Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
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| Espoo Convention | |
|---|---|
| Start date: | 1997 |
| Scope: | Global |
| Policy area: | Environment |
| Legal status: | Legally binding |
| Type of instrument: | Regulatory |
| Form of instrument: | Convention |
| Language: | English, French, Russian |
| URL: | Espoo Convention website |
| Format: | htlm |
| Access: | Free |
| Publisher: | United Nations |
| Country(ies): | USA |
| Date: | 31/10/2011 |
The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) was created for mitigating environmental damages of certain activities having an important transboundary environmental impact through negotiations among the different affected countries.
| Objective | To "ensure environmentally sound and sustainable development" through the prevention, reduction and control of significant adverse transboundary environmental impacts from proposed activities |
| Target | Environmentally sound and sustainable development |
| Policy and/or legal framework | Fourth session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| Monitoring, assessing and reporting | Environmental impact assessment documentation |
| Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions | UNEP, UNECE |
| Main formal decision making body | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) |
| Main implementing body | Implementation committee |
| Keywords | Transboundary impacts, sustainable development, international cooperation, environmental impact assessment |
| FOREST EUROPE criteria | FOREST EUROPE indicators | ToSIA indicators |
| Protective functions | Protective forests-infrastructure and managed natural resources | No ToSIA indicators for this Policy process and instrument |
