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
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

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

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • Global Plastics Treaty
  • Kyiv Protocol

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

Rules of procedure of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making Procedures and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

MEAs:
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, Public participation
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