Environmental conventions and agreements
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
It is an international environmental treaty governing actions to combat climate change through adaptation and mitigation efforts directed at control of emission of GreenHouse Gases (GHGs) that cause global warming. It was adopted in 1992. It came into force in 1994.
Current content includes over 1,300 MEAs, over 2,200 BEAs, 250 other environmental agreements, and over 90,000 individual country "membership actions" (dates of signature, ratification, or entry into force; release notes here).
Environmental conventions and agreements
Many other agreements have signed by India including the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris, 1972); the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar, 1971); the Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora
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What are 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
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Several hundred international environmental agreements exist but most link 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.[1]