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
  • Chemicals and Waste
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • Global Plastics Treaty

Keywords

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment (INC-3)

As concerns about the scourge of plastic pollution mount worldwide, delegates shared their views on the “full life cycle of plastic,” with some favoring measures addressing plastic production, and others favoring downstream measures to eliminate plastic waste. Still others focused

MEAs:
International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastics Pollution, including in the Marine Environment
Topics:
Marine and Freshwater,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement, Wastes, Resolution, Small Island Developing States, World Trade Organization, Open-ended Working Group
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
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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