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Table 2

Power and narratives of actors in the deliberative forum on loss and damage

Actors	Power			Dominant Narratives
	(a)	(b)	(c)
	Knowledge and Expertise	Resources	Status
Government Bureaucrats, Politicians, Regional Policy Planners, Science experts	High Scientific, Administrative, Legal	High Economic resources, Funding gatekeepers	High Social and political	Logical-rational narratives Legal or institutional and Empirical or scientific
Civil Society Groups, Climate Activists, Professional Groups	High Ideology, Scientific	Medium Funding, economic resources, *social capital	Medium Social and political	Normative Narratives Driven by ideology & belief systems (At times, uses logical-rational narratives too)
Community Leaders, People’s Organizations, Indigenous Group Leaders	Medium Scientific, Ideology, Socio-cultural, *Sectoral	Medium *Social capital	Low ∼Social and political	Normative Narratives (Strong emphasis on ideology & belief systems)
Community Members, Individual Fisherfolks & Farmers	High Socio-cultural, Local knowledge *Experiential,	Low Economic	Low Social and political	Emotional Narratives (Outright expression of feelings and sentiments)

Actors	Power			Dominant Narratives
	(a)	(b)	(c)
	Knowledge and Expertise	Resources	Status
Government Bureaucrats, Politicians, Regional Policy Planners, Science experts	HighScientific, Administrative, Legal	HighEconomic resources, Funding gatekeepers	HighSocial and political	Logical-rational narrativesLegal or institutional and Empirical or scientific
Civil Society Groups, Climate Activists, Professional Groups	HighIdeology, Scientific	MediumFunding, economic resources, *social capital	MediumSocial and political	Normative NarrativesDriven by ideology & belief systems (At times, uses logical-rational narratives too)
Community Leaders, People’s Organizations, Indigenous Group Leaders	MediumScientific,Ideology,Socio-cultural, *Sectoral	Medium*Social capital	Low∼Social and political	Normative Narratives(Strong emphasis on ideology & belief systems)
Community Members, Individual Fisherfolks & Farmers	HighSocio-cultural,Local knowledge*Experiential,	LowEconomic	LowSocial and political	Emotional Narratives(Outright expression of feelings and sentiments)

Legend: *relatively high, ∼ relatively medium/moderate

Source: By author, drawn from observations at the 2022 Southeast Asia loss and damage workshop