The United Nations Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

	Signature	Ratification	Party status
Aarhus Convention	25 Jun 1998	13 Jun 2001	Ratification
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)	01 Nov 1983	01 Sep 2006	Ratification
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	13 Jan 1995	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	22 Sep 2023		Signatory
Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal		03 Mar 2009	Ratification
Barcelona Convention	16 Feb 1976	03 Feb 1979	Ratification
Basel Convention	22 Mar 1989	07 Feb 1994	Ratification
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources		29 Mar 1989	Accession
Convention on Biological Diversity	05 Jun 1992	15 Apr 1994	Ratification
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora		02 Oct 1979	Ratification
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution	14 Nov 1979	15 Jul 1982	Ratification
Convention on Migratory Species		01 Nov 1983	Ratification
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses		30 Nov 2012	Accession
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes	18 Mar 1992	23 May 1996	Ratification
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents	18 Mar 1992	02 Jul 2002	Ratification
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat	14 Apr 1977	14 Dec 1976	Ratification
Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol		18 Jul 2016	Acceptance
EMEP Protocol	28 Sep 1984	12 Jan 1989	Ratification
Espoo Convention	26 Feb 1991	19 Jan 1995	Ratification
Gothenburg Protocol	01 Dec 1999	24 Dec 2025	Ratification
Hazardous Wastes Protocol	01 Oct 1996		Signatory
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) - including Annex I/II		01 Oct 1982	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		01 Oct 1982	Acceptance
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling		06 Feb 1998	Adherence
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture	06 Jun 2002	18 May 2004	Ratification
International Tropical Timber Agreement	26 Jun 2008	23 Sep 2009	Ratification
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers	21 May 2003	23 Nov 2020	Ratification
Kyoto Protocol	29 Apr 1998	31 May 2002	Ratification
Land-Based Sources Protocol	17 May 1980	04 Jul 1985	Ratification
Minamata Convention on Mercury	10 Oct 2013	05 Jan 2021	Ratification
Montreal Protocol	16 Sep 1987	16 Dec 1988	Ratification
Nagoya Protocol	23 Jun 2011		Signatory
Offshore Protocol	14 Oct 1994		Signatory
Paris Agreement	22 Apr 2016	11 Nov 2016	Ratification
Prevention and Emergency Protocol	16 Feb 1976	03 Feb 1976	Ratification
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides	01 Nov 1988	19 May 1992	Ratification
Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes	19 Nov 1991	30 Jun 1995	Ratification
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		22 May 2006	Accession
Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	14 Jun 1994	14 Sep 1998	Ratification
Protocol on Heavy Metals	24 Jun 1998		Signatory
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)	24 Jun 1998	20 Jun 2006	Ratification
Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment	21 May 2003	18 Jul 2016	Ratification
Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions	09 Jul 1985	05 Feb 1990	Ratification
Protocol on Water and Health	17 Jun 1999	18 Jun 2026	Ratification
Rotterdam Convention	11 Sep 1998	27 Aug 2002	Ratification
Specially Protected Areas and Biodiversity Protocol	10 Jun 1995	07 Sep 1999	Ratification
Stockholm Convention	23 May 2001	29 Sep 2022	Ratification
The Beijing Amendment (1999)		22 Oct 2004	Ratification
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	24 May 2000	24 Mar 2004	Ratification
The Copenhagen Amendment (1992)		04 Jan 1995	Ratification
The Kigali Amendment (2016)		25 May 2022	Ratification
The London Amendment (1990)		21 Feb 1992	Approval
The London Fisheries Convention	09 Mar 1964	25 Mar 1965
The Montreal Amendment (1997)		01 May 2001	Ratification
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	14 Jun 2011	09 Apr 2019	Ratification
UN Fish Stocks Agreement	27 Jun 1996	19 Dec 2003	Ratification
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	07 Dec 1984	13 Jan 1995	Ratification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification	14 Oct 1994	23 Jun 1997	Ratification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	05 Jun 1992	15 Apr 1994	Ratification
Vienna Convention	22 Mar 1985	19 Sep 1988	Ratification