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
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Produits chimiques et déchets
  • Climat et atmosphère
  • Diversité biologique

MEAs

  • CBD
  • Convention de Bâle
  • Convention de Rotterdam
  • Convention de Stockholm
  • UNFCCC

Mots-clés

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

2023 Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)

Beyond addressing resource mobilization and the illegal traffic of hazardous chemicals and wastes, delegates tried to effectiveness challenges under the Rotterdam Convention, listed new persistent organic pollutants and adopted a compliance mechanism under the Stockholm Convention, and tackled guidelines on

MEAs:
Convention de Rotterdam,
Convention de Stockholm,
Convention de Bâle
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
Hazardous wastes, Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Listing
Case studies
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2023

Decision-Making by Consensus

Examples highlighting how decision-making by consensus is not always straightforward, including a video of the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-2) showing the Chair's response to a number of points of order raised on this
MEAs:
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Consensus, Voting, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Formal objection
PDF Case-studyVideo Example
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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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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
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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Case studies
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2007

Stockholm Convention on POPs: Adding a substantive element to a draft MEA

MEAs:
Convention de Stockholm
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
Persistent Organic Pollutants, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Alliance of Small Island States, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, Country with Economy in Transition, Development Assistance Committee, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, United Nations General Assembly, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Voluntary Contribution, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Greenhouse gases, Vienna Setting, Subsidiary body
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