Relational Data between Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

The “Relational Data between Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change” (Relational UNFCCC Data) dataset contains dyadic data on how parties to the UNFCCC (i.e. member states or coalitions of member states) react to other parties’ oral interventions during the negotiations. Each observation in the dataset consists of a bargaining interaction between a country dyad, at a specific negotiation day, about a specific negotiation topic. The dataset includes 62 097 dyadic bargaining interactions among the 222 participants to the UNFCCC negotiations (including countries and coalitions) over a series of 461 negotiation days between 1995 and 2013. The dataset was obtained by hand-coding the Earth Negotiation Bulletins (ENBs). It covers all meetings of the official UNFCCC bodies reported in the ENBs between February 1995 (11th Session of the INC in New York) and December 2013 (COP19 in Warsaw).