USTR participates in U.S. policymaking regarding the negotiation and implementation of various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and processes, to help ensure compatibility between these agreements and processes and U.S. environment-related trade policies.
Examples include:
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
- Convention on Biodiversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- Minamata Negotiations on Mercury
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- UN Environment Program Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
