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Showing 1 - 9 of 11 results|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20235th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020
At the end of a long week of negotiations, delegates adopted the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste, along with 12 resolutions and a High-level Declaration to ensure chemicals are managed
MEAs:Strategic Approach to International Chemicals ManagementTopics:Chemicals and Waste|IISD/ENB summary meeting report202214th 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|E-learning course2022Online 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 GovernanceImage
|Presentation2021UNEP Training Presentation on Virtual Negotiations
Virtual MEA negotiations training provided by UNEP at the 17th Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (University of Eastern Finland – UNEP).Topics:Environmental GovernanceImage
|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20193rd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)
The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury focused on achieving the smooth functioning of an international treaty body as well as substantive and technical issues aimed at fostering action to address
MEAs:Minamata Convention on MercuryTopics:Environmental Governance,Chemicals and Waste|IISD/ENB summary meeting report201813th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13)
COP13 adopted 25 resolutions, including on a language strategy with a step-by-step plan to add Arabic as the fourth Convention language, gender, peatlands, blue carbon ecosystems, sustainable urbanization, agriculture, intertidal wetlands, wetlands in West Asia, and Arctic and sub-Arctic wetlands
Topics:Biological diversity,Environmental Governance,Marine and Freshwater|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20171st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)
MEAs:Minamata Convention on MercuryTopics:Environmental Governance,Chemicals and Waste|Financial rules2012Financial Rules for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management - Resolution III/I: Financial and technical resources for implementation of the Strategic Approach
Resolution III/I, adopted at the third session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM3). The new version of SAICM texts, which includes the resolutions adopted by ICCM at its first, second and third sessions, exists in English only.MEAs:Strategic Approach to International Chemicals ManagementTopics:Chemicals and Waste,Environmental GovernanceImage
Rules of procedureInternational Conference on Chemicals Management of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
The Rules of Procedure (see Annex 1, p.106) apply to any session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management convened pursuant to section VII of the Overarching Policy Strategy of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management.MEAs:Strategic Approach to International Chemicals ManagementTopics:Chemicals and WasteImage
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