Procedures for addressing conflicts of interest in expert groups and science-policy bodies
Procedure for avoiding or managing conflicts of interest in expert groups under the CBD and background document on procedures for addressing potential conflicts of interest in science-policy interfaces.
MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Subsidiary body, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Global Environment Outlook
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
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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
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
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
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
UNEP Training Presentation on Virtual Negotiations
Virtual MEA negotiations training provided by UNEP at the 17th Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (University of Eastern Finland – UNEP).
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Meetings, United Nations Environment Programme, Voting, Subsidiary body, Consensus, Standing Committee, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, United Nations General Assembly, Compliance
One specific form of regional organization that has arisen is the Regional Economic Integration Organization (REIO). This course will explore the unique functions of the REIO as a Party to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and participant in environmental governance, including