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

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

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Climat et atmosphère
  • Diversité biologique

MEAs

  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
  • UNFCCC

Mots-clés

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Video
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2023

Video example of point of order being raised by the Russian Federation in plenary at 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).

Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Point of order, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, International Agreement
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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Manual
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2022

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

MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
Diversité biologique
Mots-clés:
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
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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.
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
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

Rules of Procedure and Consensus in MEA Negotiations: UNEP Training Slides

Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Consensus, Voting, United Nations Environment Programme, Point of order, Conference Room Paper
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

2018 UN Biodiversity Conference

The Conference adopted a number of decisions on a series of strategic, administrative, financial, and ecosystem-related issues of relevance to the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols. These included 37 decisions under the CBD COP; 16 decisions under the

MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Biological diversity, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Implementation, Conference Room Paper, Working group, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Capacity building, Traditional Knowledge, European Union, African Group of Negotiators
Case studies
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2012

Points of Order

PDF example of the Russian Federation raising a point of order in 2012 and video examples of Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation raising a point of order concerning the adoption of the Rules of Procedure at INC-2 in 2023.
MEAs:
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
Point of order, Voting, Consensus, Formal objection
Points of Order - The Russian Federation case studyVideo example of point of order from Saudi Arabia at INC-2 2023Video example of point of order from the Russian Federation at INC-2 2023
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Financial rules
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2010

Financial Rules for the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartegena Protocol

Per Art 14 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supp. Protocol, adopted at 5th COP/MOP of the Cartagena Protocol, the COP/MOP to Cartagena serves as MOP to the Supp. Protocol. Thus, the financial rules of the Convention on Biological Diversity apply (Art 29(5) Cartagena).
MEAs:
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
Protocole de Cartagena,
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Diversité biologique
Mots-clés:
Financial rules, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Rules of procedure

Rules of procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

The rules of procedure of the COP to the CBD (linked above) apply, except as may be otherwise decided by the COP serving as the MOP to the Protocol ( Cartagena Protocol Article 29(5)).
MEAs:
Protocole de Cartagena
Sujets:
Diversité biologique
Mots-clés:
Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Biosafety
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