Negotiator's toolkit

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Negotiator's toolkit

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  • Rules of procedure
  • E-learning course
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater

MEAs

  • Nagoya Protocol

Keywords

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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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2018

8th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention MOP8) serviced by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Throughout the meeting, many speakers highlighted the importance of further expanding the Water Convention and making its tools globally available to enable cooperation and effective water management. MOP8 addressed many substantive issues, including reporting under the Convention and SDG indicator

Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Economic Commission for Europe, Accession, Implementation, Climate change, European Union
Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol

The rules of procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (linked above) are applied (Art. 26(5)) except for a supplementary provision to Rule 21. See NP MOP 1 Decision NP-1/1 linked below.
MEAs:
Nagoya Protocol
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Meetings, Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity
NP-1/1.Rules of procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya ProtocolFurther Treaty Information
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