Chapter XLVII: Appendix: D

Abbreviations for Selected International Environmental Agreements

A

Air Pollution -- Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air
Pollution

Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides -- Protocol to the 1979 Convention
on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning the Control
of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or Their Transboundary Fluxes

Air Pollution-Sulphur 85 -- Protocol to the 1979 Convention on
Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on the Reduction of Sulphur
Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30%

Air Pollution-Sulphur 94 -- Protocol to the 1979 Convention on
Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of
Sulphur Emissions

Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds -- Protocol to the 1979
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning
the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their
Transboundary Fluxes

Antarctic-Environmental Protocol -- Protocol on Environmental
Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

B

Biodiversity -- Convention on Biological Diversity

C

Climate Change -- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change

D

Desertification -- United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought
and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

E

Endangered Species -- Convention on the International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)

Environmental Modification -- Convention on the Prohibition of
Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification
Techniques

H

Hazardous Wastes -- Basel Convention on the Control of
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

L

Law of the Sea -- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(LOS)

M

Marine Dumping -- Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution
by Dumping Wastes and Other Matter; note - also known as the
London Convention

Marine Life Conservation -- Convention on Fishing and Conservation
of Living Resources of the High Seas

N

Nuclear Test Ban -- Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the
Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water

O

Ozone Layer Protection -- Montreal Protocol on Substances That
Deplete the Ozone Layer

S

Ship Pollution -- Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International
Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships, 1973
(MARPOL)

T

Tropical Timber 83 -- International Tropical Timber Agreement,
1983

Tropical Timber 94 -- International Tropical Timber Agreement,
1994

W

Wetlands -- Convention on Wetlands of International Importance
Especially As Waterfowl Habitat; note - also known as Ramsar

Whaling -- International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

Note: Not all of the selected international environmental agreements have abbreviations.

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