The international UN Climate Change conferences known as “Conferences of the Parties (COPs)” have an enormous convening power and are attended annually by tens of thousands of actors working on climate change topics from a wide range of perspectives. In the COP spaces outside of the formal negotiations, the communication culture is dominated by “side events,” a format that relies heavily on conventional presentations and panels that can be informative, but is generally not conducive to mutual engagement, reflection, or dialogue. There is an urgent need for new dialogue formats that can better foster learning and community-building and thereby harness the enormous latent potential for climate action represented by the diverse stakeholders that gather at the COP. Against this backdrop, and drawing on our experience with the development and implementation of the Co-Creative Reflection and Dialogue Spaces at COP25, COP26, and COP27, we make recommendations for further developing the communication culture of the COPs. At the level of individual sessions, we provide recommendations for designing participatory dialogues that can better support reflection, interconnection, and action orientation. In addition, we offer guidance for scaling up these practices, for instance through networks and communities of practice to support a shift of the overall communication culture of the COPs. Our recommendations focus on interactions and exchanges that unfold outside of the formal negotiation sessions, with a view toward enabling and accelerating transformative action by non-state actors.

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支持集体行动的学习和社区建设：在缔约方会议上营造新的沟通氛围

被称为“缔约方会议（COP）”的联合国气候变化国际会议拥有巨大的召集力，每年都有数万名从不同角度研究气候变化主题的参与者参加。在正式谈判之外的缔约方会议空间中，沟通文化以“会外活动”为主，这种形式严重依赖传统的演示和小组讨论，这些内容可以提供丰富的信息，但通常不利于相互参与、反思或对话。迫切需要新的对话形式，以更好地促进学习和社区建设，从而利用聚集在缔约方会议上的不同利益相关者所代表的气候行动的巨大潜力。在此背景下，并借鉴我们在 COP25、COP26 和 COP27 上开发和实施共同创意反思和对话空间的经验，我们为进一步发展 COP 的传播文化提出建议。在个别会议的层面上，我们提供了设计参与式对话的建议，以更好地支持反思、相互联系和行动导向。此外，我们还提供扩大这些实践的指导，例如通过网络和实践社区来支持缔约方会议整体传播文化的转变。我们的建议侧重于正式谈判会议之外开展的互动和交流，以期促进和加速非国家行为者的变革行动。