Environmental Governance
Definition(s)
'Compliance' means the fulfilment by the contracting parties of their obligations under a multilateral environmental agreement and any amendments to the multilateral environmental agreement (Source: Guidelines on Compliance with and Enforcement of MEAs, 2002)
Hierarchy
Broader: Environmental Rule of Law
Narrower: compliance mechanismdispute settlement
In other languages
French
respect des dispositions
Russian
соблюдение
Spanish
cumplimiento
Chinese, Simplified
遵约
Arabic
امتثال
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Multilateral environment agreements tagged with compliance
You can see below a list of multilateral environment agreements. Use the links on the right to
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compliance. This includes official treaty texts, decisions, recommendations, and other related
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Basel Convention | 1 article or paragraph50 decisions390 documents |
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Stockholm Convention | 1 article or paragraph7 decisions38 documents |
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Montreal Protocol | 1 article or paragraph |
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Cartagena Protocol | 2 articles and paragraphs |
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Nagoya Protocol | 7 articles and paragraphs |
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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture | 1 article or paragraph |
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | 2 articles and paragraphs |
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Kyoto Protocol | 6 articles and paragraphs8 decisions |
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Rotterdam Convention | 3 articles and paragraphs8 decisions34 documents |
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Barcelona Convention | 1 article or paragraph1 decision |
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Offshore Protocol | 1 article or paragraph |
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Aarhus Convention | 2 articles and paragraphs |
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Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution | 2 documents |
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Abidjan Convention | 1 article or paragraph |
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Jeddah Convention | 1 article or paragraph |