'This Yearbook clearly fills many gaps and provides reliable and well-researched information'
Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

'The key updates on conventions and organizations are complemented by a series of proactive essays by leading environmentalists on the cutting-edge issues. This edition is an important source book in advance of the World Summit for Sustainable Development 2002'
Nigel Cross, Executive Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (UNEP)

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 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
* 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.
* Country Profiles
Summaries of the performance and main commitments of all OECD countries in addition to Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, South Africa, and Thailand.

Originally published in 2001

Stokke, Olav Schram ; Thommessen, Oystein B.

Introduction
Olav Schram Stokke and 0ystein B. Tliommessen
Global Environmental Governance: UN Fragmentation und CO-ordination
Steinar Andresell
Environmental Standards: Industry's Gift to a Polluted Globe or the Developed World's Competition-Killing Strategy?
Jennifer Clapp
The 1999 Multi-Pollutant Protocol: A Neglected Break Through in Solving Europe's Air Pollution Problems?
JQrgen Wettestad
The Basil Convention and the InternationalTrade in Hazardous Waste
Jonathan Krueger
The Unltcd Nntrona Flsh Stocks Agreement
Lawrence Juda
The World Bank: A Lighter Shade of Green?
David Hunter
General Environmental Concerns
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Dccision-Making and Access to Justice in
Environmental Matters (Arlius Convention), Arhus, 1998
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), Espoo, 1991
Atmosphere
Annex 16. vol. I1 (Environmental Protection: Aircraft Engine Emissions) to the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, Montreal, 1981
Convention Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), Geneva, 1979
United Nation? 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, 1981
Hazardous Substances
Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movements and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, Barnako, 199 1
Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused during Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail, and Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD), Geneva, 1989
Convention on the Control of Transboundary Moveme~~olPs Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Base1 Convention), Rasel, 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 Effect\ 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 Good? by Inland Waterways (ADN), Gcncva, 2000
European Agreerncnt Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), Geneva, 1957
FAO International Code of Conduct on the Dislribution and U$e of Pesticides, Rome, 1985
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm Convcntion on POPS), Stockholm. 200 1
Marine Environment
Global Conventions
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention 1Y72), 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, 2001 (Bunkers Convention), London, 2001
International Convention on Civil Liability tor Oil Pollution Damage 1969 (1969 CLC), Brussels 1969 , 1976 and 1984
International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage 1971 (1971 Fund Convention), Brussels, 1971
Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea (HNS), London 1996
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response, and Co-operation (OPRC), London, 1990
International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties (Intervention Convention): Brussels, 1969
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOS Convention), Montego Bay, 1982
Regional Conventions
Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention), Paris, 1992
Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Arca (1 992 Helsinki Convention), Helsinki, 1992
Conventions within the UNEP Regional Seas Programme
Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution, Bucharest, 1992
Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, Cartagena de Indias, 1983
Convention for the Protection, Management, and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region, Nairobi. 1985
Kuwait Regional Convention for Co-operation on the Protection of the Marine Environment from Pollution, Kuwait, 1978
Convention for the Protcction and Development of the Marine Environment and Coastal Region of the Mediterranean Sea (Barcelona Convention), Barcelona, 1976
Regional Convention for the Conservation of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Environment, Jeddah, 1982
Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region (SPREP Convention), Noumea, 1986
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