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Find out more about what issue each environmental agreement seeks to address and how the conventions complement each other. For multilateral environmental agreements you will find; environmental agreements' summary, environmental agreements' text and amendments, environmental agreements' decisions and resolutions, environmental agreements' ratification status.

Regional treaties

54 regional treaties and protocols

Abidjan Convention

Biological diversity

Chemicals and Waste

Marine and Freshwater

Africa

Glossary term(s):

Conservation, land-based marine pollution, marine pollution, Marine resources conservation, Ship-based marine pollution

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Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds

Biological diversity

Africa

Europe

Glossary term(s):

Economy, Environment, Migratory species, protection of species, waterbird, Wetlands

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Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats

Biological diversity

Europe

Glossary term(s):

Economy, Pesticides, protection of species

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Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas

Biological diversity

Europe

Glossary term(s):

Economy, Marine resources conservation, Migratory species, protection of species

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Antigua Convention

Biological diversity

Marine and Freshwater

Asia and the Pacific

Glossary term(s):

Economy, fisheries management, Marine resources conservation, Sustainable development

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Global treaties

37 global treaties and protocols

Aarhus Convention

Environmental Governance

Global

Glossary term(s):

Access to information, Access to justice, Economy, Public participation

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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

Marine and Freshwater

Global

Glossary term(s):

Areas beyond national jurisdiction, Biological Diversity, Conservation, Sustainable use

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Basel Convention

Chemicals and Waste

Global

Glossary term(s):

Chemicals, Environmental Impact Assessment, Hazardous waste, Illegal trade, Labelling, Pesticides, Risk assessment, Waste, Waste exports, Waste management

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Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation

Environmental Governance

Chemicals and Waste

Global

Glossary term(s):

Compensation, Hazardous waste, liability, Waste exports

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Cartagena Protocol

Biological diversity

Land and Agriculture

Global

Glossary term(s):

agrobiodiversity, biosafety, biotechnology, Genetic resources, genetically modified organism, health, Illegal trade, Imports, information exchange, living modified organism, prior informed consent

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