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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Tipo de recurso

  • Case studies
  • Manual
  • Video
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Temas

  • gobernanza medioambiental
  • Productos químicos y desechos
  • Cambio climático y atmósfera
  • Biodiversidad

MEAs

  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • CITES
  • CMS
  • Convenio de Barcelona
  • Convenio de Basilea
  • Convenio de Estocolmo
  • Convenio de Minamata
  • Convenio de Rotterdam
  • Protocolo de Montreal
  • UNEA

Palabras clave

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

5th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury

Parties took crucial steps toward eliminating mercury pollution, including by adopting decisions on: new dates to phase out mercury-added products including cosmetics, strengthened ties with Indigenous Peoples, the Convention’s first effectiveness evaluation, and a threshold for mercury waste, which will

MEAs:
Convenio de Minamata
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental,
Productos químicos y desechos
Palabras clave:
Wastes, Indigenous peoples, Capacity building, European Union, African Group of Negotiators, Global Environment Facility, Best available technique, Global Biodiversity Forum, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Trust fund, Environmentally Sound Management, Technology Transfer, Financial rules, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Mutually Agreed Terms
Video
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2023

Video example of election of Bureau members by secret ballot at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-2).

Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental
Palabras clave:
Secret ballot, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement
inc-2 bureau
Case studies
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2023

Elections by Secret Ballot

Includes examples of provisions on elections by secret ballot and video example of election by secret ballot at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution (INC-2).
MEAs:
United Nations Environment Assembly,
Convención sobre la conservación de las especies migratorias,
Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora Silvestres
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental
Palabras clave:
Secret ballot, Voting, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement
Elections by Secret Ballot Case-Study.pdfVideo of election of Bureau members by secret ballot at INC-2 in Paris
plenary image
Manual
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2022

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

MEAs:
Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica
Temas:
Biodiversidad
Palabras clave:
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
manual cover
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-4)

Parties adopted two essential decisions: the 2022 programme of work and budget, and setting 21-25 March 2022 as the dates for COP-4.2 in person in Bali, Indonesia.

MEAs:
Convenio de Minamata
Temas:
Productos químicos y desechos
Palabras clave:
Global Environment Facility, Meetings, Conference Room Paper, United Nations Environment Programme, Capacity building, European Union, Wastes, Scale of assessment, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Financial rules, Trust fund, La Francophonie, Memorandum of Understanding, Open-ended Working Group
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:
Protocolo de Montreal
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental,
Cambio climático y atmósfera
Palabras clave:
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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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:
Convenio de Rotterdam,
Convenio de Estocolmo,
Convenio de Basilea
Temas:
Productos químicos y desechos
Palabras clave:
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
Manual
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2021

IPBES Manual for National Focal Points

MEAs:
Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica
Temas:
Biodiversidad
Palabras clave:
Ecosystem services, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Biological diversity, Subsidiary body, Contribution, Trust fund
2021_IPBES_NFP_Guide.pdfView
ipbes manual cover
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:
Protocolo de Montreal
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental,
Cambio climático y atmósfera
Palabras clave:
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