Nele Marien is an environmental activist, analyst and investigator.
Specific issues she manages:
- Climate change:
- Climate negotiations (UNFCCC)
- Climate science
- Climate debt
- Carbon Markets
- Warfare and Climate Change
- Human Rights and Climate Change
- Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
- Mother Earth’s Rights
- Environmental Justice
- International Court for Climate Justice
- Geoengineering
- Critical views on Green Economy
- Critical views on decoupling
- Understanding of interlinkages between several environmental negotiations:
- UNFCCC, CBD, Desertification
- Rio+20 Process
- IPBES platform
- Environmental issues in WTO negotiations
She has general knowledge about the UNFCCC process
- Knowledge of the Convention
- Knowledge of the Kyoto Protocol
- Bali Action Plan and Bali Road Map
- Knowledge of negotiation structure and procedures
- Knowledge of history of UNFCCC
- Inside in interests and negotiation strategies of major players
- Overview over negotiation process
- Understanding of interlinkages between different negotiation issues
- Understanding of the climate science and its relation to UNFCCC negotiations
She negotiated specific chapters in the UNFCCC Process:
- Shared Vision
- Experience in negotiating the issue
- Understanding of Carbon Budget implications of different options in the Shared Vision chapter
- Understanding of peaking, its options and its problems
- Knowledge and understanding of historical responsability issues
- Knowledge of trade issues
- Set of global climate goals
- Mitigation
- Experience in negotiating KP
- Experience in negotating 1bi (mitigation for deveoped countries) and 1bii (mitigation for developing countries)
- Understanding of issues at stake for developed countries in these chapters
- Understanding of key issues unattended in these chapters
- Understanding of main problems in the actual approach
- Carbon markets
- Experience in negotiating “Market Mechanisms” under KP
- Experience in negotiating 1bv under LCA
- Understanding of linkages with market mechanisms under other conventions
- Carbon markets in forrests (REDD), agriculture and bunkers
- Studied problems on existing market mechanisms
- Studied proposals of new marked mechanisms under 1bv, proposed by different countries
- Studied on negative impacts of carbon markets for developing countries
- Studied on incoherences between carbon markets – in its different versions – and real climate action
She was part of the organization of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth:
- Part of the organizing committee of the WPCCC
- Responsible for Working group on climate debt
- In debt study of climate debt concepts
- Assistence in basic documents for Working groups on adaptation and on Agriculture and Food Sovereignity
Other Useful Experience she can offer:
- Transmitting the topics of the climate change negotiations to civil society
- Negotiating experiences: construction of texts, procedural negotiations, drafting groups, negotiating of final text
- Working with G77
- Writing of submissions
- Lobbying
- Dictating classes on climate change issues
- Multiple contacts with negotiators
