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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Type de ressource

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

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Produits chimiques et déchets
  • Climat et atmosphère
  • Diversité biologique
  • Eaux marines et eau douce

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • CBD
  • Convention de Bâle
  • Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
  • Convention de Rotterdam
  • Convention de Stockholm
  • Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources
  • LRTAP
  • Protocole de Montréal
  • UNFCCC

Mots-clés

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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:
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
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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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:
Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
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
Presentation
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2022

CARICOM Key Principles of Negotiation Training Slides

Training presentation on key principles of MEA negotiation provided by CARICOM to prepare regional negotiators for CBD COP 15.
MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Binding, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Coalitions, Working group, Resolution, Point of order, African Group of Negotiators, Conference Room Paper, Least Developed Countries, Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, Consensus
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2022

4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (2nd Part)

Parties adopted 12 decisions, including on artisanal and small-scale mining, phasing out products containing mercury, waste containing mercury, and the effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, that have set the course of implementation of the Minamata Convention in the years to

MEAs:
Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
Wastes, Implementation, Meetings, European Union, Capacity building, Indigenous peoples, United Nations Environment Programme, Financial rules, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Subsidiary body, African Group of Negotiators
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:
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
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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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:
Protocole de Montréal
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
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

9th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention

The meeting successfully highlighted the importance of transboundary water cooperation, welcomed Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Togo as new Parties, and saw the signing of the Ministerial Declaration on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin by ministers from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal.

Sujets:
Eaux marines et eau douce
Mots-clés:
Economic Commission for Europe, Meetings, Accession, European Union, Climate change, Implementation, Capacity building, International Financial Institution, Subsidiary body, Non-Party, European Commission, Sustainable development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Working group
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:
Convention de Rotterdam,
Convention de Stockholm,
Convention de Bâle
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
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

1st Part of the 26th Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA)

The Council’s substantive discussions focused on the draft regulations for deep seabed mining, which will need to ensure environmental protection while balancing stakeholders’ interests. Delegates engaged in discussions over new proposals on regional environmental management plans (REMPs) and the financial

Mots-clés:
International Seabed Authority, Working group, African Group of Negotiators, Environmental Impact Assessment, Open-ended Working Group