Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties

• Published in: Environmental science & policy Vol. 112; pp. 227 - 235
• Main Authors: Wamsler, Christine, Schäpke, Niko, Fraude, Carolin, Stasiak, Dorota, Bruhn, Thomas, Lawrence, Mark, Schroeder, Heike, Mundaca, Luis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2020; The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd
• Subjects: Beliefs; climate; climate change; Climate change adaptation; Climate change mitigation; Conference of the parties; decision making; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; environmental science; Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap; Inner capacities; Inner qualities; Inner transformation; issues and policy; Miljövetenskap; Mindsets; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Paradigm shift; Paris agreement; Personal sphere of transformation; Political Science; Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies); Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies); Relationality; Samhällsvetenskap; Social Sciences; Statsvetenskap; Statsvetenskap (exklusive freds- och konfliktforskning); Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier); Subjectivity; Sustainable development; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Values; Worldviews; Worldviews; Conference of the parties; Inner transformation; Beliefs; Values; Relationality; Climate change mitigation; Sustainable development; Inner capacities; Paris agreement; Mindsets; Paradigm shift; Subjectivity; Inner qualities; Personal sphere of transformation; Climate change adaptation

•A mindset shift is already emerging across sectors and contexts.•It relates to new, relational modes of knowing, being and acting.•A paradigm shift has not yet happened at the collective level.•Safe spaces can function as a visible manifestation and catalyst.•A competency framework of transformativ...