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
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Chemicals and Waste
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • Global Plastics Treaty
  • International Plant Protection Convention

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
Rules of procedure

International Plant Protection Convention Rules of Procedure of the Commission on Phytosanitary measures

Article XI establishes the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), which acts like a Conference of Parties through representation and regular meetings. The FAO is the host organization for the Commission.
MEAs:
International Plant Protection Convention
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
International Plant Protection Convention, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Financial rules
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2012

Financial Rules for the International Plant Protection Convention - IPPC Resource Mobilization Strategy

The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-7) adopted the Resource Mobilization strategy for IPPC during the seventh session (Rome, 19 - 23 March 2012)
MEAs:
International Plant Protection Convention
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
International Plant Protection Convention, Financial rules, Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
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