Guidelines for MNEs › Themes › Environment
The environment chapter of the Guidelines provides a framework for MNEs to raise their environmental performance and help maximise their contribution to environmental protection through improved internal management and better planning.
It broadly reflects the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21.
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GUIDANCE AND TOOLS
Climate Neutral Network
Life Cycle Initiative
UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Convention on Biological Diversity
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative
ISO 14000 Standards – Environmental Management
Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21
Stockholm Convention and following International Treaties on Persistent Organic Pollutants
UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention)
UN Environment Program Finance Initiative
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
UN Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals
OECD Policy Guidance on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation
Related Documents
The environment chapter of the Guidelines provides a framework for MNEs to raise their environmental performance and help maximise their contribution to environmental protection through improved internal management and better planning.