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Manual
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2022

Managing Processes within the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Guide for Presiding Officers

MEAs:
Convention on Biological Diversity
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Voting, Working group, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Subsidiary body, Point of order, Amendment, Amendment, Consensus, Negotiating blocs, Secret ballot, Formal objection, Information document, Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Financial rules, Compliance Committee, Non-governmental organizations, Small Island Developing States, Subsidiary Body for Implementation
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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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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

2018 UN Biodiversity Conference

The Conference adopted a number of decisions on a series of strategic, administrative, financial, and ecosystem-related issues of relevance to the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols. These included 37 decisions under the CBD COP; 16 decisions under the

MEAs:
Convention on Biological Diversity
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Biological diversity, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Implementation, Conference Room Paper, Working group, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Capacity building, Traditional Knowledge, European Union, African Group of Negotiators
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

MOP 30 adopted 21 decisions on: issues important to the January 2019 entry into force of the Kigali Amendment on Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), including data reporting issues, including timeline and revised reporting forms, ways to report mixtures and blends, and setting

Keywords:
Amendment, Amendment, Hydrofluorocarbons, Open-ended Working Group, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Ozone Secretariat, Conference Room Paper, Ozone-depleting substance, European Union, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons, African Group of Negotiators
Financial rules
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2010

Financial Rules for the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartegena Protocol

Per Art 14 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supp. Protocol, adopted at 5th COP/MOP of the Cartagena Protocol, the COP/MOP to Cartagena serves as MOP to the Supp. Protocol. Thus, the financial rules of the Convention on Biological Diversity apply (Art 29(5) Cartagena).
MEAs:
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
Convention on Biological Diversity
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Financial rules, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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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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Rules of procedure

Rules of Procedure for the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol

The COP/MOP to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety serves as the MOP to this Protocol ( Article 14). The rules of procedure of the COP to the CBD (linked above) therefore apply (as per Article 29(5) Cartagena Protocol).
MEAs:
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Topics:
Biological diversity
Keywords:
Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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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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