Negotiator's toolkit

This comprehensive knowledge base will help you to understand and navigate multilateral environmental negotiations and related processes.

Negotiator's toolkit

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  • Case studies
  • Manual
  • Video
  • Presentation
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

المناقشات

  • الإدارة البيئية
  • المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
  • تغير المناخ
  • لتنوع البيولوجي

MEAs

  • CBD
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury
  • Rotterdam Convention
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNFCCC
  • اتفاقية بازل

الكلمات المفتاحية

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

5th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury

Parties took crucial steps toward eliminating mercury pollution, including by adopting decisions on: new dates to phase out mercury-added products including cosmetics, strengthened ties with Indigenous Peoples, the Convention’s first effectiveness evaluation, and a threshold for mercury waste, which will

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Wastes, Indigenous peoples, Capacity building, European Union, African Group of Negotiators, Global Environment Facility, Best available technique, Global Biodiversity Forum, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Trust fund, Environmentally Sound Management, Technology Transfer, Financial rules, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Mutually Agreed Terms
Video
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2023

Video example of point of order being raised by the Russian Federation in plenary at at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-2).

المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Point of order, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement
Presentation
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2022

CARICOM Key Principles of Negotiation Training Slides

Training presentation on key principles of MEA negotiation provided by CARICOM to prepare regional negotiators for CBD COP 15.
MEAs:
الاتفاقية المتعلقة بالتنوع البيولوجي
المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي,
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Binding, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Coalitions, Working group, Resolution, Point of order, African Group of Negotiators, Conference Room Paper, Least Developed Countries, Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, Consensus
uncbd caricom training cover
Manual
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2022

Managing Processes within the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Guide for Presiding Officers

MEAs:
الاتفاقية المتعلقة بالتنوع البيولوجي
المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Voting, Working group, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Subsidiary body, Point of order, Amendment, Amendment, Consensus, Negotiating blocs, Secret ballot, Formal objection, Information document, Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Financial rules, Compliance Committee, Non-governmental organizations, Small Island Developing States, Subsidiary Body for Implementation
manual cover
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (2nd Part)

Parties adopted 12 decisions, including on artisanal and small-scale mining, phasing out products containing mercury, waste containing mercury, and the effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, that have set the course of implementation of the Minamata Convention in the years to

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
المناقشات:
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Wastes, Implementation, Meetings, European Union, Capacity building, Indigenous peoples, United Nations Environment Programme, Financial rules, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Subsidiary body, African Group of Negotiators
Presentation
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2021

Rules of Procedure and Consensus in MEA Negotiations: UNEP Training Slides

المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Consensus, Voting, United Nations Environment Programme, Point of order, Conference Room Paper
rop presentation cover
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

2021 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Parties and stakeholders to the three global hazardous chemicals and wastes conventions convened online to deal with urgent operational and substantive work including election of officers, the programmes of work and budgets for all three conventions, and a decision regarding

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
اتفاقية بازل
المناقشات:
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Global Environment Facility, Wastes, Chemical Review Committee, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Compliance Committee, European Union, Financial rules, Hazardous wastes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Conference Room Paper, Open-ended Working Group, Meetings, Scale of assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, National Implementation Plan, Persistant Organic Pollutant Review Committee, Small Island Developing States, Trust fund
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)

The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury focused on achieving the smooth functioning of an international treaty body as well as substantive and technical issues aimed at fostering action to address

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
African Group of Negotiators, Meetings, Wastes, Subsidiary body, European Union, Capacity building, United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, Compliance Committee, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Technology Transfer, World Health Organization, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Global Environment Facility, Central and Eastern Europe, Memorandum of Understanding, Group of Western European and Other States, Small Island Developing States, Open-ended Working Group, Financial rules
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

1st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Global Environment Facility, Meetings, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Financial rules, Capacity building, Memorandum of Understanding, European Union, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Non-Party, African Group of Negotiators, Subsidiary body, United Nations Environment Programme, Basel Convention Regional Centres, Open-ended Working Group, Best available technique, Compliance Committee, Central and Eastern Europe, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Conference Room Paper