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
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater

MEAs

  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Keywords

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Financial rules
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2022

Financial Rules for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - Resolution XIV.1: Financial and budgetary matters

Financial Rules published individually for each COP. Latest is Resolution XIV.1, adopted at 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Wuhan, China, and Geneva, Switzerland 5-13 November 2022.
MEAs:
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat
Topics:
Marine and Freshwater,
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Financial rules, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Resolution
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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
E-learning course
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2022

Online 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 Governance
Keywords:
Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COVID-19 pandemic, Meetings, Compliance Committee, Voting, Subsidiary body, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Biosafety, Compliance, Consensus, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Standing Committee, Non-governmental organizations, Regional groups, Economic Commission for Europe, Least Developed Countries
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Rules of procedure

Rules 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 Biosafety
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Biosafety
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Financial rules
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1996

Financial Rules for the Administration of the Trust Fund for the Convention on Biological Diversity (ANNEX I TO DECISION I/6, AS AMENDED BY DECISION III/1)

Applicable mutatis mutandis to the Trust Funds of the Biosafety Protocol (BG), the Special Voluntary Trust Fund under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (BH) and for Facilitating Participation of Developing Country Parties to Cartagena Protocol Process (BI).
MEAs:
Convention on Biological Diversity,
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Trust fund, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Financial rules, Biosafety
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