ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the activities of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) explain why and how human rights have entered climate agreements. It reviews the literature on civil society participation and the activities of TANs at the international climate conferences. By interacting very closely with state representatives, international non-state partners within TANs transmit local claims to the states' negotiation table. TANs create new linkages; multiply access channels to the international system, make resources available to new actors and help to transform practices of national sovereignty. TANs use local experiences and case studies at the international climate negotiations to demonstrate that both climate change and climate policies have adverse implications for the human rights of populations. The chapter explains how close state-society interaction can foster the institutionalization of human rights in the international climate regime. Those civil society actors and TAN collaborating intensively with state actors are much more likely to achieve moderate gains for inclusion of human rights in climate politics.
