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
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Climate and Atmosphere
  • Marine and Freshwater
  • Land and Agriculture

MEAs

  • UNCCD
  • UNCLOS
  • UNFCCC

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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
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
Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

The Rules of Procedure were adopted at COP 1 (see below 1/COP.1). Subsequently rules 22, 31 and 47 were amended at COP 2 (see below 20/COP.2 and 21/COP.2) but the final text of rule 47 remains unresolved (see below 24/COP.12).
MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Topics:
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
Desertification
1/COP.1 Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties20/COP.2 Consideration of rules 22 and 31 of the rules of procedure21/COP.2 Consideration of rule 47 of the rules of procedure24/COP.12 Rule 47 of the rules of procedureFurther Treaty Information
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