Climate Change Current Activities - Public Participation in Climate Negotiations and Outcomes

Given the virtual exclusion of most of civil society from the final days of the Copenhagen climate meetings in December 2009, efforts are underway on multiple fronts to evaluate and improve civil society participation. 

We have been involved in helping coordinate a core group of organizations focused on these issues and contributed to interventions and submissions to the deliberations within the UNFCCC on these issues.

We have provided support to the civil society focal points in their ongoing dialogues with the UNFCCC secretariat on these matters. 

These broader efforts dovetail with the REDD work to support and promote mechanisms for participation by indigenous peoples in both the negotiations and the operationalization of REDD mechanisms on the ground.