Environmental and Energy Business Resources

Atmosphere

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

Biodiversity - Global

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
• Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)

Biodiversity- Regional

• Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)
• Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic & North Seas (ASCOBANS)
• Agreement on the Conservation of the Black Seas, Mediterranean and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS)
• Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (Eurobats)

Environmental Conventions and Multilateral Agreements

• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (1998) (joint interim secretariat with FAO)
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Click on POPs and Science)

Land

• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Wetlands

• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Oceans, Seas & Water

• Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean
• Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area
• Arctic Council for the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
• Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities

Other links

• Antarctic Treaty System: Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and Madrid Protocol on the Protection of the Antarctic Environment

(Source: UNEP)