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To help you navigate the world of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and International Environmental Law, this section offers you definitions and related information on the term concepts common to all or several Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

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A

Acceptance
Access rights
Access to genetic resources
Access to information
Access to justice
Accession
Adaptation
Adaptation Fund
Additionality
Adoption
Advisory bodies
Advisory opinions
Afforestation
Air quality
Air quality standards
Allocation
Alternative dispute resolution
Amendment procedures
Amendments
Animal health
Annexes
Appendices
Arbitration

B

Best environmental practices
Bilateral agreements
Biodiesel
Bioethanol
Biofuel
Biogas
Biomass
Biomethane
Biosafety
Biosecurity
Biotechnology
Breeders' rights
Budgets
Bureaus

C

Capacity building
Certification
Clearing-house mechanisms
Coastal management
Codes of conduct
Codex alimentarius
Committees
Committees of the whole
Common but differentiated responsibilities
Compensation
Compliance
Compliance committees
Compliance mechanisms
Conferences of the Parties
Conservation easements
Constitutional law
Consultation
Consumer protection
Contiguous zones
Continental shelves
Corporate reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate sustainability reporting
Cost-benefit analyses
Critically endangered species
Customary law
Customs

D

Dams
Data collection
De-listing
Debt relief
Debt swaps
Decisions
Declarations
Decontamination
Deep sea
Delimitation
Depositaries
Developed countries
Developing countries
Development aid
Disabled people
Disaster risk reduction
Dispute settlement
Domestic trade

E

Early warning system
Ecocide
Ecolabels
Economic assessments
Economic instruments
Economies in transition
Economy
Ecosystem approach
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem preservation
Ecosystem restoration
Education
Energy efficiency
Energy installations
Enforcement
Entry into force
Environmental cost allocation
Environmental crime
Environmental flow
Environmental Governance
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental indicators
Environmental management
Environmental procurement
Environmental Rule of Law
Environmental security
Environmental standards
Environmental sustainability
Equality
Evaluation
Exclusive Economic Zones
Exemptions
Exports
Expropriation
Extraordinary Conferences of the Parties

F

Fees
Financial institutions
Financial mechanisms
Financial rules
Flood control
Food aid
Food quality control
Food safety
Food shortages
Forest conservation
Forest management
Funds

G

Gender
Genetic engineering
Genetically modified organisms
Geothermal energy
Global strategies
Governance
Governing bodies
Green economies
Green infrastructure

H

Habitat restoration
Harmful subsidies
Health
High seas
Human rights
Hydroelectric energy

I

Illegal fishing
Illegal logging
Implementation
Imports
Information exchange
Infrastructure
Inland waters
Institution building
Institutional profiles
Institutions
Integrated management
Integration principle
Intellectual property rights
Intergenerational equity
Intergovernmental organizations
International agreements
International cooperation
International organizations
Intragenerational equity
Inventory

J

Joint liaison groups
Jurisprudence

L

Labelling
Land access
Land productivity
Land rehabilitation
Land restoration
Land tenure
Landlocked developing countries
Law reform
Least developed countries
Legal status
Liability
Licences
Litigation
Livelihood
Living modified organisms
Local administration

M

Marine spatial planning
Maritime zones
Mediation
Memorandum of Understanding
Microfinance
Mitigation
Monitoring
Mutually agreed terms

N

National focal points
National jurisdiction
National law
National reports
National strategies
Negotiations
No harm rule
Nominations
Non-governmental organizations
Non-parties
Notification obligations
Notifications

O

Objections
Observers
Offences
Online reporting system

P

Parties
Political status
Poverty
Poverty reduction
Preambles
Prevention
Principle of non-regression
Private sector
Production forests
Property rights
Protocols
Public awareness
Public health
Public participation
Public sector

R

Ratification
Recommendations
Recorded votes
Reforestation
Registration
Renewable energy
Reporting
Reservations
Resilience
Resolutions
Resource accounting
Rio markers
Risk assessment
Risk management
Rules of Procedure
Rural development

S

Safety measures
Science
Scientific bodies
Secretariats
Signature
Small Island Developing Countries
Social media
Soft law
Soil improvement
Soil quality
Solar energy
Sound environmental management
Sovereignty
Spatial planning
Special reports
Stakeholder engagement
Standing committees
Standing to sue
Storage
Subsidiary bodies
Subsidiary body on implementation
Subsidies
Sustainable development
Sustainable production
Synergy

T

Taxes
Technology
Technology transfer
Territorial waters
Tidal energy
Trade
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Transboundary effects

U

Unrecorded votes
Urban planning

V

Voluntary environmental agreements
Voting
Vulnerability

W

Waste reduction
Water quality
Weighted votings
Wildlife crime
Wildlife trafficking
Wind energy
Withdrawal
Working groups

Z

Zoning