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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  • Rules of procedure
  • Case studies
  • E-learning course
  • Presentation
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

المناقشات

  • الإدارة البيئية
  • المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
  • تغير المناخ
  • البحار والمياه العذبة
  • الأراضي والزراعة

MEAs

  • LRTAP
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury
  • Montreal Protocol
  • SAICM
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNCCD
  • UNCLOS

الكلمات المفتاحية

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

5th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020

At the end of a long week of negotiations, delegates adopted the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste, along with 12 resolutions and a High-level Declaration to ensure chemicals are managed

MEAs:
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
المناقشات:
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Resolution, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Capacity building, Implementation, Open-ended Working Group
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 15)

Following two weeks of high-level discussions and negotiations, delegates adopted 38 decisions to improve drought resilience, reduce land degradation, invest in land restoration efforts, and improve synergies with the climate change and biodiversity conventions.

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
الأراضي والزراعة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Land degradation, Climate change, Implementation, Biological diversity, Committee on Science and Technology, Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Capacity building, Rio Conventions, Indigenous peoples, Women Major Group
E-learning course
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2022

Online Negotiations

As COVID-19 restrictions made in-person meetings impossible, many United Nations and Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) meetings have moved to a virtual format. This course takes a closer look at how these negotiation processes are dealt with in a virtual context.
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COVID-19 pandemic, Meetings, Compliance Committee, Voting, Subsidiary body, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Biosafety, Compliance, Consensus, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Standing Committee, Non-governmental organizations, Regional groups, Economic Commission for Europe, Least Developed Countries
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Presentation
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2021

UNEP Training Presentation on Virtual Negotiations

Virtual MEA negotiations training provided by UNEP at the 17th Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (University of Eastern Finland – UNEP).
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Meetings, United Nations Environment Programme, Voting, Subsidiary body, Consensus, Standing Committee, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations General Assembly, Compliance
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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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2019

14th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 14)

The Conference of the Parties ended on a note of optimism that there is a growing alignment of the land, climate, and biodiversity agendas, and, with its sharpened focus on land restoration, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification can

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
الأراضي والزراعة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Biological diversity, Land degradation, Implementation, Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Capacity building, Committee on Science and Technology
Case studies
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2019

Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

Negotiation simulation exercise undertaken during the University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2019.
MEAs:
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
المناقشات:
البحار والمياه العذبة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Biological diversity, Climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable development, United Nations Environment Programme, International Agreement, Sustainable use, Indigenous peoples, United Nations General Assembly, Clearing House Mechanism, Ecosystem services, Greenhouse gases, Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Ecosystem, Open-ended Working Group, Land degradation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Mitigation, Our Common Future
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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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

13th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 13)

Both the CST and the CRIC completed their work ahead of schedule, while several decisions at the heart of the negotiations, including adoption of the 2018-2030 Strategic Framework, alignment of the Convention with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
الأراضي والزراعة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Land degradation, Committee on Science and Technology, Implementation, Working group, United Nations Global Compact, Capacity building, Women Major Group, Rio Conventions