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

  • Case studies
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Topics

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

MEAs

  • Basel Convention
  • BBNJ Agreement
  • ITPGRFA
  • Rotterdam Convention
  • Stockholm Convention

Keywords

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

2023 Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Beyond addressing resource mobilization and the illegal traffic of hazardous chemicals and wastes, delegates tried to effectiveness challenges under the Rotterdam Convention, listed new persistent organic pollutants and adopted a compliance mechanism under the Stockholm Convention, and tackled guidelines on

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
Basel Convention
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Hazardous wastes, Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Listing
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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

2021 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Parties and stakeholders to the three global hazardous chemicals and wastes conventions convened online to deal with urgent operational and substantive work including election of officers, the programmes of work and budgets for all three conventions, and a decision regarding

MEAs:
Rotterdam Convention,
Stockholm Convention,
Basel Convention
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Global Environment Facility, Wastes, Chemical Review Committee, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Compliance Committee, European Union, Financial rules, Hazardous wastes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Conference Room Paper, Open-ended Working Group, Meetings, Scale of assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, National Implementation Plan, Persistant Organic Pollutant Review Committee, Small Island Developing States, Trust fund
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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

7th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA GB 7)

MEAs:
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Topics:
Biological diversity,
Environmental Governance,
Land and Agriculture
Keywords:
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Sustainable use, Resolution, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Subsidiary body, Multi-Year Programme of Work, Working group, International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, Voluntary Contribution, Implementation, Compliance Committee, Financial rules, In situ, Intellectual property rights, World Intellectual Property Organization
Case studies
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2007

Stockholm Convention on POPs: Adding a substantive element to a draft MEA

MEAs:
Stockholm Convention
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Persistent Organic Pollutants, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Alliance of Small Island States, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, Country with Economy in Transition, Development Assistance Committee, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, United Nations General Assembly, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Voluntary Contribution, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Greenhouse gases, Vienna Setting, Subsidiary body
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