Beyond delegation size: developing country negotiating capacity and NGO ‘support’ in international climate negotiations

Seen the #COP26 provisional delegation list? Here’s a companion piece https://t.co/TvjPSrcbAt https://t.co/BY5XmzBj3g

3. Delegation size👨‍👩‍👦‍👦(or why delegation size alone is misleading). Lots of attn to sheer numbers attending #COP26, COPs in general. But there are more subtle ways of improving developing country negotiating capacity than # of ppl - via specialised NG

Do issue numbers matter in an era of online first? Anyway, my article in Int'l Environmental Agreements now in an issue: "Beyond delegation size: developing country negotiating capacity and NGO ‘support’ in international climate negotiations" https://t.c

Very tangential to the latest will-it-wont-it on COP26 and virtual negotiations, but here is my article from last year on developing countries and issues of negotiating capacity in the UNFCCC process: https://t.co/k9JZ4mwBsk (👈free read-only) https://t.co