The Organization of Global Negotiations

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Texts

The basic work of the negotiations … to produce texts that translate concepts into words (secretariat interviewee).

Introduction

The story of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations is essentially the story of how over 430 pages of written proposals by parties gradually evolved into the 25 page final, authentic text of the Kyoto Protocol that now resides at UN Headquarters in New York. The story of the post-Kyoto negotiations is a similar one, albeit more complex and lengthy, with over 2000 pages of proposals eventually, and laboriously, resulting in the 23 decisions covering over 210 pages of the Marrakesh Accords. Indeed any negotiation – from the high-profile Kyoto Protocol and Marrakesh Accords to the most humble subsidiary body conclusions ...