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Major Agreements & Conventions

Natural Resources Issues

Agriculture and Food Security

• Rome Declaration on World Food Security and to the World Food Summit Plan of Action
• World Declaration on Nutrition - Plan of Action for Nutrition
• Declarations of the World Food Summit: Five years later and other related documents
• International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Atmosphere

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• The Montreal Protocol
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985)

Biological diversity

• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
• UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat

Desertification

• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Hazardous waste management

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Bamako Convention on the ban of the import into Africa and the control of transboundary movement and management of hazardous wastes within Africa (1991)

Nuclear Safety

• Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management
• Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage
• Further conventions and legal instruments under the auspices of IAEA:
  • Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident
  • Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
  • Convention on Nuclear Safety
  • Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
  • Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention

Oceans

• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• IMO Conventions in the field of marine safety, preventing marine pollution
• Regional Seas Action Plans
  UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
• International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea
• Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses
• International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation
• FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
• Kyoto Declaration and Plan of Action