ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 analyses a specific set of issues that became salient immediately following the landmark 2009 Copenhagen climate conference. It provides a historical example of climate negotiations to investigate the sorts of dynamics that have become relevant for stakeholders. Based on specific dynamics that unfolded at UNFCCC meetings in Bonn in 2010, I bring readers in to the negotiations by highlighting some of the positions taken by governments and by members of CSOs. I also discuss forms of activism that are deployed by participants in an attempt to influence policy. Ultimately, the dynamics that took place at the meeting from which I draw my examples speak to larger conflicts between policy and science and between civil society and governments. I investigate various forms of activism and note the activist/policy disjuncture that exists within the context of UN negotiations.
