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

  • Case studies
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

المناقشات

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

MEAs

  • Barcelona Convention
  • Kyiv Protocol
  • LRTAP
  • Montreal Protocol
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNCLOS
  • UNEA

الكلمات المفتاحية

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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
Financial rules
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2021

Financial Rules for the Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention - Decision IV/4 Financial arrangements under the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

Adopted at the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties, held in Geneva on 22 October 2021. Decisions issued in addendum to report of fourth session (ECE/MP.PRTR/2021/6/Add.1).
MEAs:
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
المناقشات:
تغير المناخ,
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, Financial rules
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

UNEA-5 (Online Session)

The Assembly adopted the UN Environment Programme Medium-Term Strategy for 2022-2025, and the programme of work and budget for the next biennium. It also launched the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of UNEP. During a high-level leadership

MEAs:
United Nations Environment Assembly
المناقشات:
الإدارة البيئية
الكلمات المفتاحية:
United Nations Environment Programme, Sustainable development, Contribution, Climate change, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations General Assembly
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

Barcelona Convention COP 21 and its Protocols

Delegates to the Barcelona Convention adopted 14 decisions—one on the programme of work and budget for 2020-2021, and 13 thematic decisions, including on governance, an emissions control area for sulphur oxides, and marine pollution from land-based sources.

MEAs:
Barcelona Convention
الكلمات المفتاحية:
European Union, Compliance Committee, International Maritime Organization, Capacity building, Biological diversity, Implementation, International Seabed Authority, Economic Commission for Africa, Listing, Habitat, Memorandum of Understanding, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Open-ended Working Group, Sustainable use, Assessed contribution, Climate change, Commission on Sustainable Development, Sustainable development, Trust fund, Voluntary Contribution
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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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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Case studies
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2007

Stockholm Convention on POPs: Adding a substantive element to a draft MEA

MEAs:
Stockholm Convention
المناقشات:
المواد الكيميائية والنفايات
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Persistent Organic Pollutants, 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
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