LEX MERCATORIA: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PAGES *************************************** ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ================= OVERVIEW -------- General Agreements (Rio Declaration on Environmental Development 1982 & Excerpts from Agenda 21) Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna Convention on Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985 & Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone (1987) as "amended") Biodiversity (Endangered Species, Biodiversity, Biosafety) See also Bio & Life Sciences Climate Change (UN Convention & Kyoto Protocol) Transport of Hazardous Materials (several...) Elsewhere: Treaties, declarations and conventions CAMERON MAY CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS ........................................ THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE ........................... The Precautionary Principle [link: ] The Precautionary Principle: A Common Sense Way to Protect Public Health and the Environment [link: ] Prepared by The Science and Environmental Health Network Jan 2000 CEPA and the Precautionary Principle [link: ] The Precautionary Principle [link: ] by Peter Montague GENERAL AGREEMENTS ------------------ Rio Declaration on Environmental Development (1992) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^1] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Excerpts from Agenda 21 (1992) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^2] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] CAMERON MAY PUBLICATIONS ........................ PROTECTION OF THE OZONE LAYER ----------------------------- Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^3] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone (1987), as adjusted and amended by the London, Copenhagen, Vienna and Montreal Meetings of the Parties [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^4] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] CAMERON MAY PUBLICATIONS ........................ BIODIVERSITY ------------ See also ../bio.and.life.sciences/bio.html Bio & Life Sciences Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^5] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^6] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Biosafety Protocol (latest draft text) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^7] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Biosafety Protocol Final Draft of Biosafety Protocol; Approved at the Montreal Meeting on Biological Diversity Convention [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^8] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] CAMERON MAY PUBLICATIONS ........................ CLIMATE CHANGE -------------- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^9] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^10] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [link: ] (UNFCCC) UNFCCC Library [link: ] Climate Change [link: ] United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Climate Change/Kyoto Protocol Activities [link: ] United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) [link: ] Climate Change [link: ] International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Susten8 [link: ] the global network leveraging innovation, entrepreneurship and investment for sustainability is organising the launch of the World Climate Forum in London on September 27th 2004 at 'Climate Change Innovators' event CAMERON MAY PUBLICATIONS ........................ TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS -------------------------------- OECD Decision-Recommendation of the Council on the Reduction of Trans-frontier Movements of Wastes 1991 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^11] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^12] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] UNEP Guidelines for the Exchange of Information on Chemicals in International Trade (1989) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^13] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (1991) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^14] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (1998) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^15] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail [link: ] CAMERON MAY PUBLICATIONS ........................ ELSEWHERE: TREATIES, DECLARATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ------------------------------------------------- Treaties [link: ] (Many links to treaties (full text)) Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) [link: ] Stockholm Declaration The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) [link: ] World Charter for Nature (1982) [link: ] Environmental Law Library [link: ] Pace University Several treaties, agreements and conventions on: Antarctic Treaties Seas, Fish and Fisheries Air Pollution Control Climate Change Hazardous Substances Nature and Biodiversity Convention on Biological Diversity - Convention Text [link: ] Annex II Part 1, Arbitration KONTERM homepage [link: ] "KONTERM is a research project of the Research Center for Computers and Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991) [link: ] Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) [link: ] Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (1991) [link: ] Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of all Types of Forests [the Forest Principles] (1992) [link: ] UN Commission on Sustainable Development - 2nd Session, 16.-27. May 1994, New York, Austria 1st Report, March, 1994 [link: ] European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (revised) [link: ] Convention on the Protection and use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992) [link: ] Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (21 April 1992) [link: ] Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals [link: ] World Charter for Nature (1982) [link: ] Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973) [link: ] As Amended 1979, and Provisionally at Gaborone 30 April 1983 With Appendices (I and II, 16 Apr 93; III, 11 Jun 92) Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution (1976) and Protocols (1980, 1982) [link: ] United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Action Plan for the Human Environment (1972) [link: ] United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [link: ] Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (1992) [link: ] Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property [link: ] Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State (1933) [link: ] Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources [link: ] Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere (1940) [link: ] Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) [link: ] United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) [link: ] Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989) [link: ] Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (1991) [link: ] Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer [link: ] Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) [link: ] Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (1979) [link: ] FIELD papers FIELD [link: ] SOAS, University of London, 46-47 Russell Square, London WC1 B4 7P. Tel: +44 71 637 7950 Fax: +44 71 637 7951 Final report: Options for EC Emissions Trading [link: ] FIELD 22-2-2000 Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development[^16] -As part of their analytical work, the Study Team also produced seven scoping papers and an Interim Report- To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contract B4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.1 EC Trade and Competition Law Issues Raised by the Design of an EC Emission Trading System June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.2 The EC as a Party to the FCCC/KP An examination of EC Competence, June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.3 WTO Issues Raised by the Design of an EC Emission Trading System, June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.4 Identifying the Proper Incidence of Regulation in a European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading System, June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.5 Allocation off Greenhouse Gas Reduction Responsibilities Among and Within the Countries of the European Union, June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.6 Aggregate versus Gas by Gas Models of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading, June 1999 To the European Commission, DG XI, Study contractB4-3040/98/000795/MAR/B1 [link: ] Designing Options for Implementing an Emission Trading Regime for Greenhouse Gases in EG Scoping Paper NO.7 Compliance-related Aspects of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in the EU, June 1999 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (13 Nov 79); and Protocols (Financing, 1984; Sulphur, 1985; Nitrogen Oxides, 1988; and Volatile Organic Compounds, (1991) [link: ] Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (22 Mar 85) [link: ] Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer [link: ] As Amended in London, June 1990 CIESIN Policy documents relating to the Montreal Protocol [link: ] CIESIN Thematic Guides * Provisional Release * OZONE DEPLETION AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (9 May 92); Climate Change Secretariat. 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