@article {Gaventa:2010:1746-451X:29,
title = "Environmental Mega-Conferences and Climate Governance beyond the Nation-State: A Bali Case Study",
journal = "St Antony's International Review",
parent_itemid = "infobike://stair/stair",
publishercode ="stair",
year = "2010",
volume = "5",
number = "2",
publication date ="2010-02-01T00:00:00",
pages = "29-45",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1746-451X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stair/stair/2010/00000005/00000002/art00005",
author = "Gaventa, Jonathan",
abstract = "The international response to climate change includes not only formal agreements between nation-states, but also more disparate interventions by a range of actors beyond the governmental arena. These non-state actorsincluding business groups and city coalitionsoperate
both within and beyond their own local jurisdictions and increasingly form transnational networks and actively participate in international climate negotiations. This article presents a case study of the engagement of transnational networks of cities and businesses at the 13th United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties held in Bali in December 2007. The Bali meeting acted not only as a process to agree on a "roadmap" to a post-Kyoto climate agreement, but also as an "environmental mega-conference" that brought together state and non-state
actors and opened up a discursive space around the issue of climate change. Using tools of discourse analysis to examine webcasts of parallel events at the Bali conference, this article considers how non-state actors use this discursive space to position themselves vis-{\‘a}-vis the international
regime, make claims for resources and power, and frame the issue of climate change through narratives that facilitate policy intervention at a particular scale. The analysis suggests that the narratives advanced by business and city networks at the conference reinterpret climate change in
ways that give them legitimacy and traction in seeking to resolve it, but stop short of challenging dominant discourses of ecological modernization that underpin the current regime of international climate governance.",
}