International trade agreements are formal s between countries that establish the rules and guidelines for trade between them.
Some common types of international contracts include sales agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, and employment contracts.
The United Nations Charter (1945) is both a multilateral treaty and the constituent instrument of the United Nations. An example of a regional agreement that operates as a constituent agreement is the charter of the Organization of American States (Charter of Bogotá), which established the organization in 1948.
International environmental agreements (IEAs) are treaties negotiated, signed, and ratified by individual nation-states to address transboundary environmental issues. This article provides an overview of the recent state of the art in the domain of the political economy of the formation of IEAs.
What are some examples of international environmental agreements? Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) ... Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ... Kyoto Protocol. The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. Paris Agreement. World Heritage Convention.
Geneva Protocol. Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) ... United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540) ... Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ... International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR (2005)) ... International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) ... Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
Examples include: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. Convention on Biodiversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Some, like the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the 1980 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and the 1992 Convention on Biodiversity, explicitly adopt ecosystems management approaches; even the larger number focused on a particular problem define that problem in ecological terms and ...
Numerous conventions followed, such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and the Stockholm Convention on ...
The International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project, hosted by the University of Oregon, describes more than 3,700 international environmental treaties, conventions, and other agreements from the 1850s to the present.