This section provides links to a range of papers on ways in which the reporting burden to MEAs can be reduced through streamlined national reporting. Reports relating to co-ordinated information management are also found below. For papers relating to MEA cooperation please see the page Synergies among MEAs - Key Papers.

• Reducing the burden of national reporting to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs): Options to harmonise reporting for the biodiversity cluster(pdf, 832Kb)

• An overview of national level barriers facing efficient reporting towards the biodiversity related multilateral environmental agreements(pdf, 334Kb)

• Preconditions for harmonization of reporting to biodiversity-related agreements (pdf, 109Kb)

• An Action Plan for Harmonization of Reporting to Biodiversity-related Conventions in the ASEAN Region(pdf, 103Kb)

• UNEP Knowledge Management meeting - Workshop on harmonization of reporting.(pdf, 176Kb)

• Options for harmonizing national reporting to biodiversity-related agreements.(pdf, 37Kb)

• A review of the national reporting systems of the five global biodiversity-related conventions.(pdf, 291Kb)

• Country Experiences with National Reporting to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.(pdf, 560Kb)

• Report on a meeting of national focal points on improving future national reporting to the Commission on Sustainable Development.(pdf, 111Kb)

• UNEP support for the harmonization of national reporting and information management for biodiversity-related treaties(pdf, 77Kb)

• UNEP activities to harmonize national reporting and information management for biodiversity-related conventions(pdf, 49Kb)

• Development of common tools and an information infrastructure for the shared European environment information system(pdf, 562Kb)

• The EU reporting obligations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the monitoring mechanism.(Link)

• Guidelines of the EC reporting obligations under the Barcelona Convention and its protocols in force (Link)

• EEA support to the European Community in reporting obligations within the framework of international environmental conventions(Link)

• Contribution to the Reporting Obligations Database: Preliminary Inventory and Nature Conservation Instruments Obligations and Questions Volume I. (pdf, 84Kb)
• Contribution to the Reporting Obligations Database: Preliminary Inventory and Nature Conservation Instruments Obligations and Questions Volume II. (pdf, 425Kb)

• Harmonizing the information management infrastructure for biodiversity-related treaties.(pdf, 125Kb)

• Feasibility Study for a Harmonised Information Management Infrastructure for Biodiversity-related Treaties.(pdf, 204Kb)