitutive parts.

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environmental conferencesside eventspavilionsexhibition boothsprotestspress conferencescorridorsUNFCCCCOP
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Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making , pp. 121 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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1.Hjerpe, M. and Linnér, B-O. (2010). Functions of COP side-events in climate-change governance. Climate Policy, 10(2), 167–180.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
This article examines the functions of UNFCCC side events for participants, organizers, and the negotiation process more broadly. It constitutes an excellent primer on the side-event phenomenon.Google Scholar
2.Schroeder, H. and Lovell, H. (2012). The role of non-nation-state actors and side events in the international climate negotiations. Climate Policy, 12(1), 23–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
This article explores linkages between side events and the negotiations. It underscores the special relevance of side events for nonstate actors.Google Scholar
3.Thew, H. (2018). Youth participation and agency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 18(3), 369–389.Google Scholar
This article provides critical food for thought on a range of UNFCCC conference spaces, including side events and civil society actions.Google Scholar

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