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Regional treaties

52 regional treaties and protocols

Protocol on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological and Landscape Diversity

  • Europe
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
biodiversity, conservation, protected area, protection of habitat, protection of species, sustainable use

Protocol on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

  • Europe
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
agricultural practice, agriculture, agrobiodiversity, biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, organic farming, protected area, rural development, sustainable development, sustainable use, tourism

Protocol on Sustainable Forest Management

  • Europe
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
biodiversity hotspot, climate change, conservation, ecosystem preservation, forest ecosystem, forest management, protected area, sustainable use, wilderness area

Protocol on Sustainable Tourism

  • Europe
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
conservation, protected area, sustainable development, sustainable tourism, sustainable use

Protocol on Sustainable Transport

  • Europe
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
connectivity conservation, protected area, sustainable development, sustainable use, transport

Global treaties

13 global treaties and protocols

Plant Treaty

  • Global
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
access and benefit sharing, food security, genetic resource, genetic resource for food and agriculture, mutually agreed term, plant genetic resource

Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol

  • Global
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
biosafety, liability, living modified organism

Cartagena Protocol

  • Global
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
agrobiodiversity, biosafety, biotechnology, genetic resource, genetically modified organism, illegal trade, information exchange, living modified organism, prior informed consent

Nagoya Protocol

  • Global
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
Glossary term(s)
access and benefit sharing, access to genetic resources, benefit sharing, indigenous peoples, information exchange, sustainable use

Ramsar Convention

  • Global
  • Biodiversity
  • Land and Agriculture
  • Marine and Freshwater
Glossary term(s)
RAMSAR site, water resources management, wetland

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Events

Nov
25
2019

Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)

  • Event
  • Europe
Nov
11
2019

UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 25)

  • Event
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
Oct
7
2019

Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14)

  • Event
  • Asia and the Pacific

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