Negotiator's toolkit

Delegates at UNEA-7 confronted new and emerging issues, linking the environment to technology, health, and the global economy, while also considering how best to deal with ever-growing concerns pertaining to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Delegates worked through 114 agenda items, adopted 353 decisions, and reviewed 50 listing proposals, protecting 77 new species. The Kazakh population of saiga antelope, the South African bontebok, the Guadalupe fur seal, and Parlatore’s podocarp show encouraging population resurgence or

While many participants were not pleased with lack of reference to phasing out fossil fuels and deforestation in the “Mutirão” decision and the decision on the Global Goal on Adaptation, they applauded the new Gender Action Plan and the decision

The Preparatory Commission deliberated on governance issues, operation of the Clearing-House Mechanism, and financial rules, resources, and the financial mechanism to prepare for the imminent entry into force of the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ Agreement).

Many hoped this meeting would lead to the adoption of a new treaty to end plastic pollution but, try as they might, delegates were unable to reach consensus and left Geneva amid uncertainty as to what the next steps might

Parties sought to match the ambition needed to reverse the alarming trends of wetland loss and degradation through increased synergies with other multilateral environmental agreements, institutional strengthening, enhanced implementation tools, partnerships and networks, and adequate financial support.

The three weeks of meetings revealed both how far the International Seabed Authority has come over the past 30 years and how far it must go before it can effectively fulfil its mandate of controlling deep seabed activities for the

Meeting under the theme of “Making visible the invisible,” parties adopted a series of decisions that seek to protect human health and the environment. These decisions, however, were challenged by the complexities of modern supply chains and the economic importance

Preparing for the entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement, delegates addressed the nuts and bolts that will guide its orderly implementation, including rules of procedure, arrangements for the Secretariat, funding, arrangements with the Global Environment Facility and operationalization of