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InforMEA allows easy access and navigation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and international environmental law. InforMEA offers:
A semantic indexing and keyword search facility covering: Treaty Texts and 15,000 COP Decisions; Internationally agreed Goals and Targets including the SDGs; 0ver 200,000 national laws and 3,500 court cases (powered by ECOLEX);
A Learning section with over 50 free online courses supporting 70,000 learners from over 190 countries;
Party Profiles including national focal points and experts, national reports and action plans;
Treaty Profiles with texts, governing body decisions, ratification, and implementation status;
A Glossary with definitions and relationships of key concepts of Environmental Law;
A Goals section showing the collective contribution by MEAs to internationally agreed goals including the new Global Biodiversity Framework (coming soon).
The InforMEA Initiative: The initiative behind InforMEA is co-chaired by UNEP and CITES and brings together 25 MEA Secretariats hosted by 5 UN organizations and IUCN, in addition to observers and partners, to develop harmonized and interoperable information systems for the benefit of Parties and the environmental community at large. InforMEA is facilitated by UNEP and financially supported by the European Union. The MEAs contributing to InforMEA cut across environmental issue areas, from Chemicals and Waste (Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm, and Minamata Conventions); to Biodiversity (CBD); Trade in Wildlife (CITES); Plants (IPPC and Plant Treaty); Ozone (Vienna Convention); Air Pollution (LRTAP); Wetlands (Ramsar Convention); Migratory Species (CMS); World Heritage (UNESCO-WHC); Deserts (UNCCD); Climate Change (UNFCCC and Paris Agreement); Marine and Freshwater (Regional Seas Conventions, UNCLOS, Water Convention, and IWC) and Environmental Governance (Aarhus Convention and Escazu Agreement).
Recent updates
InforMEA launches new Negotiator’s Toolkit
The scope of international environmental law has rapidly expanded in the last fifty years, comprising more than 500 multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) addressing both global environmental threats and sectoral environmental issues.
The growing importance of MEAs and their dynamic, evolving nature require increased expertise and specialized knowledge from negotiators. The new Negotiator’s toolkit on the InforMEA platform provides a comprehensive knowledge base to assist negotiators with their work.
Access the toolkit here https://www.informea.org/en/negotiators-toolkit
Also see: The Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution Legal Toolkit which contains legislation relevant to addressing plastic pollution from all over the world. Access the toolkit here https://leap.unep.org/knowledge/toolkits/plastic
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