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

Sujets

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

MEAs

  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • CBD
  • Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
  • Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
  • Protocole de Montréal

Mots-clés

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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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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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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
Virtual MEA negotiations presentation.pdfView
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

Combined 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (Part II) and 33rd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

Delegates discussed closing gaps in monitoring of ozone depleting substances as well as low global-warming potential and energy efficient technologies. They adopted 18 decisions, including on compliance and reporting, to ensure the Convention and the Protocol protect the ozone layer

MEAs:
Protocole de Montréal
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
Open-ended Working Group, Ozone-depleting substance, Meetings, Climate change, Compliance, Trust fund, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, European Union, Contribution, Hydrofluorocarbons, African Group of Negotiators, Capacity building
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2020

12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (Part I) and 32nd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

As the meeting closed, delegates agreed that the meeting sent an important signal that despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the goals of the Montreal Protocol are well on track and, while virtual meetings are difficult, they showed that

MEAs:
Protocole de Montréal
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
Meetings, Open-ended Working Group, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Contribution, Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Amendment, Ozone-depleting substance, European Union, Compliance, Trust fund, United Nations Environment Programme
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

2018 UN Biodiversity Conference

The Conference adopted a number of decisions on a series of strategic, administrative, financial, and ecosystem-related issues of relevance to the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols. These included 37 decisions under the CBD COP; 16 decisions under the

MEAs:
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Biological diversity, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Implementation, Conference Room Paper, Working group, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Capacity building, Traditional Knowledge, European Union, African Group of Negotiators
Case studies
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2016

The Minamata Convention COP 1

Negotiation simulation exercise undertaken during the University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2016.
MEAs:
Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
Compliance, United Nations Environment Programme, Compliance Committee, Implementation
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Financial rules
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2010

Financial Rules for the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartegena Protocol

Per Art 14 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supp. Protocol, adopted at 5th COP/MOP of the Cartagena Protocol, the COP/MOP to Cartagena serves as MOP to the Supp. Protocol. Thus, the financial rules of the Convention on Biological Diversity apply (Art 29(5) Cartagena).
MEAs:
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
Protocole de Cartagena,
Convention sur la diversité biologique
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Diversité biologique
Mots-clés:
Financial rules, Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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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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