The EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership and UN Climate Change Conferences

Abstract

The European Union-Brazil Strategic Partnership highlights collaboration in the fight against climate change. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether there has been coordination or, at least, a convergence of positions of the EU and Brazil in the last four United Nations Climate Change Conferences (2011-2014). To this aim, there is a review of academic and official sources and an empirical analysis of the media diplomacy messages of both actors at the four conferences which are object of study.

Keywords

• united nations climate change conferences
• european union
• brazilian diplomacy
• media diplomacy analysis