What are the International environmental conventions?
The conventions focus on various issues, for example, climate change, stratospheric ozone layer protection, air quality, chemicals, and nature conservation. The conventions are tools for promoting cooperation and the development of international environmental law and actions. It is crucial to understand that environmental protection and conservation have a great effect on human-induced processes or actions. The environment can be evaluated and transacted by assessing processes, practices, and policies. All these should be of an adequate nature. All the international conventions and agreements’ main objective and goal is regulation and management of our approach to the natural environment.
To ensure that it is implemented rightly and the procedure is maintained at the state level as well as at the national level. Even at the international level, numerous parties are signatories as it’s not an act that affects an individual in isolation, but it affects the entire world.
Important International Environmental Agreements
The table below gives the list of important environmental conventions of the world:
| List of Environmental Conventions | |
| Name | Year of Establishment |
| Ramsar Convention | 1971 |
| Stockholm Convention | 2001 |
| CITES | 1973 |
| Convention on Biological Diversity | 1992 |
| Bonn Convention | 1979 |
| Vienna Convention | 1985 |
| Montreal Protocol | 1987 |
| Kyoto Protocol | 1997 |
| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) | 1992 |
| Rio Summit | 1992 |
| UNCCD | 1994 |
| Basel Convention | 1989 |
| Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | 2000 |
| UN-REDD | 2008 |
| Nagoya Protocol | 2010 |
| COP24 | 2018 |
| COP21 | 2016 |
| Kigali Amendment | 2016 |
| Minamata Convention | 2013 |
| Rotterdam Convention | 1998 |
| COP25 | 2019 |
