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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

5th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020

At the end of a long week of negotiations, delegates adopted the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste, along with 12 resolutions and a High-level Declaration to ensure chemicals are managed

MEAs:
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Resolution, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Capacity building, Implementation, Open-ended Working Group
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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Presentation
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2021

UNEP Training Presentation on Virtual Negotiations

Virtual MEA negotiations training provided by UNEP at the 17th Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (University of Eastern Finland – UNEP).
Topics:
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Meetings, United Nations Environment Programme, Voting, Subsidiary body, Consensus, Standing Committee, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations General Assembly, Compliance
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

Combined 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (Part II) and 33rd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

Delegates discussed closing gaps in monitoring of ozone depleting substances as well as low global-warming potential and energy efficient technologies. They adopted 18 decisions, including on compliance and reporting, to ensure the Convention and the Protocol protect the ozone layer

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Open-ended Working Group, Ozone-depleting substance, Meetings, Climate change, Compliance, Trust fund, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, European Union, Contribution, Hydrofluorocarbons, African Group of Negotiators, Capacity building
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2020

12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (Part I) and 32nd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

As the meeting closed, delegates agreed that the meeting sent an important signal that despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the goals of the Montreal Protocol are well on track and, while virtual meetings are difficult, they showed that

MEAs:
Montreal Protocol
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Climate and Atmosphere
Keywords:
Meetings, Open-ended Working Group, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Contribution, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Amendment, Ozone-depleting substance, European Union, Compliance, Trust fund, United Nations Environment Programme
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)

The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury focused on achieving the smooth functioning of an international treaty body as well as substantive and technical issues aimed at fostering action to address

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
African Group of Negotiators, Meetings, Wastes, Subsidiary body, European Union, Capacity building, United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, Compliance Committee, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Technology Transfer, World Health Organization, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Global Environment Facility, Central and Eastern Europe, Memorandum of Understanding, Group of Western European and Other States, Small Island Developing States, Open-ended Working Group, Financial rules
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

1st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Global Environment Facility, Meetings, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Financial rules, Capacity building, Memorandum of Understanding, European Union, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Non-Party, African Group of Negotiators, Subsidiary body, United Nations Environment Programme, Basel Convention Regional Centres, Open-ended Working Group, Best available technique, Compliance Committee, Central and Eastern Europe, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Conference Room Paper
Case studies
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2016

The Minamata Convention COP 1

Negotiation simulation exercise undertaken during the University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2016.
MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Compliance, United Nations Environment Programme, Compliance Committee, Implementation
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Financial rules
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2012

Financial Rules for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management - Resolution III/I: Financial and technical resources for implementation of the Strategic Approach

Resolution III/I, adopted at the third session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM3). The new version of SAICM texts, which includes the resolutions adopted by ICCM at its first, second and third sessions, exists in English only.
MEAs:
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste,
Environmental Governance
Keywords:
Resolution, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Financial rules
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