Major atmospheric pollution agreements

By Nayonika

  • UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

    the first international treaty to deal with air pollution on a broad regional basis.

  • The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

    a multilateral environmental agreement signed in 1985 that provided frameworks for international reductions in the production of chlorofluorocarbons

  • The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

    an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion

  • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

    an international environmental treaty whose objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system

  • The Paris Agreement

    is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance

  • South East Asian Climate Protection Agreement

    Calls upon developing and developed countries alike in Southeast Asia to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2050 by adopting alternative methods of energy production and encouraging result le energy sources within the public

  • European Union Reusable Power Act

    Encourages European countries to switch to inexhaustible energy sources such as solar power and wind power by 2040.

  • North America Methane Reduction Act

    Requires countries to contain methane production to curb the spread of a harmful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Can be done in the form of putting limits on cattle rearing etc