International Conventions, Regional Agreements and EU Directives on Biodiversity
Alongside the CBD, a large number of other international agreements plays an important part in the conservation of biodiversity. These include the two other "Rio-Conventions" negotiated and adopted together with the CBD at the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro in 1992:
The following additional conventions and EU directives have a regional focus or address conservation of specific subdivisions of biodiversity:
- Cartagena Protocol
(Biosafety Protocol, innerhalb der CBD) - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
(BfN is the enforcement agency for Germany) - World Heritage Convention
- Convention on Migratory Species (CMS, 1979)
- European Natura 2000 network of protected areas
(EU Birds Directive and Habitats Directive; BfN is the enforcement agency for the German marine Exclusive Economic Zone) - UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme
- Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area
(new Helsinki Convention, 1992) - Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
(Oslo-Paris/OSPAR Convention, 1992) - Ramsar Convention
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, 1971) - Antarctic Treaty and Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)
(Antarctic Treaty, 1959, and Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, 1991)
