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
  • Financial rules

Sujets

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

MEAs

  • CBD
  • Convention de Stockholm
  • Kyiv Protocol
  • LRTAP
  • Protocole de Montréal
  • UNFCCC

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Case studies
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2023

Decision-Making by Consensus

These case-studies highlight how decision-making by consensus is not always straightforward, with written examples from the UNFCCC and United Nations Conference on Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and a video example from the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) on plastic pollution.
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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Financial rules
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2021

Financial Rules for the Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention - Decision IV/4 Financial arrangements under the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

Adopted at the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties, held in Geneva on 22 October 2021. Decisions issued in addendum to report of fourth session (ECE/MP.PRTR/2021/6/Add.1).
MEAs:
Protocole sur les RRTP
Sujets:
Climat et atmosphère,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, Financial rules
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Case studies
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2012

Points of Order

Video examples of Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation and Colombia raising points of order in 2023 and 2025 and written example of the Russian Federation raising a point of order in 2012.
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 2023Video example of point of order from Colombia at COP 30 2025
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Case studies
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2007

Making Adjustments under the Montreal Protocol and LRTAP

MEAs:
Protocole de Montréal,
Convention sur la pollution atmosphérique transfrontière à longue distance
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
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, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
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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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