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

  • Rules of procedure
  • Case studies
  • E-learning course
  • Presentation
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Temas

  • gobernanza medioambiental
  • Productos químicos y desechos
  • Cambio climático y atmósfera
  • Tierra y Agricultura

MEAs

  • Convenio de Basilea
  • Convenio de Estocolmo
  • Convenio de Minamata
  • Convenio de Rotterdam
  • Protocolo de Montreal
  • UNCCD

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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.
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental
Palabras clave:
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).
Temas:
gobernanza medioambiental
Palabras clave:
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:
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
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
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:
Convenio de Minamata
Temas:
Productos químicos y desechos
Palabras clave:
Compliance, United Nations Environment Programme, Compliance Committee, Implementation
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Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

The Rules of Procedure were adopted at COP 1 (see below 1/COP.1). Subsequently rules 22, 31 and 47 were amended at COP 2 (see below 20/COP.2 and 21/COP.2) but the final text of rule 47 remains unresolved (see below 24/COP.12).
MEAs:
Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificación
Temas:
Tierra y Agricultura
Palabras clave:
Desertification
1/COP.1 Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties20/COP.2 Consideration of rules 22 and 31 of the rules of procedure21/COP.2 Consideration of rule 47 of the rules of procedure24/COP.12 Rule 47 of the rules of procedureFurther Treaty Information
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