Image
Browse all resources
Resource type
Topics
MEAs
Keywords
-
Chemicals and wastes management
(30)
- Basel Convention Regional Centres (1)
- Chemical Review Committee (2)
- Environmentally Sound Management (1)
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (1)
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (1)
- Listing (11)
- National Implementation Plan (1)
- Persistant Organic Pollutant Review Committee (1)
- Persistent Organic Pollutants (4)
- Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (3)
- Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (9)
-
Wastes
(13)
- Climate and energy (24)
- Adaptation Fund (7)
- Baseline (1)
- Carbon Market (1)
- Clean Development Mechanism (2)
- Climate change (17)
-
Greenhouse gases
(13)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (8)
- Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (1)
- Mitigation (3)
- Concepts (9)
- Conduct of business in MEA meetings (84)
-
Financial rules
(48)
-
Contribution
(10)
- Procedural rules and processes (51)
- Amendment (18)
-
Decision making, voting and explanation of vote
(16)
- Consensus (10)
-
Voting
(12)
- Conference outcome documents and plans (2)
- Conservation of Biodiversity (60)
- Environmental law and policy principles, processes and tools (46)
- Best available technique (2)
- Capacity building (29)
- Clearing House Mechanism (2)
-
Economic Instruments
(2)
- Ecosystem approach (1)
- Environmental Impact Assessment (8)
- Environmentally Sound Management (1)
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (1)
- Precautionary principle (5)
- Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (1)
- Public participation (1)
- Strategic environmental assessment (3)
- Sustainable development (5)
- Sustainable use (15)
- Technology Transfer (5)
- Wise use (2)
- Environmental reporting (1)
- European Union institutions (2)
- Funding (17)
- Global Environment Facility (6)
- Scale of assessment (2)
-
Specialized funds
(12)
- Generic terms (1)
- Hard law (4)
-
Convention
(4)
-
Multilateral Environmental Agreement
(2)
- Protocol (1)
- Implementation compliance and enforcement (42)
- Indigenous peoples and local communities (22)
- Institutional practice - other bodies (33)
- Vienna Setting (2)
-
Working group
(31)
- Intellectual Property (3)
- International Agreement (14)
- International Organization (55)
- European Union (29)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (7)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (8)
-
International Financial Institution
(3)
-
Multilateral Development Bank
(2)
- International Labour Organization (1)
- International Maritime Organization (4)
- International Seabed Authority (13)
- International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (2)
- La Francophonie (1)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (1)
- Regional Fisheries Management Organization (2)
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (2)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2)
- World Health Organization (1)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (2)
- World Trade Organization (2)
- Land and agriculture (9)
- Marine protection (4)
- MEA national plans and actors (1)
-
National Action Plans
(1)
- Meeting documents (12)
-
In-session documents
(12)
- Meetings (37)
- Negotiating blocs (44)
- Central and Eastern Europe (2)
- European Union (29)
- Least Developed Countries (6)
- Like-Minded Group (1)
-
UNFCCC negotiating groups
(24)
- Non-governmental organizations (5)
- Ozone layer protection (9)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (6)
-
Ozone-depleting substance
(7)
- Regional Commissions (4)
- Regional groups (8)
- Regional Organizations (5)
- Regions (1)
- Scientific advisory bodies (15)
- Specialized Environmental Committees (7)
- State/country groupings (12)
- Strategic plans, partnerships and groupings (13)
- Subsidiary body (31)
- Sustainable Development Frameworks and Bodies (3)
- Treaty making process (49)
- Accession (3)
- Amendment (16)
- Approval (1)
- Binding (1)
-
Committee
(33)
- United Nations Bodies and Institutions (51)
- Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2)
- Commission on Sustainable Development (1)
- International Maritime Organization (4)
-
Specialized agency
(25)
- United Nations Environment Programme (22)
- United Nations General Assembly (8)
- United Nations Global Compact (1)
- United Nations University (1)
- World Trade Organization (2)
Showing 1 - 9 of 10 results|IISD/ENB summary meeting report202234th 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 ProtocolTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and Atmosphere|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 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 report20181st Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on an International Legally Binding Instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyo...
Delegates considered a document prepared by the IGC President, which identified areas for further discussion not containing treaty text, aimed at leading to substantive discussions based on the elements of a package agreed in 2011 on marine genetic resources (MGRs)
MEAs:Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National JurisdictionTopics:Marine and Freshwater|IISD/ENB summary meeting report201617th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (COP17)
Delegates considered 90 agenda items and 62 species-listing proposals submitted by 64 countries. Some of the resolutions and decisions adopted concern: actions to combat wildlife trafficking; demand reduction strategies to combat illegal trade in CITES-listed species; provisions on international trade
MEAs:Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and FloraTopics:Biological diversity,Environmental Governance|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
Rules of procedureRules of procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The rules of procedure of the COP to the CBD (linked above) apply, except as may be otherwise decided by the COP serving as the MOP to the Protocol ( Cartagena Protocol Article 29(5)).MEAs:The Cartagena Protocol on BiosafetyTopics:Biological diversityImage
Rules of procedureRules of Procedure for the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol
The COP/MOP to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety serves as the MOP to this Protocol ( Article 14). The rules of procedure of the COP to the CBD (linked above) therefore apply (as per Article 29(5) Cartagena Protocol).MEAs:The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on BiosafetyTopics:Biological diversityImage
- United Nations Bodies and Institutions (51)
- Regional Commissions (4)
- Meeting documents (12)
-
Multilateral Development Bank
(2)
- Intellectual Property (3)
- Protocol (1)
-
Multilateral Environmental Agreement
(2)
- Generic terms (1)
- Conference outcome documents and plans (2)
- Procedural rules and processes (51)
-
Contribution
(10)
- Climate and energy (24)