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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

UN Climate Change Conference - United Arab Emirates Nov/Dec 2023

Parties adopted a decision operationalizing the new loss and damage fund and a number of parties announced pledges for its initial capitalization. But negotiations were difficult on the other central outcomes: the first Global Stocktake, the Global Goal on Adaptation

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Adaptation, Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Capacity building, Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism, Small Island Developing States, Greenhouse gases, Least Developed Countries, Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Alliance of Small Island States, Carbon Market
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

14th Session of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP14) of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention)

Delegates adopted 21 resolutions, including several intended to increase the scope and diversity of engagement in the work of the Wetlands Convention. These included promoting the role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in wetland management, connecting with youth, and

Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Resolution, Indigenous peoples, Wise use
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

34th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP34)

Despite phasing out 98% of ozone depleting substances worldwide relative to a 1990 baseline and making major inroads in avoiding catastrophic climate change, parties grappled with recent scientific findings, whether and how to build on the Protocol’s success to tackle

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Open-ended Working Group, Ozone-depleting substance, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Hydrofluorocarbons, Climate change, Ozone Secretariat, Amendment, Amendment, Baseline, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Conference Room Paper
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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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

Katowice Climate Change Conference - December 2018

Parties adopted the Katowice Climate Package at COP 24, which finalized nearly all of the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including decisions to facilitate common interpretation and implementation of the Paris Agreement on the mitigation section of NDCs, adaptation communications, transparency

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation, Mitigation, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary body, Capacity building, Least Developed Countries
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

MOP 30 adopted 21 decisions on: issues important to the January 2019 entry into force of the Kigali Amendment on Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), including data reporting issues, including timeline and revised reporting forms, ways to report mixtures and blends, and setting

Keywords:
Amendment, Amendment, Hydrofluorocarbons, Open-ended Working Group, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Ozone Secretariat, Conference Room Paper, Ozone-depleting substance, European Union, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons, African Group of Negotiators
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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

Vienna Convention COP 11 and Montreal Protocol MOP 29

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Conference Room Paper, Hydrofluorocarbons, Open-ended Working Group, European Union, Ozone-depleting substance, Amendment, Ozone Secretariat, Voluntary Contribution