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IISD/ENB Summary Meeting Reports

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المناقشات

  • الإدارة البيئية
  • المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
  • لتنوع البيولوجي
  • البحار والمياه العذبة

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • Global Plastics Treaty

الكلمات المفتاحية

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2023

3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment (INC-3)

As concerns about the scourge of plastic pollution mount worldwide, delegates shared their views on the “full life cycle of plastic,” with some favoring measures addressing plastic production, and others favoring downstream measures to eliminate plastic waste. Still others focused

MEAs:
International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastics Pollution, including in the Marine Environment
المناقشات:
البحار والمياه العذبة,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement, Wastes, Resolution, Small Island Developing States, World Trade Organization, Open-ended Working Group
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2022

5th Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the BBNJ

Despite more progress at this two-week session than over the last decade, delegates were unable to reach consensus on a new high seas treaty addressing marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and, instead, suspended the session, to be resumed

MEAs:
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي,
البحار والمياه العذبة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Biological diversity, Sustainable use, Regional groups, Consensus, International Agreement, United Nations General Assembly, Environmental Impact Assessment, In situ, Capacity building, Small Island Developing States, Strategic environmental assessment, Mutually Agreed Terms, Traditional Knowledge, World Trade Organization, Precautionary principle, Package deal, Indigenous peoples, Intellectual property rights, World Intellectual Property Organization, Assessed contribution
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2021

9th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention

The meeting successfully highlighted the importance of transboundary water cooperation, welcomed Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Togo as new Parties, and saw the signing of the Ministerial Declaration on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin by ministers from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal.

المناقشات:
البحار والمياه العذبة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Economic Commission for Europe, Meetings, Accession, European Union, Climate change, Implementation, Capacity building, International Financial Institution, Subsidiary body, Non-Party, European Commission, Sustainable development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Working group
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2018

8th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention MOP8) serviced by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Throughout the meeting, many speakers highlighted the importance of further expanding the Water Convention and making its tools globally available to enable cooperation and effective water management. MOP8 addressed many substantive issues, including reporting under the Convention and SDG indicator

المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
البحار والمياه العذبة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Economic Commission for Europe, Accession, Implementation, Climate change, European Union