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Environmental standards and guidelines:

Environmental Conventions (UN Environment Programme)

Environmental Legal Instruments (UN Environment Programme)

Non-binding Environmental Instruments (UN Environment Programme) 

Text of global agreements and commitments on sustainable development (UN Commission on Sustainable Development)

Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights: Resolution by U.N. Commission on Human Rights (U.N. Commission on Human Rights, 27 Apr. 2000) 

Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights: Report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur (Fatma Zohra Ksentini, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, 20 Mar. 2000)

Agenda 21 (UN Conference on Environment and Development, June 1992)

Aarhus Convention: Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1998)

Bali Principles of Climate Justice - An international coalition of groups gathered in Johannesburg for the Earth Summit has released a set of principles aimed at "putting a human face" on climate change. The Bali Principles of Climate Justice redefine climate change from a human rights and environmental justice perspective. (International Climate Justice Network, 28 Aug. 2002)

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (UN Environment Programme, 1989, with 1999 Protocol on Liability and Compensation) 

The Bonn Declaration: Third International Forum of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change (July 2001)

Business Charter for Sustainable Development: Principles for Environmental Management (International Chamber of Commerce, 1990)

CEFIC Guidelines for the Protection of the Environment (European Chemical Industry Council [CEFIC], June 1987)

Cyanide Code of Practice: The Cyanide Management Code is being developed as a voluntary industry code for the gold mining industry under the direction of a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee formed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME).

Draft Covenant on Environment and Development (IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, 1995) 

Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment (drafted by an international group of experts on human rights and environmental protection, May 1994)  [NOTE: The U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment included this Draft Declaration as an annex to her final report...see Human rights and the environment: Final report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment]

Draft International Legislation on Human Rights and Environment:...The draft legislation is inspired from a wide variety of international legal doctrines that include human rights and environment. It is grounded in the belief that the full enjoyment of our human rights are profoundly linked to the state of the environment. (CEDHA-Center for Human Rights and Environment & CIEL-Center for International Environmental Law, Jan. 2002)

Financial Institutions Initiative -...Signatories to the UNEP FI Statement by Financial Institutions on the Environment and Sustainable Development commit to the integration of environmental considerations into all aspects of their operations. (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives)

General Comment on Right to Water: [United Nations] Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopts General Comment on right to water (U.N. News Centre, 26 Nov. 2002)

Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (World Tourism Organization, 1999)

Human rights and the environment: Final report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment (Fatma Zohra Ksentini, U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 6 July 1994)

Insurance Industry Initiative - In collaboration with UNEP FI a group of leading insurance, reinsurance and pension fund companies has developed a Statement of Environmental Commitment for the Insurance Industry (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives)

International Agreements, Treaties, and Conventions on Environment and Human Health: A Summary Note by Chris Calamita (Chris Calamita, Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 21 Feb. 2002)

Johannesburg Principles on the Role of Law and Sustainable Development adopted at the Global Judges Symposium held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-20 August 2002

The Keidanren's ten-point Environmental Guidelines for Japanese Enterprises Operating Abroad, in Business as partners in development: Creating wealth for countries, companies and communities (Jane Nelson/Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum [now International Business Leaders Forum], in collaboration with The World Bank and The UN Development Programme, 1996) 

Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Dec. 1997)

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN Conference on Environment and Develpment, June 1992)

Sierra Club Conservation Policies

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)

World Medical Association Statement on Pollution