The Paris Agreement is Adopted with the Most Ambitious Goal Yet

The UN climate change negotiations concluded successfully yesterday in Paris. The COP21 president Laurent Fabius announced at around 8 pm on 12 December that ...

A Tipping Point For Humanity?

The negotiations at COP21 in Paris have not just been about climate change, writes James Fahn, but about our ability to act as a community of nations.

Basel Convention

The Basel Convention is a legally binding international treaty that aims to limit international movements of hazardous waste, especially from developed to less ...

Ozone, CFCs and the Montreal Protocol

The Montreal Protocol controls substances that harm the ozone layer, and is considered to be the most successful environmental treaty to date.

Rotterdam Convention

The Rotterdam Convention is an international treaty that aims to protect people from hazardous substances that are exported from other nations.

Stockholm Convention

The Stockholm Convention is an international treaty that aims to ban or limit production and use of persistent organic pollutants.

UN Convention on Biological Diversity

This treaty aims to prevent the loss of nature’s riches and ensure humanity uses them fairly and sustainably.

Warfare

People can carry on dying long after the last bullet in a war has been fired, thanks to the toxic legacy of military action.