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Multilateral Environmental Conventions

Background

• What are MECs?
• What is the role of UNEP?
• Some definitions to navigate the sea of UN jargon

Environmental News Bulletin

• For the latest information on the Conventions

The Conventions:

• Conventions on Wetlands (Ramsar)
• Convention on Migratory Species
• CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
• UN Convention to Combat Desertification
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals in international trade (PIC)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
• Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (under negotiation)
• Regional Seas Conventions