The United Nations Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

	Signature	Ratification	Party status
Aarhus Convention	25 Jun 1998	29 Sep 2000	Approval
Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing		28 Nov 2017	Accession
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)	01 Nov 1983	01 Jan 2000	Ratification
Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea (WSSA)			Ratification
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS)	19 Aug 1992	29 Dec 1993	Approval
Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982	29 Jul 1994	16 Nov 2004	Ratification
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction	20 Sep 2023	09 Jun 2025	Approval
Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal		10 Sep 1997	Approval
Amendments to the Text of and Annexes Other than III and VII to the 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals		29 Apr 2016	Acceptance
Basel Convention	22 Mar 1989	06 Feb 1994	Approval
Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation	05 Dec 2000		Signatory
Convention on Biological Diversity	12 Jun 1992	21 Dec 1993	Ratification
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora		26 Jul 1977	Ratification
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution	14 Nov 1979	18 Jun 1982	Ratification
Convention on Migratory Species		01 Nov 1983	Ratification
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses		30 Apr 2012	Accession
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes	18 Mar 1992	28 May 1997	Approval
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents	18 Mar 1992	28 Mar 2001	Approval
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat		02 Sep 1977	Accession
Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol		21 Dec 2017	Acceptance
EMEP Protocol	28 Sep 1984	29 Apr 1986	Ratification
Espoo Convention	26 Feb 1991	14 Mar 1997	Approval
Gothenburg Protocol	01 Dec 1999	11 Jun 2002	Approval
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) - including Annex I/II		27 Nov 1980	Accession
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) - Annex III: Hazardous substances carried in packaged form		27 Nov 1980	Acceptance
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling	02 Dec 1946	23 May 1950	Ratification
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture	06 Jun 2002	31 Mar 2004	Ratification
International Tropical Timber Agreement		18 Nov 2009	Definitive signature
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers	21 May 2003	13 Oct 2008	Ratification
Kyoto Protocol	29 Apr 1998	31 May 2002	Ratification
Minamata Convention on Mercury	10 Oct 2013	18 May 2017	Approval
Montreal Protocol	16 Sep 1987	16 Dec 1988	Ratification
Nagoya Protocol	23 Jun 2011	01 May 2014	Approval
Paris Agreement	22 Apr 2016	01 Nov 2016	Approval
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides	01 Nov 1988	01 Mar 1993	Acceptance
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes	19 Nov 1991	21 May 1996	Acceptance
Protocol of 1997 to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78) to include Annex VI on the prevention of air pollution from ships		18 Dec 2002	Ratification
Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	14 Jun 1994	25 Aug 1997	Approval
Protocol on Heavy Metals	24 Jun 1998	12 Jul 2001	Approval
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)	24 Jun 1998	06 Jul 2001	Approval
Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment	21 May 2003	04 Jun 2012	Approval
Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	09 Jul 1985	29 Apr 1986	Ratification
Protocol on Water and Health	17 Jun 1999		Signatory
Rotterdam Convention	11 Sep 1998	15 Jan 2004	Ratification
Stockholm Convention	23 May 2001	17 Dec 2003	Ratification
The Beijing Amendment (1999)		24 Sep 2003	Acceptance
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	24 May 2000	27 Aug 2002	Ratification
The Copenhagen Amendment (1992)		21 Dec 1993	Acceptance
The Kigali Amendment (2016)		06 Dec 2018	Approval
The London Amendment (1990)		20 Dec 1991	Acceptance
The London Fisheries Convention	09 Mar 1964	09 Oct 1964
The Montreal Amendment (1997)		24 Sep 2003	Acceptance
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	07 Mar 2011	25 Feb 2015	Approval
UN Fish Stocks Agreement	27 Jun 1996	19 Dec 2003	Ratification
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	10 Dec 1982	16 Nov 2004	Ratification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification	15 Oct 1994	22 Dec 1995	Ratification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	09 Jun 1992	21 Dec 1993	Ratification
Vienna Convention	22 Mar 1985	29 Sep 1988	Ratification