Selected Documents

Abstract

UNEP

• Governing Council: Decisions of Second Special Session on

• Framework Convention on Climate Change 155

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 155

• Second World Climate Conference 156

• Strengthening the Role of UNEP and the Governing Council 156

• Hazardous Wastes 157

• Comprehensive Approach to Hazardous Waste 157

• Need for Effective Global Protection of Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems 158

• International Legal Instrument on the Biological Diversity of the Planet 158

• New Developments in the Protection of the Ozone Layer 159

• Priority Evolving Environmental Issues for Consideration by the Prepcom of UNCED 159

UNCED

• Decisions of the Preparatory Committee on:

• Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes, Particularly Hazardous Wastes 161

• New and Renewable Sources of Energy 161

• Protection of the Atmosphere: Climate 161

• Protection of the Atmosphere: Ozone Depletion 162

• Protection of the Atmosphere: Transboundary Air Pollution 162

• Co-operation on Transfer of Technology and Financial Resources to Developing Countries 162

• Environmental Education 162

• Conservation of Biological Diversity 162

• Transfer of Technology 162

• Working Group on Legal, Institutional and All Related Matters 162

• Environmentally Sound Management of Biotechnology 162

• Protection of the Oceans and All Kinds of Seas, Including Enclosed and Semi-enclosed Seas, and Coastal Areas and the Protection, Rational Use and Development of Their Living Resources 163

• Draft Provisional Agenda for the Second Session of the Working Group 163

• Role of Non-governmental Organizations in the Preparatory Process 164

• Environment and Development 164

• Protection of Freshwater Resources: Protection of the Quality and Supply of Fresh-water Resources 164

• Land Resources: Combating Deforestation 165

Montreal Protocol

• Decisions and Amendments 166

OAU

• African Convention on the Ban on the Import of all Forms of Hazardous Wastes into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movements of Such Wastes Generated in Africa (Final Draft) 173

UN/ECE

• Draft Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 181

UNCTC

• Criteria for Sustainable Development Management 186

• Towards Environmentally Sustainable Development – First Corporate Steps 188

USA

• Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Development (Statement by President Bush) 189

• Preserving the Global Environment – First Report of the 77th American Assembly 190

USA/USSR

• Joint Statement on Conservation in the Bering Sea Region by the All-Russia Society for the Protection of Nature and the SierraClub 193