Sentences with phrase «other multilateral environmental agreements»

This is their National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA); «a set of actions complementary to national goals and objectives of other multilateral environmental agreements to which Bangladesh is one of the signatories» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 36).

This analytical report focuses on assessing the key individual, organizational and systemic capacities needed to meet and sustain global environmental objectives as framed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), collectively known as the Rio Conventions, and other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

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Montreal IGSD names «that other» climate treaty, 1987's Montreal Protocol «one of the world's most successful multilateral environmental agreements, having phased out 97 percent of almost 100 ozone - depleting substances — placing the ozone layer on a path to recovery later this century».

It is usually hailed as a «giant step forward» (Thoms 3) because the global community identified a problem, and agreed to reduce the causes (in this case CFCs — reduced by 50 % below 1986 levels by 2000), making it one of only two multilateral environmental agreements — the other being CITES — that have «functioning and active compliance mechanisms» (Victor 14).