Environmental Agreements
Sierra Leone is party to several environmental agreements:
- Biodiversity (Convention on Biological Diversity)
- Climate Change (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
- Desertification (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)
- Endangered Species (CITES)
- Law of the Sea(UNCLOS or LOS)
- Marine Life Conservation (Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas)
- Nuclear Test Ban(CTBT)
- Ramsar Convention(Wetlands)
Signed, but not ratified:
- Environmental Modification(ENMOD)
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