The International Negotiations Survey team has conducted questionnaire studies since 2007. The database contains around 900 responses for each conference covered from delegates to the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), participants in side events, as well as side-event organizers. The survey, which is undertaken with the agreement of the UNFCCC Secretariat, has been on-going since the climate change negotiations in Bali 2007.
The survey measures individual preferences on a variety of topics at the negotiations, such as the role of non-state actors, leadership, the effectiveness of various solutions to tackle climate change, principles for effort sharing of commitments, and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions by developing countries. It includes a number of questions held constant over time as well as questions that vary from year to year. The dataset thereby offers unique empirical material for understanding attitudes and opinions held by the diverse participants at the international climate change negotiations.
