International Environmental Law

updated Mar 16, 2009 by sean foley

Selected Laws and Agreements

Aarhus Convention (on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters)
- Aarhus Clearinghouse on Environmental Democracy
- Kiev Protocol (on pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs))
Basel Convention (on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal)
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (of the Convention on Biodiversity) (regarding potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from biotechnology)
Chemical Weapons Convention
Geneva Convention (on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution)
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
International Atomic Energy Agency, International Conventions and Agreements
International Maritime Organization, Prevention of Marine Pollution Conventions (including the London Convention on the control of ocean dumping)
Rotterdam Convention (on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade)
Stockholm Convention (on persistent organic pollutants (POPs))
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol (Regarding Limitation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions)
Vienna Convention (on the Protection of the Ozone Layer)
- Montreal Protocol (on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer)