Editing Geography of Tuvalu (section)

===Environment – international agreements===
Tuvalu is a party to:
[[Biodiversity]], [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|Climate Change]], [[Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol]], [[Desertification]], [[Hazardous waste|Hazardous Waste]], [[Law of the Sea]], [[Ozone Layer Protection]], [[Ship Pollution]], [[Whaling]]
<br>''signed, but not ratified:'' none

Tuvalu signed the [[Convention on Biological Diversity]] (CBD) in 1992, and ratified it in December 2002.<ref name="CBD">{{cite web| last = | first = |title= Tuvalu Sixth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity|publisher= Government of Tuvalu|page=|year = 2020|url= https://www.cbd.int/doc/nr/nr-06/tv-nr-06-en.pdf | accessdate=11 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="RT16">{{cite web|author= Compiled by Randy Thaman with assistance from Faoliu Teakau, Moe Saitala, Epu Falega, Feagaiga Penivao, Mataio Tekenene and Semese Alefaio | work= Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Tourism, Environment and Labour Government of Tuvalu |title= Tuvalu National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan: Fifth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity |date = 2016|url= https://www.cbd.int/doc/world/tv/tv-nr-05-en.pdf| access-date=25 May 2019}}</ref>

Tuvalu signed the [[Pacific Islands Cetaceans Memorandum of Understanding]] on 9 September 2010.

Tuvalu is a party to the [[Waigani Convention]] that bans the importation into forum island countries of hazardous and radioactive wastes and to control the transboundary movement and management of hazardous wastes within the south pacific region and is also a party to the [[Minamata Convention on Mercury]], [[Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants]], [[Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer]] and the [[Montreal Protocol]] on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Tuvalu is in the process of completing its accession to the [[Basel Convention]] to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects that may result from the generation, transboundary movements and management of hazardous and other wastes.<ref name="wm20">{{cite web| last = | first = |title= Assessment of Legislative Frameworks Governing Waste Management in Tuvalu |publisher= Prepared by the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with technical assistance from Monash University, on behalf of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). |page=|date = November 2020|url= https://library.sprep.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/waste-legislation-Tuvalu.pdf| accessdate=8 November 2023}}</ref>