COP-15 in Copenhagen: How the Merging of Movements Left Civil Society Out in the Cold

Dana R. Fisher
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Dana R. Fisher: Dana R. Fisher is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on environmental policy, civic participation and activism more broadly. She has written extensively on climate politics in the US and comparatively across nations, including in her first book: National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime (2004). Fisher is currently researching the climate policy network in the United States as part of the US National Science Foundation-funded Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) project. She is also the Lead Investigator of the "Understanding the Dynamic Connections Among Stewardship, Land Cover, and Ecosystem Services in New York City's Urban Forest," which is funded by the US National Science Foundation. This project aims to understand the relationship between urban civic stewardship and re-greening efforts in New York City. Fisher directs the Environmental Stewardship Project at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. For more information, go to www.columbia.edu/∼drf2004/ .

Global Environmental Politics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 11-17

Abstract: What happened to non-governmental organizations' participation at the COP-15 round of climate negotiations in Copenhagen? Although the climate regime has been seen as relatively open to civil society, everything changed in Copenhagen and civil society became increasingly disenfranchised. This article discusses the three main forces that led to civil society's disenfranchisement at this round of the climate negotiations: increased registration, poor planning by the Danish organizers and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, and the merging of movements. I conclude by discussing implications of the increase in civil society disenfranchisement to the climate regime and to the study of global environmental politics more broadly. (c) 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2010
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