Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action - Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties

Summary

A study of the culture inside UN climate talks. Christine Wamsler and colleagues ran a dialogue space at COP25, surveying around 200 self-selected attendees. Nearly all wanted culture and mindsets to change, towards “more relational modes of knowing, being and acting”. A former negotiator calls it “quite a broken culture” of people who “care very deeply”.

Rationale

A negotiator’s puzzle, caring people in a structure where “it doesn’t feel possible” to show it, is our argument about contexts. We’d weigh its safe spaces above its skills framework.