Creating compliance regimes for multilateral environmental agreements

The importance of fostering effective Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) to tackle particular environmental problems requires strong, efficient and effective compliance regimes to enforce their legally binding commitments. Procedures and mechanisms, entailing binding consequences for parties in non-compliance must be clearly elaborated.

Paragraph 9 of the Århus Declaration (1988) commits the Ministers of Environment for the UN Economic Commission for Europe to strengthen compliance regimes for MEA's.

1. Strengthening international environmental agreements
2. Monitoring implementation of international environmental agreements
3. Developing multilateral cooperation

1. Promoting multilateral framework agreements for benefit-sharing in biodiversity conservation
2. Implementing environmental legal agreements

1. Noncompliance
2. Disagreement
3. Compliance

1. The Aarhus Convention
2. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Compliance Continuum
3. Emerging Compliance Regimes
4. The Implementation and Compliance Regimes under the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol
5. Effectiveness of international environmental regimes: Existing knowledge, cutting-edge themes, and research strategies
6. Compliance Control in International Environmental Law: Institutional Necessities
7. GUIDELINES ON COMPLIANCE WITH AND ENFORCEMENT OF MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
8. Looking for Adequate Tools for the Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements : Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms
9. CONSTRUCTING EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL REGIMES
10. Promoting Compliance with International Environmental Agreements – An Interdisciplinary Approach with Special Focus on Sanctions
11. Strengthening the Global Environmental Treaty System