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The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance, by Jen Iris Allan University of Toronto Press, 2020, 226 pp, $85 hb, $32.95 pb ISBN 9781487508388 hb, 9781487525842 pb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Harro van Asselt*
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Finland Law School, Joensuu, Finland

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References

1 New York, NY (US), 9 May 1992, in force 21 Mar. 1994, available at: https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf.

2 See, e.g., Keohane, R.O. & Victor, D.G., ‘The Regime Complex for Climate Change’ (2011) 9(1) Perspectives on Politics, pp. 723CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Abbott, K.W., ‘Strengthening the Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change’ (2013) 3(1) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 5788CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See, e.g., van Asselt, H., ‘The Role of Non-State Actors in Reviewing Ambition, Implementation and Compliance under the Paris Agreement’ (2016) 6(1–2) Climate Law, pp. 91108CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Chan, S. et al. , ‘Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action’ (2015) 6(4) Global Policy, pp. 466–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See, e.g., UNFCCC Secretariat, ‘Just Transition of the Workforce, and the Creation of Decent Work and Quality Jobs’ (n.d.), available at: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Just%20transition.pdf.

6 See, most recently, Decision 3/CP.25, ‘Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and Its Gender Action Plan’ (16 Mar. 2020), UN Doc. FCCC/CP/2019/13/Add.1.

7 Paris Agreement, Paris (France), 12 Dec. 2015, in force 4 Nov. 2016, Preamble, available at: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php.

8 Allan is interested in the ‘collective behaviour’ of groups of NGOs (p. 18) rather than individual organizations, hence her focus on ‘networks’. Nevertheless, she also discusses the role of specific NGOs in the context of her case studies.

9 Available at: https://enb.iisd.org/enb.

10 For an exception see Vihma, A., ‘Climate of Consensus: Managing Decision Making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations’ (2014) 24(1) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, pp. 5868CrossRefGoogle Scholar.