Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Air

• Protocol to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) on Heavy Metals
• Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol)
• UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) on Persistent Organic Pollutants
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

Biodiversity

• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention)

Chemicals

• Rotterdam Convention
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Environmental Cooperation

• Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
• North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) (Link to The NAAEC Canadian Office.)

Hazardous Waste

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Canada U.S.A. Agreement on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste

Oceans

• Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Dumping Convention)

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