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
  • Manual
  • Video
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Produits chimiques et déchets
  • Diversité biologique

MEAs

  • CBD
  • CITES
  • CMS
  • Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
  • UNEA

Mots-clés

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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:
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
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).

Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
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:
Assemblée des Nations Unies pour l’environnement,
Convention sur la conservation des espèces migratrices,
Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
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:
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
manual cover
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

18th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP18)

COP18 highlighted the increasing pressures on CITES as an instrument to counter the rising scale of biodiversity loss, as parties struggled to address stresses other than trade on wildlife populations, including habitat loss, disease outbreaks, and human-wildlife conflict. These are

MEAs:
Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Resolution, Sustainable use, European Union, Habitat, Amendment, Amendment, Indigenous peoples, Ecosystem services, Listing, Secret ballot, Enforcement, Ecosystem, Working group, Standing Committee, Open-ended Working Group
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:
Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
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
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2016

17th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (COP17)

Delegates considered 90 agenda items and 62 species-listing proposals submitted by 64 countries. Some of the resolutions and decisions adopted concern: actions to combat wildlife trafficking; demand reduction strategies to combat illegal trade in CITES-listed species; provisions on international trade

MEAs:
Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
European Union, Resolution, Enforcement, Secret ballot, Standing Committee, Working group, Sustainable use, Amendment, Amendment, Ecosystem services, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Meetings, Capacity building, Memorandum of Understanding, Listing, Regional Fisheries Management Organization, International Tropical Timber Council, Non-governmental organizations