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
  • Diversité biologique
  • Eaux marines et eau douce

MEAs

  • BBNJ Agreement
  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • UNCLOS

Mots-clés

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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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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Delegates delved, for the first time, into textual negotiations on the basis of a “zero draft” containing treaty text developed by Conference President Rena Lee (Singapore). Deliberations were productive but there is still much work to be done with the

MEAs:
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
Eaux marines et eau douce
Mots-clés:
European Union, Sustainable use, African Group of Negotiators, Biological diversity, Caribbean Community and Common Market, Environmental Impact Assessment, Clearing House Mechanism, In situ, Small Island Developing States, Capacity building, International Seabed Authority, Traditional Knowledge
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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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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