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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

UN Climate Change Conference - United Arab Emirates Nov/Dec 2023

Parties adopted a decision operationalizing the new loss and damage fund and a number of parties announced pledges for its initial capitalization. But negotiations were difficult on the other central outcomes: the first Global Stocktake, the Global Goal on Adaptation

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Adaptation, Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Capacity building, Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism, Small Island Developing States, Greenhouse gases, Least Developed Countries, Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Alliance of Small Island States, Carbon Market
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference - November 2022

For the first time, countries agreed to recognize the need for finance to respond to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, and quickly established a fund and the necessary funding arrangements, with the details to

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation Fund, Adaptation, Greenhouse gases, Clean Development Mechanism, Implementation, Indigenous peoples, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Capacity building
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

34th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP34)

Despite phasing out 98% of ozone depleting substances worldwide relative to a 1990 baseline and making major inroads in avoiding catastrophic climate change, parties grappled with recent scientific findings, whether and how to build on the Protocol’s success to tackle

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Open-ended Working Group, Ozone-depleting substance, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Hydrofluorocarbons, Climate change, Ozone Secretariat, Amendment, Amendment, Baseline, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Conference Room Paper
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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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

Glasgow Climate Change Conference

Despite divisive negotiations at COP 26, parties managed to finalize the Paris Agreement Rulebook and adopt other substantive outcomes. During the closing plenaries, parties reflected that the overall package was not perfect, and many stressed that they were adopting the

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
European Union, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Climate change, Adaptation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation Fund, Capacity building, Indigenous peoples, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Least Developed Countries, Alliance of Small Island States, Greenhouse gases
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference - December 2019

Disconnects between the demands of people, science, and what the process could deliver—and between countries that want to look to the future and those focused on the past—ultimately undermined the ability for the Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference to deliver, despite

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, African Group of Negotiators, Adaptation, Adaptation Fund, Greenhouse gases, Indigenous peoples, Alliance of Small Island States, Global Environment Facility, Least Developed Countries, Capacity building
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

Katowice Climate Change Conference - December 2018

Parties adopted the Katowice Climate Package at COP 24, which finalized nearly all of the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including decisions to facilitate common interpretation and implementation of the Paris Agreement on the mitigation section of NDCs, adaptation communications, transparency

MEAs:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation, Mitigation, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary body, Capacity building, Least Developed Countries
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