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With the growing urge among nations to stick together united in the era of globalization,
Treaties, Conventions and Protocols are very important. The major difference between
the difference between Treaty, Convention & Protocols are detailed below:
1. Treaties:- Treaty is an agreement in written form between nation states (or
international agencies, that have been given treaty making capacity by the states
that created them) that is intended to establish a relationship governed by
International Law.
2. Convention:- It is a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates,
for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
3. Protocols:- It is an official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state l
diplomatic occasions.
Here is a list of important International Treaties, Conventions and Protocols. They cover
the most significant points in International history and have helped in shaping
International Law, Human Rights, etc.
List of Treaties, Conventions and Protocols

Sl Name Purpose Signed Organisation


No
1 Paris Aim is to strengthen 2015 Action Plan of the
Agreement the global response UNFCC
to the threat of
climate change by
keeping a global
temperature rise this
century well below
2 degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial
levels
2 Brundtland Gave concept of 1987
Report Sustainable
Development
3 Agenda 21 Action agenda for 1992 Action Plan of the
the UN that can be UN
executed at local,
national and global
level
4 World Heritage Defines the kind of 1988 Multilateral
Convention natural &cultural Environment
sites which can be Agreement
considered as World
Heritage Site under
UNESCO
5 Vienna Framework on 1988 Multilateral
Convention Protection of Ozone Environment
Layer Agreement

6 Ramsar Framework for 1971


Convention on Conservation of
Wetlands Wetlands & their
Resources
7 Convention on Protection of Wild 1963 International Union
International Animals and Plants of Conservation of
Trades in from Illegal trade to Nature
Endangered save their life
8 Kyoto Protocol Set Emission Target 1997 UNFCC
for Developed
Countries
9 Montreal Agreement to 1987 -
Protocol Protect the Ozone
Layer by phasing
out Production and
Consumption of
Ozone Depleting
Substances
10 Minamata Protection of 2013 UN Treaty
Convention Human Health and
Environment from
the Harmful Effect
of Mercury
11 Bonn Conservation of 1983 United Nations
Convention Migratory Species Environment
of Wild Animals Programme

12 UN Framework To Stabilize 1992 InterGovernmental


Convention on Greenhouse Gas Treaty
Climate Change
Concentration in
Atmosphere

13 Basel To Reduce the 1989


Convention Movements of
Hazardous Waste
14 Stockholm To Eliminate or 2001 Stockholm, Sweden
Convention on Restrict the Use and
Persistent Production of
Organic Persistent Organic
Pollutants Pollutants
15 Benzene Prevention from 1971
convention Toxic Substances
arising from
Benzene
16 UN Convention For Rights & 1982
on the Law of Responsibilities of
the Sea Nations for Use of
Ocean Water and
established
Guidelines for
Marine Natural
Resources
17 Convention on Conservation of 1993
Biological Biological Diversity
Diversity and Sustainable Use
of Components of
Biological Diversity
18 Convention of To Combat 1994 United Nation
Desertification Desertification and
Mitigate the Effects
of Drought through
National Action
Programs

19 Barcelona Protection of 1976 United Nation


Convention Mediterranean Sea Environmental
from Pollution Programme

20 Rotterdam The Prior Informed 1998 UN treaty


Convention Consent Procedure
for Certain
Hazardous
Chemicals and
Pesticides in
International Trade
21 Nagoya Access to Genetic 2010 Second Protocol on
Protocol Resources and Fair CBD
and Equitable
Sharing of Benefits
Arising from their
Utilization to the
Convention on
Biological Diversity
22 Cartagena Protect Biological 2000 First Protocol on
Protocol Diversity from the CBD
Risks Posed by
Genetically
Modified Organisms
23 Nairobi Agreement Between 1985 UN Environment's
Declaration the Parties to work Regional Seas
for the Prosperity of Programme
Western Indian
Ocean Region
24 Helsinki Set of Ethics for 1964
Declaration Human
Experimentation
developed for
Medical Community
25 Geneva Prohibition of the 1925
Protocol Use in War of
Asphyxiating,
Poisonous or other
Gases, and of
Bacteriological
Methods of Warfare
26 CITES CITES (The 1963 IUCN
Convention Convention on
International Trade
in Endangered
Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora
also known as the
Washington
Convention) is a
multilateral treaty
that was drafted as a
result of a resolution
adopted in 1963 at a
meeting of the
international Union
for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN).
27 Bamako Convention of 1991
Convention African nation
which bans the
importation into
Africa and the
control of trans
boundary movement
and management of
hazardous waste
within Africa

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