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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

5th Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the BBNJ

Despite more progress at this two-week session than over the last decade, delegates were unable to reach consensus on a new high seas treaty addressing marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and, instead, suspended the session, to be resumed

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 Jurisdiction
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Biological diversity, Sustainable use, Regional groups, Consensus, International Agreement, United Nations General Assembly, Environmental Impact Assessment, In situ, Capacity building, Small Island Developing States, Strategic environmental assessment, Mutually Agreed Terms, Traditional Knowledge, World Trade Organization, Precautionary principle, Package deal, Indigenous peoples, Intellectual property rights, World Intellectual Property Organization, Assessed contribution
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

1st 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 Jurisdiction
Topics:
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Environmental Impact Assessment, Capacity building, Sustainable use, African Group of Negotiators, Technology Transfer, Biological diversity, International Agreement, European Union, Traditional Knowledge, International Seabed Authority, Alliance of Small Island States, Small Island Developing States, In situ, Intellectual property rights, Listing, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Strategic environmental assessment, Regional Fisheries Management Organization, Caribbean Community and Common Market, United Nations General Assembly
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

7th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA GB 7)

MEAs:
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance,
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Sustainable use, Resolution, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Subsidiary body, Multi-Year Programme of Work, Working group, International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, Voluntary Contribution, Implementation, Compliance Committee, Financial rules, In situ, Intellectual property rights, World Intellectual Property Organization