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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Resource type

  • Rules of procedure
  • Case studies
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

المناقشات

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

MEAs

  • CITES
  • Kyiv Protocol
  • LRTAP
  • Montreal Protocol
  • UNCCD
  • UNCLOS

الكلمات المفتاحية

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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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

18th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP18)

COP18 highlighted the increasing pressures on CITES as an instrument to counter the rising scale of biodiversity loss, as parties struggled to address stresses other than trade on wildlife populations, including habitat loss, disease outbreaks, and human-wildlife conflict. These are

MEAs:
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي,
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Resolution, Sustainable use, European Union, Habitat, Amendment, Amendment, Indigenous peoples, Ecosystem services, Listing, Secret ballot, Enforcement, Ecosystem, Working group, Standing Committee, Open-ended Working Group
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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2018

13th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13)

COP13 adopted 25 resolutions, including on a language strategy with a step-by-step plan to add Arabic as the fourth Convention language, gender, peatlands, blue carbon ecosystems, sustainable urbanization, agriculture, intertidal wetlands, wetlands in West Asia, and Arctic and sub-Arctic wetlands

المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي,
الإدارة البيئية,
البحار والمياه العذبة
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Resolution, Wise use, Ecosystem, Scientific and Technical Review Panel, Ecosystem services
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
Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making Procedures and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

MEAs:
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, Public participation
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Case studies
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2007

Making Adjustments under the Montreal Protocol and LRTAP

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol,
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
المناقشات:
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات,
تغير المناخ
الكلمات المفتاحية:
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Alliance of Small Island States, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, Country with Economy in Transition, Development Assistance Committee, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, United Nations General Assembly, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Voluntary Contribution, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Greenhouse gases, Vienna Setting, Subsidiary body, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
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