'An important tool for researchers and decision-makers alike'
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

'An invaluable source for everyone who needs to be up-to-date on international efforts to solve global environmental challenges. Unique in its presentations of the interrelationship between treaties, IGO, NGOs and governments'
Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute (WRI)

The essential reference to all the rapidly multiplying international agreements on environment and development issues. This ninth annual edition of the Yearbook demonstrates the international community's position on specific environment and development problems, the main obstacles to effective international solutions, and how to overcome them. It assesses both the achievements and shortcomings of co-operation, distinguishing between the rhetoric and the reality of environment world politics.

Contents
* Current Issues and Key Themes
* Agreements on Environment and Development
Systematically listed key data and illustrations concerning the most important international agreements presented on the basis of information from the organizations in question and other sources, covering such matters as:
objectives ? scope ? time and place of establishment ? status of participation ? affiliated instruments and organizations ? major activities ? secretariat ? finance ? rules and standards ? monitoring and implementation ? decision-making bodies ? key publications ? Internet sources.
This edition includes the new International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
* Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies
objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? decision-making bodies ? finance ? key publications ? Internet sources.
* International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
* objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? budget ? key publications ? Internet sources.

Originally published in 2002

Olav Schram Stokke

Contributors to this Yearbook
Introducation
Olav Schram Stokke and 0ystein B. Thommessen
Current Issues and Key Themes
The Johannesburg Summit and Sustainable Development: How Effective are Environmental Mega conferences?
Gill Seyfang and Andrew Jordan
The Global Climate Change Regime: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Benito Mnller
Environmental Protection in the South Pacific: The Effectiveness of SPREP and its Conventions
Richard Herr
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty: A Ten-Year Review
Davor Vidas
The Ransar Convention o r z Wetlands: Has it Made a Difference?
Michael Bowman
Friends of the Earth International
Keith Suter
General Environmental Concerns
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Arhus Convention), htu~s1, 998
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), Espoo, 1991
Atmosphere
Annex 16, vol. E (Environmental Protection: Aircraft Engine Emissions) to the L944 Chicago Convention on
International Civil Aviation, Montreal, 198 1
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), Geneva, 1979
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), New York, 1992
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, Vienna, 1985, including the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Montreal. 1987
Hazardous Substances
Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movements and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (Bamako Convention), Bamako, 1991
Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused during Carriage of Dangct.ous Goods by Road, Rail, and
Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD), Geneva, 1989
Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention), Basel, 1989
Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in
International Trade (Rotterdam Convention on PIC), Rotterdam 1998
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents, Helsinki, 1992
Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to
Control the Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within the South Pacific Region
(Waigani Convention) Waigani, 1995
European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways(ADN),
Geneva, 2000
European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), Geneva, 1957
FAO International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, Rome, 1985
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm Convention on POPS), Stockholm, 2001
Marine Environment
Global Conventions
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention l972), London, 1972
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978
relating thereto (MARPOL. 73/78), London, 1973 and 1978
International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2002 (Bunkers Convention),
London 2001
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage 1969 (1969 CLC), Brussels, 1969, 1976, and 1984
International Convention on the Establishment of an Inte…