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
  • E-learning course
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Climat et atmosphère
  • Diversité biologique
  • Eaux marines et eau douce
  • Terre et agriculture

MEAs

  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • UNCCD
  • UNCLOS
  • 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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2022

15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 15)

Following two weeks of high-level discussions and negotiations, delegates adopted 38 decisions to improve drought resilience, reduce land degradation, invest in land restoration efforts, and improve synergies with the climate change and biodiversity conventions.

MEAs:
Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Terre et agriculture
Mots-clés:
Land degradation, Climate change, Implementation, Biological diversity, Committee on Science and Technology, Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Capacity building, Rio Conventions, Indigenous peoples, Women Major Group
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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Case studies
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2019

Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

Negotiation simulation exercise undertaken during the University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2019.
MEAs:
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Sujets:
Eaux marines et eau douce
Mots-clés:
Biological diversity, Climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable development, United Nations Environment Programme, International Agreement, Sustainable use, Indigenous peoples, United Nations General Assembly, Clearing House Mechanism, Ecosystem services, Greenhouse gases, Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Ecosystem, Open-ended Working Group, Land degradation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Mitigation, Our Common Future
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

Katowice Climate Change Conference - December 2018

Parties adopted the Katowice Climate Package at COP 24, which finalized nearly all of the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including decisions to facilitate common interpretation and implementation of the Paris Agreement on the mitigation section of NDCs, adaptation communications, transparency

MEAs:
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation, Mitigation, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary body, Capacity building, Least Developed Countries
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2017

13th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 13)

Both the CST and the CRIC completed their work ahead of schedule, while several decisions at the heart of the negotiations, including adoption of the 2018-2030 Strategic Framework, alignment of the Convention with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and

MEAs:
Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Terre et agriculture
Mots-clés:
Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Land degradation, Committee on Science and Technology, Implementation, Working group, United Nations Global Compact, Capacity building, Women Major Group, Rio Conventions
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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Financial rules
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1996

Financial Rules for the Administration of the Trust Fund for the Convention on Biological Diversity (ANNEX I TO DECISION I/6, AS AMENDED BY DECISION III/1)

Applicable mutatis mutandis to the Trust Funds of the Biosafety Protocol (BG), the Special Voluntary Trust Fund under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (BH) and for Facilitating Participation of Developing Country Parties to Cartagena Protocol Process (BI).
MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique,
Protocole de Cartagena
Sujets:
Diversité biologique
Mots-clés:
Trust fund, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Financial rules, Biosafety
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