Virtual Library: Forestry

Forest Legislation

Conventions

International Agreements

International Bodies for Negotiations

Other

Conventions

• The Bern Convention
• EU Habitats Directive
• the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy,
• CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PRESERVATION OF FAUNA AND FLORA IN THEIR NATURAL STATE (1933)
• CONVENTION ON NATURE PROTECTION AND WILD LIFE PRESERVATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (1940)
• CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Signed at Washington, D.C., on 3 March 1973 Amended at Bonn, on 22 June 1979
  Appendices, and WCMC Support Services to CITES
• CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS (1979) with APPENDICES as AMENDED 1985, 1988
• UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE (1992)
• CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (1992)
• PROTOCOL TO THE 1979 CONVENTION ON LONG-RANGE TRANSBOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION ON LONG-TERM FINANCING OF CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMME FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE LONG-TERM TRANSMISSION OF AIR POLLUTANTS IN EUROPE (EMEP) (1984)
• CONVENTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN A TRANSBOUNDARY CONTEXT (1991)

International Agreements

• INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT (1983)
• RIO 1992
  • THE RIO DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (1992)
  • Non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests [The Forest Principles] (1992)
  • The Forest principles (14. Aug 1992)
• MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON SUBSTANCES THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER (1992)

International Bodies for Negotiations

• UN Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
  • Under UN Commission on Sustainable Development
  • Division for Sustainable Development
  • Commission on Sustainable Development
  • FOREST PRINCIPLES - gopher
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Forests - gopher
  • Document owner/maintainer: Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development

Other

• Natural.Re.Source - Regulatory Database
  • Natural.Re.Source, is a unique regulatory portal that spans a variety of industry areas - including Forestry, Oil and Gas, Environment and Health & Safety.
  • This portal contains complete information on the laws, regulations and policies that govern those sectors. It is an invaluable tool for any professional needing to stay on top of the ever changing laws and policy governing our natural resources and environment.
  • Document owner/maintainer: Jonathan Jensen