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Skip to main content UO Home | Dept Index International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project (c) Ronald B. Mitchell and the IEA Database Project, 2002-2019. Main menu Home QuickStart Guide Agreements Country Memberships External Datasets IEA-Related Indicator Datasets Secretariats Relevant literature Coded Agreements Board of Contributors Project Menu Overview Goals Personnel Definitions Release Notes Contents/Caveats Publications Sources Research Guide Other Treaty lists Disclaimer Acknowledgements List of Text Files IEA Database Home The IEA website is constantly being revised and updated. A major revision occurred over the course of 2017, with the additon of numerous bilateral agreements and a wholescale updating of membership actions for all MEAs and a large number of BEAs. Current content includes over 1,300 MEAs, over 2,200 BEAs, 250 other environmental agreements , and over 90,000 individual country "membership actions" (dates of signature, ratification, or entry into force; release notes here ). A major thanks to Jorg Balsiger and Lorris Germann of the University of Geneva who identified over 650 BEAs and have provided the foundation for the IEADB to become a comprehensive list of both bilateral and multilateral environmental agreements. A list of BEAs by decade is available here. News: January 2020: New article on IEADB out: Ronald B. Mitchell, Liliana B. Andonova, Mark Axelrod, Jörg Balsiger, Thomas Bernauer, Jessica F. Green, James Hollway, Rakhyun E. Kim and Jean-Frédéric Morin. 2020. What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements . Global Environmental Politics 20:1 (February), 103-121. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00544 See online appendix at: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ieadb_article_online_appendix Spring 2020: IEADB treaty data and membership data are being updated and the database should be fully updated by late April 2020. The IEADB Project established a Board of Contributors in early 2017; international scholars committed to helping develop, maintain, and improve the IEADB database and research platform. Find out more here . New user of the IEADB? Try the QuickStart Guide to Using the IEADB. Agreement Lists Lists of international environmental treaties, conventions, and other agreements with links to text, membership, performance data, secretariat, and summary statistics. Over 1300 multilaterals, 2200 bilaterals, and 250 "other". Grouped by Date, Subject, and "Lineage" of legally-related agreements (e.g., those related to the Montreal Protocol). "Other" includes environmental agreements between governments and international organizations or non-state actors, rather than 2 or more governments. NEW: Membership links in agreement lists now provide year-by-year status reports, and the same information in Stata format for data analysis. View By Date View By Subject View By Lineage Summary Count and Graph of Agreements by Year How many Multilateral Environmental Agreements have been signed? Data or Graph of agreements by year and type (treaty, protocol, amendment). Commonly Researched Agreements Recent (2015-present) Multilateral Agreements UN Framework Convention On Climate Change Montreal Protocol on Ozone Protection Convention On Biological Diversity Convention On Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention On International Trade In Endangered Species Basel Convention On Control Of Hazardous Wastes Convention To Combat Desertification International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling Performance Data Datasets of over 150 environmental indicators (from secretariats or scholars) linked to the IEAs trying to improve them, for use in assessing the influence/effectiveness of IEAs, e.g., whale harvest (1910-2005) ; acid rain emissions (1980-2005) ; and emissions of ozone depleting substances (1986-2005) . Use the Performance Data link or the "Data" links in each Agreement list. View Performance Data Coded Agreements Compare provisions among over 150 multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that the IEA Database Project has coded. For example: agreements having withdrawal clauses can be selected; the membership or entry-into-force provisions of numerous agreements can be compared; or the implementation mechanisms of a range of agreements can be systematically evaluated. View Coded Agreements Relevant Literature Currently under development, this component seeks to identify 5 to 10 books, articles, or chapters related to specific IEAs or lineages as "starting points" for students and scholars. View Relevant Literature Country Memberships Lists of all agreements to which a country is a Party are now available. [To see which countries are members of a specific IEA, follow the links above or in the left-hand menu for Agreement lists and then click the link in the Members column of the results page.] View Country Memberships Secretariats Links for all environmental treaty secretariats related to the agreements in the database. View Environmental Secretariats Linked Treaty Datasets and Data Archives The IEA Project began in Fall 2011, to provide a means to archive datasets related to environmental treaties that can no longer be readily housed elsewhere. Digital Library of the Marine Mammal Commission International Environmental and Ecosystem Policy Documents Citations required for use of IEADB data: Data from Ronald B. Mitchell. 2002-2020. International Environmental Agreements Database Project (Version 2020.1). Available at: http://iea.uoregon.edu/ Date accessed: 29 January 2020 Data described in: Ronald B. Mitchell, Liliana B. Andonova, Mark Axelrod, Jörg Balsiger, Thomas Bernauer, Jessica F. Green, James Hollway, Rakhyun E. Kim and Jean-Frédéric Morin. 2020. What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements. Global Environmental Politics 20:1 (February), 103-121. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00544 Version Release Notes Developed with support from: National Science Foundation University of Oregon Envl Studies Program University of Oregon Summer Research Award Am. Phil. Society Admin Login Login...