CEMUNE is providing the COP29 Leadership Team with Negotiation Support on the Road to Baku

CEMUNE: Building Bridges to a Better World


CEMUNE: the trusted experts helping policymakers secure global agreements that will protect our beautiful planet and shape a safer, healthier and more prosperous future for all.

CEMUNE: Building Bridges to a Better World.

Our Vision

 

We envision a future where collective action has set a new course for humanity: limiting climate change, protecting biodiversity, revitalizing economies, and safeguarding those most at risk. It’s about more than reaching ambitious global agreements — it’s about respecting the delicate balance that sustains all life, so people, nature, and our beautiful planet can thrive together…today and for generations to come.

CEMUNE's Mission

 

Solving the world’s biggest sustainability challenges demands the world’s best negotiators: those equipped with the professionalism and knowledge required to achieve success in multilateral processes. 

 

That’s why CEMUNE supports policymakers with the knowledge, skills and advice they need to reach transformative global sustainability agreements. With more than a decade of neutral, non-aligned experience, we’re the “honest brokers” leaders look to when they need support and advice they can trust. 

 

Yet, we know that these international agreements are only as good as their implementation back home. 

 

That’s why CEMUNE created Business4Climate in 2024 – a groundbreaking initiative that helps business leaders and other stakeholders translate complex international agreements and regulations into ground-level actions.

 

Collaboration is the beating heart of CEMUNE’s work. We believe it’s more than just an effective strategy to address the world's pressing environmental challenges; it’s our only option.

 

7 dimensions

Our blueprint for effective
negotiation management

Our Expertise

Our central knowledge repository on negotiation management based on practical experience and rigorous academic research.

 

Explore our research based hub filled with valuable resources, data library, news, podcasts, interviews and everything that's multilateral negotiations.

Some of our partners

UNFCCC
Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
UN Environment
GIZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Inter-American Development Bank
Freuds
Bertelsmann
Ernst & Young

What Global Leaders Are Saying About CEMUNE

Endorsement by Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Like the proverb that says, prevention is better than cure! CEMUNE made a great response by organizing the informal workshop previous to the COP26 in Glasgow. I felt personally the application of s...

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Conservation International Senior Fellow
Endorsement by Antoine Michon

I and my team benefited from Kai Monheim's lessons learned from previous presidencies (...) it has in no small ways contributed to the success of paris

Antoine Michon
Former Head of Environment and Climate Division, French Foreign Ministry
Endorsement by Yvo de Boer

There is definitely an urgent need to learn more systematically from past negotiation processes to make them more successful in the future.

Yvo de Boer
Former head of the UNFCCC
Endorsement by Patricia Espinosa

This is a great initiative, which I fully support. In multilateral negotiations, the quality of the process is as important as the substance in order to reach significant agreements.

Patricia Espinosa
Former acting UNFCCC Executive Secretary, President COP16
Endorsement by Pascal Lamy

This centre represents a great opportunity to provide negotiation chairs with facilitation best practices, and thereby accelerate the crafting of multilateral agreements on trade and other global i...

Pascal Lamy
Former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Endorsement by Christiana Figueres

Negotiations cannot be improvised if they are to be successful. An understanding of the rules and dynamics inherent in any multilateral negotiation are as important as knowledge of the substance. A...

Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC

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