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Showing 1 - 9 of 12 results|Manual2022Managing Processes within the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Guide for Presiding Officers
MEAs:Convention on Biological DiversityTopics:Biological diversityImage
|E-learning course2022Online 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.Topics:Environmental GovernanceImage
|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20219th 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|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20212021 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,Basel ConventionTopics:Chemicals and Waste|IISD/ENB summary meeting report202013th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP13)
Parties adopted the Gandhinagar Declaration calling for migratory species and “ecological connectivity” to be integrated and prioritized in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Parties also added 10 new species to the Convention on Migratory Species Appendices, approved conservation plans for
MEAs:Convention on Migratory SpeciesTopics:Biological diversity,Environmental Governance|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20182018 UN Biodiversity Conference
The Conference adopted a number of decisions on a series of strategic, administrative, financial, and ecosystem-related issues of relevance to the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols. These included 37 decisions under the CBD COP; 16 decisions under the
MEAs:Convention on Biological DiversityTopics:Biological diversity,Environmental Governance|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20171st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)
MEAs:Minamata Convention on MercuryTopics:Environmental Governance,Chemicals and Waste|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20172017 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)
MEAs:Rotterdam Convention,Stockholm Convention,Basel ConventionTopics:Environmental Governance,Chemicals and Waste|Financial rules2010Financial Rules for the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartegena Protocol
Per Art 14 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supp. Protocol, adopted at 5th COP/MOP of the Cartagena Protocol, the COP/MOP to Cartagena serves as MOP to the Supp. Protocol. Thus, the financial rules of the Convention on Biological Diversity apply (Art 29(5) Cartagena).MEAs:The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,Convention on Biological DiversityTopics:Environmental Governance,Biological diversityImage
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