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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.

Topics:
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
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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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
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
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
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

Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance,
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Resolution, Wise use, Ecosystem, Scientific and Technical Review Panel, Ecosystem services