List of international environmental agreements

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This is a list of international environmental agreements.

Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement. Several hundred international environmental agreements exist but most cover only a limited number of countries. These bilateral or sometimes trilateral agreements are only binding for the countries that have ratified them but are nevertheless essential in the international environmental regime. Including the major conventions listed below, more than 3,000 international environmental instruments have been identified by the IEA Database Project.{{cite web| url = https://iea.uoregon.edu/| title = IEA Database Home {{!}} International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project}}

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  • Aarhus Convention Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Aarhus, 1998
  • Espoo Convention Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, Espoo, 1991

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See also

References

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