What Are Multilateral Environmental Agreements?
The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is responsible for a number of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). MEAs are legally binding agreements relating to the environment between three or more states. The benefits of MEAs include:
- Promotion of cooperation on environmental issues that affect all countries and that no individual country can solve on its own.
- Utilisation of available resources to the benefit of all the states that signed the agreement.
- Promotion and sharing of best practices in managing environmental challenges.
- Mobilisation of financial and technical resources to address common problems.