The United Nations Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

	Signature	Ratification	Party status
Aarhus Convention	18 Dec 1998	23 Apr 2002	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	26 Jun 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	09 Jun 2025	Ratification
Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal		12 Dec 2011	Acceptance
Amendments to the Text of and Annexes Other than III and VII to the 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals		16 Jun 2025	Acceptance
Barcelona Convention	16 Feb 1976	30 Dec 1977	Ratification
Basel Convention		19 Jun 2000	Accession
Convention on Biological Diversity	12 Jun 1992	29 Dec 2000	Ratification
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora		17 Apr 1989	Accession
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution		14 Mar 1997	Accession
Convention on Migratory Species		01 Jun 2001	Ratification
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat	30 Jan 1989	30 Sep 1988	Ratification
Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol		21 Dec 2017	Acceptance
EMEP Protocol		14 Mar 1997	Accession
Espoo Convention		20 Oct 2010	Accession
Gothenburg Protocol		09 Mar 2021	Accession
Hazardous Wastes Protocol	01 Oct 1996	28 Oct 1999	Ratification
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) - including Annex I/II		21 Jun 1991	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		13 Feb 2004	Acceptance
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture	10 Jun 2002	02 Dec 2016	Ratification
International Tropical Timber Agreement		18 Nov 2010	Definitive signature
Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers		20 May 2016	Accession
Kyoto Protocol	17 Apr 1998	11 Nov 2001	Ratification
Land-Based Sources Protocol	17 May 1980	02 Mar 1989	Ratification
Minamata Convention on Mercury	08 Oct 2014	18 May 2017	Ratification
Montreal Protocol	15 Sep 1988	29 Dec 1988	Ratification
Nagoya Protocol		01 Dec 2016	Accession
Offshore Protocol	14 Oct 1994		Signatory
Paris Agreement	22 Apr 2016	05 Oct 2016	Ratification
Prevention and Emergency Protocol	16 Feb 1976	30 Dec 1977	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		30 Mar 2011	Accession
Protocol on Heavy Metals		16 Jun 2025	Accession
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)		16 Jun 2025	Accession
Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment		20 May 2016	Accession
Protocol on Water and Health	17 Jun 1999		Signatory
Rotterdam Convention		17 Jan 2017	Accession
Specially Protected Areas and Biodiversity Protocol	10 Jun 1995	28 Oct 1995	Ratification
Stockholm Convention	23 May 2001	17 Jan 2017	Ratification
The Beijing Amendment (1999)		22 Dec 2003	Acceptance
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety		05 Jan 2007	Accession
The Copenhagen Amendment (1992)		22 Dec 2003	Acceptance
The Kigali Amendment (2016)		19 Dec 2025	Acceptance
The London Amendment (1990)		04 Feb 1994	Acceptance
The Montreal Amendment (1997)		22 Dec 2003	Acceptance
The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety		16 Jun 2025	Accession
UN Fish Stocks Agreement		11 Nov 2001	Accession
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	10 Dec 1982	20 May 1993	Ratification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification	15 Oct 1994	30 Jan 1998	Ratification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	12 Jun 1992	17 Mar 1994	Ratification
Vienna Convention		15 Sep 1988	Accession