The United Nations Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

	Signature	Ratification	Party status
Aarhus Convention	25 Jun 1998	08 Jul 2002	Approval
Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing	19 Nov 2010	07 Nov 2016	Approval
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)	01 Jul 1990	01 Dec 2003	Ratification
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS)		03 Oct 2005	Accession
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	11 Apr 1996	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	05 Feb 2025	Ratification
Amendment to Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change		19 Aug 2009	Acceptance
Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal		18 Nov 2003	Approval
Amendments to the Text of and Annexes Other than III and VII to the 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals		13 Sep 2021	Acceptance
Barcelona Convention	16 Feb 1976	11 Mar 1978	Approval
Basel Convention	22 Mar 1989	07 Jan 1991	Approval
Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation	08 Dec 2000		Signatory
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources	16 Sep 1980	16 Sep 1982	Ratification
Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region		13 Nov 1985	Ratification
Convention on Biological Diversity	13 Jun 1992	01 Jul 1994	Ratification
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora		11 May 1978	Approval
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution	13 Nov 1979	03 Nov 1981	Approval
Convention on Migratory Species		01 Jul 1990	Ratification
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses		24 Feb 2011	Accession
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes	18 Mar 1992	30 Jun 1998	Approval
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents	18 Mar 1992	03 Oct 2003	Approval
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat	01 Dec 1986	01 Dec 1986	Ratification
Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol		30 Nov 2017	Acceptance
EMEP Protocol	22 Feb 1985	30 Oct 1987	Approval
Espoo Convention	26 Feb 1991	15 Jun 2001	Approval
Gothenburg Protocol	01 Dec 1999	10 Apr 2007	Approval
Hazardous Wastes Protocol
International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas		07 Nov 1968	Adherence
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) - including Annex I/II		25 Sep 1981	Approval
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		25 Sep 1981	Acceptance
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling	02 Dec 1946	03 Dec 1948	Ratification
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture	06 Jun 2002	11 Jul 2005	Ratification
International Tropical Timber Agreement	07 Nov 2008	07 Apr 2010	Approval
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers	21 May 2003	10 Jul 2009	Approval
Kyoto Protocol	29 Apr 1998	31 May 2002	Approval
Land-Based Sources Protocol	17 May 1980	13 Jul 1982	Approval
Minamata Convention on Mercury	10 Oct 2013	15 Jun 2017	Ratification
Montreal Protocol	16 Sep 1987	28 Dec 1988	Approval
Nagoya Protocol	20 Sep 2011	31 Aug 2016	Ratification
Nairobi Convention for the Protection, Management and development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African region		18 Aug 1989	Ratification
Offshore Protocol
Paris Agreement	22 Apr 2016	05 Oct 2016	Ratification
Prevention and Emergency Protocol	16 Feb 1976	11 Mar 1978	Approval
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides	01 Nov 1988	20 Jul 1989	Approval
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes	19 Nov 1991	12 Jun 1997	Approval
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		15 Jul 2005	Accession
Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	14 Jun 1994	12 Jun 1997	Approval
Protocol on Heavy Metals	24 Jun 1998	26 Jul 2002	Approval
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)	24 Jun 1998	25 Jul 2003	Approval
Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment	21 May 2003	16 Jan 2024	Approval
Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	09 Jul 1985	13 Mar 1986	Approval
Protocol on Water and Health	17 Jun 1999	06 May 2005	Approval
Rotterdam Convention	11 Sep 1998	17 Feb 2004	Approval
Specially Protected Areas and Biodiversity Protocol	10 Jun 1995	16 Apr 2001	Approval
Stockholm Convention	23 May 2001	17 Feb 2004	Approval
The Beijing Amendment (1999)		25 Jul 2003	Approval
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	24 May 2000	07 Apr 2003	Approval
The Copenhagen Amendment (1992)		03 Jan 1996	Approval
The Kigali Amendment (2016)		29 Mar 2018	Approval
The London Amendment (1990)		12 Feb 1992	Approval
The London Fisheries Convention	09 Mar 1964	05 Jul 1965
The Montreal Amendment (1997)		25 Jul 2003	Approval
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	11 May 2011	01 Oct 2019	Ratification
UN Fish Stocks Agreement	04 Dec 1996	19 Dec 2003	Ratification
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	10 Dec 1982	11 Apr 1996	Ratification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification	14 Oct 1994	12 Jun 1997	Ratification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	13 Jun 1992	25 Mar 1994	Ratification
Vienna Convention	22 Mar 1985	04 Dec 1987	Approval