Environment Related Protocols and treaties

Environment Related Protocols and Treaties

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Here is a Big List summarized below.

Index Environmental Treaties and Protocols ·        List of protocols and treaties ·        UN conference on Human Environment ·        Convention on Migratory Species ·        Convection for the Protection of the Ozone Layer ·        COP (Conference of parties includes COP 11, COP 15, COP 17, COP 21 in Brief)

International Agreements/protocol/treaties	Places
UN Conference on Human Environment	1972 Stockholm (The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5–16 in 1972) Main Theme/Issue of the Conference : Protection & improvement of  human Environment which affects the well-being of Peoples & Economic development throughout the world
Convention on Migratory Species	1979 Boon (Germany) Popularly known as Bonn Convention Theme: Conserve Terrestrial, Aquatic and Migratory Species
Convection for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	(1985) Vienna (Austria) Theme: Protection of Ozone layer
Montreal Protocol Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer	(1987) Montreal (Canada) Theme: To give effect to/protocols and agreements to safeguard Ozone layer
Convection on the Trans-boundary of movement of Hazardous wastes	(1989) Basel (Switzerland) Theme: To prevent Movement of Trans-boundary of Hazardous wastes
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)	(1992) Rio de Janerio (Brazil) Known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , Rio Summit, Rio Conference, and Earth Summit Outcome: ·        Agenda 21 ·        Statement of Forest Principles ·        The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ·        United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
The Rotterdam Convention	(1998) Rotterdam (Netherlands) Theme: Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade It is a multilateral treaty to promote shared responsibilities in relation to importation of hazardous chemicals.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Known as Rio 2012, Rio+20	(2012) Rio de Janerio (Brazil) Theme: World Summit level summit on Sustainable Development
The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources	(2010) Nagoya (Japan) Theme: Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a 2010
Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) was held in Hyderabad	(2012)Hyderabad (India) Theme: The United Nations Decade on Biodiversity serves to support and promote implementation of the objectives of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties and 10th session of the Conference of the Parties	(2014) Lima (Peru : western south America) Theme: Prolonged Discussions on different protocols
COP 21 Paris Climate conference	2015  also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Theme: To achieve legally binding and universal agreements on climate with aim keeping global warming below 2 Degree

Conferences of Parties (COP)

(The main objective of the annual Conference of Parties (COP) is to review the Convention’s implementation.)

• 1st COP in Berlin -1995 (Next important one is COP3 outcome: Kyoto Protocol was adopted)

• COP11 outcome: Montreal Action Plan was produced

• COP15 in Copenhagen outcome: Agreement to success Kyoto Protocol

• COP17 in Durban outcome: Green Climate Fund was created

• COP21 (in 2015) also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference meeting after 20 years – Aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C)