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| Convention on the International Trade of
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 1974 (CITIES) |
To protect certain plants and animals by
regulating and monitoring their international trade to prevent it reaching
unsustainable levels.
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Ratified April 23, 1997 |
| Convention on Wetlands of International
importance especially as waterfowl habitat (Ramsar) |
The conservation, restoration, rehabilitation
and wise use of wetlands by national action and international cooperation as a
means to achieving sustainable development throughout the world. |
Ratified October 1997 |
| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change |
To stabilize the concentrations of greenhouse
gases (carbon dioxide and methane in particular) in the atmosphere at a level
that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-induced interference with the
climate system.
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Ratified January 6, 1995 |
| Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the
Ozone Layer, 1987 and its amendments |
To control and ultimately phase out the
production and consumption of ozone depleting substances (chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs), halons, other fully halogenated CFCs, methyl bromide, methyl
chloroform, hydro chlorofluorocarbons, hydrobromofluorocarbons, and carbon
tetrachloride) within stipulated deadlines. |
Ratified March 31, 1993 |
| Convention on Biodversity |
Conservation of biological diversity,
sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the
benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, including by
appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant
technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to
technologies, and by appropriate funding. |
Ratified January 6, 1995 |
| Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the
Convention on Biodiversity |
To contribute to ensuring an adequate level of
protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living
modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse
effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking
also into account risks to human health, and specifically focusing on
transboundary movements.
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Not yet ratified |
| United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification, 1994
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To combat desertification and mitigate the
effects of drought through effective action at all levels, supported by
international cooperation and partnership arrangements using an integrated
approach. |
Ratified November 12, 1997 |
| Convention on the Transboundary Movement of
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 1989 (Basel Convention) |
The key objectives of the Convention are:
- to minimize the generation of hazardous wastes in terms of quantity and
hazardousness;
- to dispose of them as close to the source of generation as possible;
- to reduce the movement of hazardous wastes
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Ratified January 23, 2003 |
| Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants, 2001 (Stockholm Convention) |
To protect human health and the environment from
12 of the most toxic substances:
8 pesticides: aldrin,
chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene.
2 industrial chemicals: hexachlorobenzene (HCB), which is also
used as a pesticide and can be a byproduct of pesticide manufacture, and PCBs,
or polychlorinated biphenyls.
2 unintentional chemical by-products:
polychlorinated dioxins and furans. These compounds have no commercial use.
Dioxins and furans result from combustion and from industrial processes such as
the production
of pesticides, polyvinyl chloride, and other chlorinated substances. Dioxins
and
furans are the most potent cancer-causing chemicals known. The Convention will
identify other chemicals in due course.
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Not yet ratified |
| Convention for the Protection and Development of
the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, 1983 (Cartagena
Convention) and its protocols |
The Convention requires the adoption of measures
aimed at preventing, reducing and controlling pollution of the marine
environment caused by ships, dumping, sea-bed activities, airborne pollution
and land based sources and activities.
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Ratified April 1, 1987 |
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