List of Treaties, Conventions and

Protocols in PDF - SSC & Bank Exams

With the growing urge among nations to stick together united in the era of globalization,
Treaties, Conventions and Protocols are very important topics for the SSC & Banking
Exams. In the recent past, SSC CPO, SSC CGL, SBI PO, SSC CHSL, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk,
NICL, etc. exams have asked multiple questions based on Treaties, Conventions and
Protocols involving India. If you are preparing for these exams can't ignore this
topic and therefore, need to prepare from these GK notes on Treaties, Conventions and
Protocols.

In order to build your concepts clearly, before you proceed with the list, it is important
for you to understand these terms. Here's the difference between Treaty,
Convention & Protocols.

• Treaties - Treaty is an agreement in written form between nation-

states (or international agencies, that have been given treaty-
making capacity by the states that created them) that is intended to establish a rel
ationship governed by International Law.
• Convention - It is a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or
delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
• Protocols - It is an official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state
or diplomatic occasions.

Here is a list of important International Treaties, Conventions and Protocols. They cover
the most significant points in International history and have helped in shaping
International Law, Human Rights, etc.

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List of Treaties, Conventions and Protocols

Name Purpose Signed Organisation

Aim is to strengthen the global response to

Paris the threat of climate change by keeping a Action Plan of
2015
Agreement global temperature rise this century well below the UNFCC
2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

Brundtland
Gave concept of Sustainable Development 1987 -
Report

Action agenda for the UN that can be executed Action Plan of

Agenda 21 1992
at local, national and global level the UN

World Defines the kind of natural &cultural sites Multilateral

Heritage which can be considered as World Heritage 1988 Environment
Convention Site under UNESCO Agreement

Multilateral
Vienna
Framework on Protection of Ozone Layer 1988 Environment
Convention
Agreement

Ramsar
Framework for Conservation of Wetlands
Convention 1971 -
& their Resources
on Wetlands

Convention on International

International Protection of Wild Animals and Plants Union of

1963
Trades in from Illegal trade to save their life Conservation

Endangered of Nature

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Species

Kyoto
Set Emission Target for Developed Countries 1997 UNFCC
Protocol

Agreement to Protect the Ozone Layer by

Montreal
phasing out Production and Consumption 1987 -
Protocol
of Ozone Depleting Substances

Protection of Human Health and

Minamata
Environment from the Harmful Effect of 2013 UN Treaty
Convention
Mercury

United Nations
Bonn Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild
Environment
Convention Animals
1983 Programme

UN
Framework Inter-
To Stabilize Greenhouse Gas Concentration in
Convention 1992 Governmental
Atmosphere
on Climate Treaty
Change

Basel To Reduce the Movements of Hazardous

1989 -
Convention Waste

Stockholm
Convention To Eliminate or Restrict the Use and Stockholm,
2001
on Persistent Production of Persistent Organic Pollutants Sweden

Organic

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Pollutants

Benzene Prevention from Toxic Substances arising

1971 -
convention from Benzene

UN
For Rights & Responsibilities of Nations for
Convention
Use of Ocean Water and established 1982 -
on the Law
Guidelines for Marine Natural Resources
of the Sea

Convention on Conservation of Biological Diversity and

Biological Sustainable Use of Components 1993 -
Diversity of Biological Diversity

To Combat Desertification and Mitigate the

Convention of
Effects of Drought through 1994 United Nation
Desertification
National Action Programs

United Nation
Barcelona Protection of Mediterranean Sea from
1976 Environmental
Convention Pollution
Programme

The Prior Informed Consent Procedure

Rotterdam for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and UN
1998
Convention Pesticides treaty
in International Trade

Nagoya Access to Genetic Resources and Fair Second Protocol

and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising 2010
Protocol on CBD
from their Utilization to the Convention on

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 Biological Diversity

Protect Biological Diversity from the Risks

Cartagena First Protocol
Posed by Genetically 2000
Protocol on CBD
Modified Organisms

UN
Agreement Between the Parties to work for the
Nairobi Environment's
Prosperity of Western Indian 1985
Declaration Regional Seas
Ocean Region
Programme

Set of Ethics for

Helsinki Human Experimentation developed for
1964 -
Declaration Medical
Community

Prohibition of the Use in War

Geneva
of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, 1925 -
Protocol
and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

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