International Environmental Conventions, Treaties and Protocols
(as of December 2007)
1
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
2
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
3
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity
4
The Beijing Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the ozone layer
5
African-Eurasian Migratory Water Bird Agreement
6
The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
7
The Kyoto Protocol
8
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
9
The African Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty)
10
The Revised SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems
11
Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
12
The SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems
13
The Lusaka Agreement on Co-operative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wildlife (Fauna and Fauna)
14
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
15
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
16
Agreement on the Implementation of Part XI of the Convention on the Law of the Sea
17
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
18
The Chemical Weapons Convention
19
London Amendment to Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the ozone layer
20
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
21
The Convention on Biological Diversity
22
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
23
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
24
The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
25
Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa (BAMAKO)
26
Adjustments and Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
27
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
28
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
29
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
30
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
31
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
32
33
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
34
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
35
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
36
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
37
Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
38
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
39
Treaty on the Prohibition of the emplacement of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof
40
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
41
African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
42
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
43
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)
44
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
45
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water
46
Geneva Convention on the High Seas
47
Convention on the Continental Shelf
48
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951
49
Convention on the Political Rights of Women
50
The International Plant Protection Convention
51
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
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