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

  • Case studies
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Chemicals and Waste
  • Climate and Atmosphere
  • Marine and Freshwater
  • Land and Agriculture

MEAs

  • LRTAP
  • Montreal Protocol
  • Stockholm Convention
  • UNCCD
  • UNCLOS

Keywords

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 15)

Following two weeks of high-level discussions and negotiations, delegates adopted 38 decisions to improve drought resilience, reduce land degradation, invest in land restoration efforts, and improve synergies with the climate change and biodiversity conventions.

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
Land degradation, Climate change, Implementation, Biological diversity, Committee on Science and Technology, Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Capacity building, Rio Conventions, Indigenous peoples, Women Major Group
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

14th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 14)

The Conference of the Parties ended on a note of optimism that there is a growing alignment of the land, climate, and biodiversity agendas, and, with its sharpened focus on land restoration, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification can

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
Biological diversity, Land degradation, Implementation, Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Capacity building, Committee on Science and Technology
Case studies
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2019

Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

Negotiation simulation exercise undertaken during the University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2019.
MEAs:
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Topics:
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Biological diversity, Climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable development, United Nations Environment Programme, International Agreement, Sustainable use, Indigenous peoples, United Nations General Assembly, Clearing House Mechanism, Ecosystem services, Greenhouse gases, Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Ecosystem, Open-ended Working Group, Land degradation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Mitigation, Our Common Future
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

13th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 13)

Both the CST and the CRIC completed their work ahead of schedule, while several decisions at the heart of the negotiations, including adoption of the 2018-2030 Strategic Framework, alignment of the Convention with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and

MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Land degradation, Committee on Science and Technology, Implementation, Working group, United Nations Global Compact, Capacity building, Women Major Group, Rio Conventions
Case studies
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2007

Making Adjustments under the Montreal Protocol and LRTAP

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol,
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Alliance of Small Island States, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, Country with Economy in Transition, Development Assistance Committee, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, United Nations General Assembly, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Voluntary Contribution, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Greenhouse gases, Vienna Setting, Subsidiary body, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
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Case studies
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2007

Stockholm Convention on POPs: Adding a substantive element to a draft MEA

MEAs:
Stockholm Convention
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Persistent Organic Pollutants, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Alliance of Small Island States, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, Country with Economy in Transition, Development Assistance Committee, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, United Nations General Assembly, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Voluntary Contribution, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Greenhouse gases, Vienna Setting, Subsidiary body
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