Government participation in virtual negotiations: evidence from IPCC approval sessions

IF 4.8 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Climatic Change Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI:10.1007/s10584-024-03790-7
Patrick Bayer, Lorenzo Crippa, Hannah Hughes, Erlend Hermansen
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The Covid-19 pandemic challenged global governance in unprecedented ways by requiring intergovernmental meetings to be held online. For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this meant that the intergovernmental approval of the key findings of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) had to be conducted virtually. In this paper, we assess how the move away from face-to-face meetings affected country participation in IPCC approval sessions. Our findings demonstrate that virtual meetings increased the size of member governments’ delegations, but this did not necessarily translate into a greater number of interventions during the approval of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) as time zone differences reduced engagement levels significantly—particularly for countries from the Pacific, East Asian, and Latin American regions whose delegations often found themselves in IPCC meetings late at night and early in the morning. These results offer initial, empirically robust evidence about what online meetings can and cannot achieve for promoting more inclusive global governance at a time when the IPCC and other organizations reflect on the future use of virtual and hybrid meeting formats.

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政府参与虚拟谈判:政府间气候变化专门委员会审批会议的证据
Covid-19 大流行以前所未有的方式对全球治理提出了挑战,要求在线举行政府间会议。对于政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)来说,这意味着第六次评估报告(AR6)主要结论的政府间审批必须以虚拟方式进行。在本文中,我们评估了不再举行面对面会议对各国参与政府间气候变化专门委员会审批会议的影响。我们的研究结果表明,虚拟会议增加了成员国政府代表团的规模,但这并不一定意味着在审批《决策者摘要》(SPM)期间有更多的国家发言,因为时区差异大大降低了参与程度--尤其是太平洋、东亚和拉丁美洲地区的国家,它们的代表团经常在深夜和清晨参加 IPCC 会议。在政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)和其他组织思考未来如何使用虚拟会议和混合会议形式之际,这些结果提供了初步的有力证据,说明在线会议在促进更具包容性的全球治理方面能够实现什么,不能实现什么。
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Climatic Change
Climatic Change 环境科学-环境科学
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10.20
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180
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7.5 months
期刊介绍: Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate-related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.
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