Multilateral Environmental Agreements

USTR participates in U.S. policymaking regarding the negotiation and implementation of various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and processes, to help ensure compatibility between these agreements and processes and U.S. environment-related trade policies.

Examples include:

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Convention on Biodiversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
• Minamata Negotiations on Mercury
• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)