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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  • Rules of procedure
  • Presentation
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Biological diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater
  • Land and Agriculture

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • CBD
  • UNCCD

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Presentation
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2022

CARICOM Key Principles of Negotiation Training Slides

Training presentation on key principles of MEA negotiation provided by CARICOM to prepare regional negotiators for CBD COP 15.
MEAs:
Convention on Biological Diversity
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Binding, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Coalitions, Working group, Resolution, Point of order, African Group of Negotiators, Conference Room Paper, Least Developed Countries, Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, Consensus
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Delegates delved, for the first time, into textual negotiations on the basis of a “zero draft” containing treaty text developed by Conference President Rena Lee (Singapore). Deliberations were productive but there is still much work to be done with the

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:
European Union, Sustainable use, African Group of Negotiators, Biological diversity, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Environmental Impact Assessment, Clearing House Mechanism, In situ, Small Island Developing States, Capacity building, International Seabed Authority, Traditional Knowledge
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

2nd Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)

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:
African Group of Negotiators, Sustainable use, European Union, Biological diversity, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Environmental Impact Assessment, Like-Minded Group, Traditional Knowledge
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

1st Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on an International Legally Binding Instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyo...

Delegates considered a document prepared by the IGC President, which identified areas for further discussion not containing treaty text, aimed at leading to substantive discussions based on the elements of a package agreed in 2011 on marine genetic resources (MGRs)

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:
Marine and Freshwater
Keywords:
Environmental Impact Assessment, Capacity building, Sustainable use, African Group of Negotiators, Technology Transfer, Biological diversity, International Agreement, European Union, Traditional Knowledge, International Seabed Authority, Alliance of Small Island States, Small Island Developing States, In situ, Intellectual property rights, Listing, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Strategic environmental assessment, Regional Fisheries Management Organization, Caribbean Community and Common Market, United Nations General Assembly
Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

The Rules of Procedure were adopted at COP 1 (see below 1/COP.1). Subsequently rules 22, 31 and 47 were amended at COP 2 (see below 20/COP.2 and 21/COP.2) but the final text of rule 47 remains unresolved (see below 24/COP.12).
MEAs:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Topics:
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
Desertification
1/COP.1 Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties20/COP.2 Consideration of rules 22 and 31 of the rules of procedure21/COP.2 Consideration of rule 47 of the rules of procedure24/COP.12 Rule 47 of the rules of procedureFurther Treaty Information
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