Environment
UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment
- UNEP Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate Change and SustainableDevelopment
- UNEP Global Resource Information Database (GRID) network
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- UNEP Regional Seas Programme
- UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
- UNEP Chemicals
- UNEP Global Programme of Action (GPA) for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, and the Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway — the oil pollution node of the GPA Clearing-House Mechanism
- UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions and Environmental Law Programme, Environmental Law Instruments and UNEP Support to Environmental Conventions
- UNEP, A history of international judicial decisions on the environment (as of December 1998)
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Washington DC, 1973), administered by UNEP
- Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (1979), with secretariat provided by UNEP
- Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedures for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (1998). Negotiations facilitated by UNEP in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001). Negotiations facilitated by UNEP.
- UNEP “Ozone Secretariat” for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987)
- Basel Convention on the Control of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989), administered by UNEP, and the Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation (1999)
- Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora (1994), negotiated under the auspices of UNEP
Sustainable Development
- Division for Sustainable Development of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Commission on Sustainable Development — Overview, Seventeenth Session (4-15 May 2009)
- UN Global Compact
- Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Barbados, 1994)
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- The World Bank
- UN Development Programme (UNDP), “Environment and Energy for Sustainable Development” and “Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability”
- UNDP’s Drylands Development Centre
- International Maritime Organization (IMO), “Marine Environment”
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO), World Weather Watch, Tropical Cyclone, World Climate, Atmospheric Research and Environment, Applications of Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Resources, Regional, Space, Technical Cooperation, and Education and Training Programmes.
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), “Energy and Environment”
- UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, “Space Technology and Sustainable Development”
- Principles relating to remote sensing of the earth from outer space (1986). Annex, Principle X Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), “Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability”.See also UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service on “MDG Goal 7”
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Natural Resources Management and Environment Department
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Environmental Unit
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (Geneva, 1979)
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). Programmes: “Sustainable Cities” and “Localizing Agenda 21”
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “People, Biodiversity and Ecology”
- United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), UNESCO link
- United Nations University (UNU), Environment and Sustainable Development Programme
- United Nations Forum on Forests and the UN International Year of Forests (2011)
IMO and the Marine Environment
- International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil (1954), administered by the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties (1969)
- International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (1969)
- International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Oil Pollution Damage (1971), including the Protocol of 1992, which replaces the 1971 Convention
- Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters (1972)
- International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL), International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation (1990)
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (1995), adopted by the United Nations on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
Water and Sanitation
- UN Family Contributions to the World Water Assessment Programme and “UN Water”
- UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Water Development Report
- UN Environment Programme, “Freshwater”
- UN International Year of Freshwater (2003)
- UN International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015
Environmental Safety and Nuclear Technology
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), “Sustainable Development and Nuclear Power” and “Focus Environment”
- IAEA facilitates emergency assistance to member states in the event of a radiation accident, under the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (1986) and the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986)
- IAEA is the depositary for the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1987), the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (1963), the Convention on Nuclear Safety (1994), and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (1997).
- IAEA’s Marine Environment Laboratory in Monaco — carries out worldwide marine pollution studies with UNEP and UNESCO
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)
Major World Conferences
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), The “Earth Summit” (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), and “Agenda 21: the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development”
- UN Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2000)
- UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (1994)
- Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21 (New York, 1997). “Earth Summit + 5”
- Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Barbados, 1994). Special Session of the General Assembly on Small Island Developing States (New York, 1999)
- World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002), and its Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and a 54-page Plan of Implementation
- The 2005 World Summit. See “2005 World Summit Outcome”, paras. 48-56: “Sustainable development: Managing and protecting our common environment”
Observances
International Decades
- United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)
- International Decade for Action, “Water for Life” (2005-2015), beginning on the 22 March 2005
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (6 November)
International Years
- International Year of Natural Fibres (2009)
- International Year of Biodiversity (2010)
- International Year of Forests (2011)
International Days
- World Water Day (22 March)
- International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May)
- World Environment Day (5 June)
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (17 June)
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (16 September)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (6 November)
- International Mountain Day (11 December),
- Other environment-related events, meetings and observances.