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
  • Presentation
  • Financial rules
  • IISD/ENB summary meeting report

Sujets

  • gouvernance environnementale
  • Produits chimiques et déchets
  • Climat et atmosphère
  • Diversité biologique
  • Eaux marines et eau douce

MEAs

  • Convention de Barcelone
  • Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
  • Convention de Stockholm
  • ICRW
  • Kyiv Protocol
  • LRTAP
  • Protocole de Montréal
  • SAICM

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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2023

5th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020

At the end of a long week of negotiations, delegates adopted the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste, along with 12 resolutions and a High-level Declaration to ensure chemicals are managed

MEAs:
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Sujets:
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
Resolution, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Capacity building, Implementation, Open-ended Working 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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Financial rules
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2022

Financial Rules for the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) - FINANCIAL REGULATIONS AND FINANCIAL RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION

MARPOL falls under MEPC, which addresses environmental issues under IMO’s remit, including the control/prevention of ship-source pollution covered by MARPOL. MARPOL's funding therefore comes from IMO and is subject to IMO's Financial Rules and Regulations, correct as of 01/01/2022.
Sujets:
Eaux marines et eau douce,
gouvernance environnementale
Mots-clés:
Financial rules, International Maritime Organization
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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2021

Barcelona Convention COP 22

As well as the landmark decision on controlling sulphur oxide emissions—which will have major health and environmental benefits for Mediterranean communities—COP 22 adopted several significant plans.

MEAs:
Convention de Barcelone
Sujets:
Diversité biologique,
Eaux marines et eau douce,
Climat et atmosphère
Mots-clés:
Compliance Committee, European Union, Implementation, Biological diversity, International Maritime Organization, Ecosystem approach, Climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Habitat, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Amendment, Amendment, Non-governmental organizations, Memorandum of Understanding, Sustainable development, Capacity building, Hazardous wastes, International Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, European Commission
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
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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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IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

Barcelona Convention COP 21 and its Protocols

Delegates to the Barcelona Convention adopted 14 decisions—one on the programme of work and budget for 2020-2021, and 13 thematic decisions, including on governance, an emissions control area for sulphur oxides, and marine pollution from land-based sources.

MEAs:
Convention de Barcelone
Mots-clés:
European Union, Compliance Committee, International Maritime Organization, Capacity building, Biological diversity, Implementation, International Seabed Authority, Economic Commission for Africa, Listing, Habitat, Memorandum of Understanding, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Open-ended Working Group, Sustainable use, Assessed contribution, Climate change, Commission on Sustainable Development, Sustainable development, Trust fund, Voluntary Contribution
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2019

3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)

The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury focused on achieving the smooth functioning of an international treaty body as well as substantive and technical issues aimed at fostering action to address

MEAs:
Convention de Minamata sur le mercure
Sujets:
gouvernance environnementale,
Produits chimiques et déchets
Mots-clés:
African Group of Negotiators, Meetings, Wastes, Subsidiary body, European Union, Capacity building, United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, Compliance Committee, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Technology Transfer, World Health Organization, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Global Environment Facility, Central and Eastern Europe, Memorandum of Understanding, Group of Western European and Other States, Small Island Developing States, Open-ended Working Group, Financial rules
IISD/ENB summary meeting report
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2018

67th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC67)

The presence of aboriginal whale hunters at the meeting provided moving and compelling statements. Adoption of the amendment, which required a three-fourths majority, was viewed by many delegates as an example of the IWC’s ability to find a balance between

MEAs:
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
Mots-clés:
Meetings, Resolution, Amendment, Amendment, European Union, Sustainable use, Working group, Indigenous peoples, Consensus, International Maritime Organization