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There are numerous international environmental agreements made to protect the environment in different ways. Many of these are legally binding.
One of the most well-known proposed agreements, the Kyoto protocol, is not legally binding as of 2001, because not enough countries have ratified it.
International environmental agreements include:
- Antarctic Treaty
- Basel Convention
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas
- Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
- Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping Wastes and Other Matter
- Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
- Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially As Waterfowl Habitat
- International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
- International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 (expired)
- International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994
- Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
See also
- List of treaties
- Kyoto Protocol - proposed by IPCC, but not in force
- Environmental organizations
- International environmental law
