International Treaties / Conventions / Declarations

• Agenda 21

• Rio Declaration

• Stockholm 1972

• Convention on Biological Diversity

• Convention to Combat Desertification

• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
  (Signed in May, 2002 but to be ratified by India)
  Full Text of the Convention

• Prior Informed Consent (PIC), Rotterdam Convention
  (For certain Hazardous Chemicals in International Trade)
  (Ratified on 24th May, 2005)
  Full Text of the Convention

• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  India has ratified it on January 17, 2003. [html], [pdf], and [word].
  Full text of the Protocol [html], [pdf], and [word].

• The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes

• Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

• World Trade Agreement

• Helsinki Protocol to LRTAP on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30 percent

• Sofia Protocol to LRTAP concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or their Transboundary Fluxes (NOx Protocol)

• Geneva Protocol to LRTAP concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes (VOCs Protocol)

• United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)

• Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)

• Convention Secretariats of the UNEP

If interested in more Treaties, please click for a alphabetical list of Treaties as below:
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI).

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