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
  • Financial rules

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Chemicals and Waste
  • Climate and Atmosphere
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater

MEAs

  • LRTAP
  • Montreal Protocol
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNCLOS
  • WHC

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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
Topics:
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
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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Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. The Committee is elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention which also determines financial contributions (see its Rules linked below).
MEAs:
World Heritage Convention
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Contribution, Implementation
Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Further Treaty Information
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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
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
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
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
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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Financial rules
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1972

Financial Rules for the World Heritage Convention

Part IV of the Convention, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference at its seventeenth session Paris, 16 November 1972, provides for the creation of a Fund for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
MEAs:
World Heritage Convention
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Financial rules, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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