New paper on NGOs and the Paris Agreement

[Jessica Green]

Dear colleagues,

Some of you may be interested in a paper just out in Climatic Change, entitled "The Climate Establishment and the Paris Partnerships" which looks at which INGOs comprise the "climate establishment" and how frequently they partner with Fortune 100 companies.   Twitter thread here for those who want the key takeaways!

Best,

Jessica Green

The Climate Establishment and the Paris partnerships - Climatic Change The Paris Agreement created an institutionalized role for non-state actors through voluntary cooperation. Many international NGOs (INGOs) are particularly active in these “Paris partnerships,” often working with multinational corporations to reduce emissions and promote decarbonization. Though there is ample work on both the effectiveness of the Paris partnerships and on the role of INGOs in the global climate regime, much of this work focuses “outward” – on how INGOs contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation, or influence norms, discourse and policy. Yet, there is considerably less work that focuses “inward” – examining who INGOs work with in order to achieve their policy goals. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of key INGOs in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, as a first step in a larger research agenda to understand the incentives and opportunities that drive INGO behavior. Specifically, it uses network analysis to identify the “cli link.springer.com