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Selected International Agreements on Environmental Issues, Listed by Date of Adoption or Enforcement

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The Oxford Companion to Global Change

Selected International Agreements on Environmental Issues, Listed by Date of Adoption or Enforcement

Date

Agreement

1946

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

1959

Antarctic Treaty

1972

Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment

1972

Convention for Conservation of Antarctic Seals

1972

London Dumping Convention

1973

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

1973

International Convention for Prevention of Pollution from Ships

1975

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance

1979

Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

1980

Convention on Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

1982

U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea

1985

Vienna Convention for Protection of the Ozone Layer

1986

Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident

1987

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

1988

Convention on Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities

1989

Prior Informed Consent in Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides

1989

Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, and Their Disposal

1991

Antarctic Environment Protocol

1992

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

1992

U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change

1992

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

1994

U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification

1995

U.N. Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

1997

Kyoto Protocol

1998

Convention for Prior Informed Consent for Trade in Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides

2001

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Foods and Agriculture

For details, and for a separate and exhaustive compilation of multinational agreements (1875 to 2005), bilateral agreements (1351 to 2005), and secretariats see: International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Data Base available at http://iea.uoregon.edu and described in Ronald B. Mitchell, “International Environmental Agreements: A Survey of Their features, Formation, and Effects” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 28, Nov. 2003.

David J. Cuff