Reporting negotiations

Description

Reporting negotiations involves systematically documenting and communicating the progress, outcomes, and key points of negotiation processes to relevant stakeholders. This strategy ensures transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making, while reducing misunderstandings and misinterpretations. By providing accurate records, it helps resolve disputes, track commitments, and maintain trust among parties. Effective reporting of negotiations remedies issues of miscommunication, lack of clarity, and potential conflicts arising from differing interpretations of negotiation proceedings.

Implementation

The International Institute for Sustainable Development provides a reporting service for environment and development negotiations called Earth Negotiations Bulletin. It is available in two formats: a hard-copy version by mail and an electronic edition that is available "on-line" and free of charge. Negotiation sessions covered in 1994/95, usually on a daily basis, included the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, The Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Conference; The World Summit for Social Development, The UN Conference on Human Settlements, The Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, the Convention on Biodiversity, Convention on Climate Change and Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought, and the various international forest policy initiatives.