Learning from Practice to Teach for Practice: Reflections from a Novel Training Series for International Climate Negotiators Presentation at PON’s 40^th Anniversary Symposium, December 9, 2023¹

Early career climate negotiators face tough challenges—with little formal authority they must exert influence in a highly formalized negotiation process that produces bad bargaining dynamics. The authors describe the process of devising a training series for such climate negotiators from underrepresented and underresourced countries. They highlight challenges they faced, and distill lessons learned. Specifically, the article explores how negotiation theory can be made useful for people who are granted little authority to negotiate creatively, how to leverage insights from senior practitioners effectively, and how to train and engage an audience online that is scattered around the world, underpaid, overworked, and dials in with bad WiFi.