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
  • E-learning course
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Chemicals and Waste
  • Biological diversity
  • Land and Agriculture

MEAs

  • Basel Convention
  • CMS
  • Rotterdam Convention
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNCCD

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

2021 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Parties and stakeholders to the three global hazardous chemicals and wastes conventions convened online to deal with urgent operational and substantive work including election of officers, the programmes of work and budgets for all three conventions, and a decision regarding

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
Basel Convention
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Global Environment Facility, Wastes, Chemical Review Committee, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Compliance Committee, European Union, Financial rules, Hazardous wastes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Conference Room Paper, Open-ended Working Group, Meetings, Scale of assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, National Implementation Plan, Persistant Organic Pollutant Review Committee, Small Island Developing States, Trust fund
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2020

13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP13)

Parties adopted the Gandhinagar Declaration calling for migratory species and “ecological connectivity” to be integrated and prioritized in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Parties also added 10 new species to the Convention on Migratory Species Appendices, approved conservation plans for

MEAs:
Convention on Migratory Species
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Meetings, Resolution, European Union, Standing Committee, Habitat, Non-governmental organizations, Listing, Non-Party, Biological diversity, Voluntary Contribution, Working group, Indigenous peoples, Memorandum of Understanding, United Nations Environment Programme, Global Biodiversity Forum, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Open-ended Working Group, Implementation, International Organization, The International Union for Conservation of Nature
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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