Navigating COP Negotiations: A Guide for Parliamentarians on Participation and the Oversight of Multilateral Environmental Agreement Commitments

RESOURCES

Guiding Documents for Understanding and Participating in Negotiations

• Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2025
• COP for Newbies: First Time at the UNFCCC COP, YOUNGO
• Executive Summary: Parliaments and the Paris Agreement, ParlAmericas, 2021
• On Behalf of My Delegation: A Survival Guide for New and Lonely Climate Change Negotiators, IISD Earth Negotiation Bulletin
• Parliamentary Engagement in NDCs 3.0, GLOBE Legislators, 2025
• Primer on the United Nations Climate Change Regime, ParlAmericas, 2018

Sources of News and Updates on Negotiations

• Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992
• COP30 Official Website, Government of Brazil
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin, IISD
• Escazú Agreement, ECLAC, 2018
• The Road to Belém, UNFCCC
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994