Abstract
International climate negotiations are complex as they address a global environmental problem which affects and requires collaboration between all countries. At the same time, countries may have different interests and abilities to contribute climate policy solutions. This chapters identifies three factors for achieving climate negotiation success: design of the climate agreement, the flexibility of the negotiation process and decisive tactics and facilitative negotiation support to enable changes in the course and/or direction of negotiations.
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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform.
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As the EU Climate Policy Roadmap for 2050 has shown, longer-term economic benefits of an economic restructuring towards a low-emission or even 85 % carbon-free society could even be positive due to lower energy cost, stimulating of renewable energy technology producing and service sectors, etc. (European Commission 2011).
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van der Gaast, W. (2017). Introduction. In: International Climate Negotiation Factors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46798-6_1
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