Environment
India has been very active in all the
international forums relating to environmental protection and has signed all
the multilateral agreements relating to the environment with a few exceptions.
In 2002, India reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development in the
World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg. India is a part of 94
major mutilated environmental agreements (MEAs) listed in Environment Treaties
and Resource indicators.
Multilateral
Environmental Agreements by India
Nature
conservation
1.
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
2.
Convention on international
Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES).
3.
The wildlife Trade Monitoring
Network (TRAFFIC)
4.
Convention on the Conservation
of Migratory Species (CMS)
5.
Coalition Against Wildlife
Trafficking (CAWT)
6.
Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD)
7.
International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTC)
8.
United Nations Forum on forests
(UNFF)
9.
International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
10.
Global Tiger Forum (GTF)
Hazardous material
11.
Cartagena protocol on biosafety
12.
Strategic Approach to
international chemicals Management (SAICM)
13.
Stockholm convention on
persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
14.
Basel Convention on the Control
of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous waste and their Disposal
15.
Rotterdam Convention on prior
informed Consent (PIC) for certain Hazardous Chemicals and pesticides in
international Trade.
Atmosphere
16.
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
17.
Kyoto Protocol
18.
Montreal Protocol (on Ozone
Depleting Substances)
Land
19.
United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Marine
Environment
20.
International Whaling
Commission (IWC)
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