Multilateral Environmental Agreement: Negotiators Handbook - Second Edition

This handbook provides a practical introduction to negotiating and working with multilateral environmental agreements for new and experienced negotiators, responding to limited expertise and resources. It offers broad coverage of subject matter, presenting technical information in an accessible format, with a new glossary. The text explains key elements of treaties, rules of procedure, financial rules, institutional and negotiation structures, roles, drafting issues, documents and strategic issues. It reviews governance principles, international cooperation, funding and trends in negotiations, and concludes with synthesis sections describing negotiation phases, typical days in United Nations meetings and selected agreement innovations and implementation challenges and tools.