Businesses, Green Groups and The Media: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Climate Change Debate
作者:Chad Carpenter
DOI:10.1111/1468-2346.00194
日期:2001.4
of media and governmental commentary on the recent Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP-6) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has focused on rifts between the EU and the ‘Umbrella Group’ of countries, including the United States, Canada and Japan, and has led many observers to speculate that intergovernmental negotiations on climate change may have irretrievably broken down. Limiting the
对最近召开的联合国气候变化框架公约第六次缔约方会议 (COP-6) 的媒体和政府评论的大部分都集中在欧盟与包括美国在内的“伞形集团”国家之间的裂痕上,加拿大和日本,并导致许多观察家猜测政府间气候变化谈判可能已经无可挽回地破裂。然而,将重点仅限于特定问题的政治困难,只强调了故事的一部分,并没有考虑到国际谈判所处的复杂背景。这种方法并没有充分肯定在谈判大厅外聚集的日益增长的势头。本文考察了非政府团体——包括工商界、环保团体和媒体——对全球气候变化问题的态度和意识最近发生的快速变化,以及这些变化对谈判进程和整体的影响。气候变化辩论。这些团体共同提供了令人鼓舞的公众舆论转变迹象,并充分证明海牙会谈的失败并不意味着道路的终结。