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
  • E-learning course
  • Presentation
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

المناقشات

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

MEAs

  • Barcelona Convention
  • LRTAP
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury
  • Montreal Protocol
  • Rotterdam Convention
  • SAICM
  • Stockholm Convention
  • اتفاقية بازل

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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2023

2023 Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Beyond addressing resource mobilization and the illegal traffic of hazardous chemicals and wastes, delegates tried to effectiveness challenges under the Rotterdam Convention, listed new persistent organic pollutants and adopted a compliance mechanism under the Stockholm Convention, and tackled guidelines on

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
اتفاقية بازل
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Hazardous wastes, Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Listing
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
Online negs cover image
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

Barcelona Convention COP 22

As well as the landmark decision on controlling sulphur oxide emissions—which will have major health and environmental benefits for Mediterranean communities—COP 22 adopted several significant plans.

MEAs:
Barcelona Convention
المناقشات:
لتنوع البيولوجي,
البحار والمياه العذبة,
تغير المناخ
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Compliance Committee, European Union, Implementation, Biological diversity, International Maritime Organization, Ecosystem approach, Climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Habitat, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Amendment, Amendment, Non-governmental organizations, Memorandum of Understanding, Sustainable development, Capacity building, Hazardous wastes, International Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, European Commission
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
Virtual MEA negotiations presentation.pdfView
virtual negotiations 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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

2017 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
اتفاقية بازل
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية,
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Meetings, Wastes, Listing, European Union, Persistent Organic Pollutants, African Group of Negotiators, Hazardous wastes, Chemical Review Committee, Memorandum of Understanding