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The Toronto Conference Final Declaration is the culmination of the International Conference of the Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security Conference attended by more than 300 scientists, policymakers, and corporate and environmental leaders from 46 countries and organizations. The Declaration characterized "climate warming... and changed frequencies of climatic extremes" as a critical problem, which would become "progressively more serious, more difficult to reverse, and more costly to address."
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action, covering every area where there are human impacts on the environment, to attain sustainable development. It is grounded on "the need to take a balanced and integrated approach to the environment and development questions."
The Rio Declaration builds upon the Stockholm Declaration, striving to establish a "new and equitable global partnership." It recognizes and urges the application of a number of principles including intergenerational equity, prevention of transboundary harm, common but differentiated responsibilities and the precautionary principle.
The Statement of Forest Principles is the first global consensus on forests, embodying principles for the sustainable management of forests. It reaffirms that states have the right to develop forests, while also urging that states assess the impact of their developmental activities on forest resources.
The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity has the objective of a fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies. In order to achieve fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, parties shall take legislative, administrative or policy measures as appropriate.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is a voluntary and non-binding international instrument on disaster risk reduction. The Sendai Framework intends to achieve, within a period of 15 years, the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health, and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries.
The Draft Global Pact for the Environment was intended to codify general principles of environmental law and fill gaps in the existing legal framework. However, the states recommended that a simple political declaration be adopted, which recommendation was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly. It intended to situate fundamental rights under international law by supplementing the 1966 conventions on civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights, with environmental rights.
The ASEAN Sociocultural Community Blueprint (ASSC) 2025 envisions an ASEAN Community that engages and benefits the people and is inclusive, vulnerable, resilient and dynamic. The ASCC lays out strategic measures to accomplish these objectives. In particular, "sustainable climate" requires comprehensive and coherent responses to climate challenges, as well as strengthening human and institutional capacity in implementing adaptation and mitigation measures, especially in vulnerable and marginalized communities.
The Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific: An Integrated Approach to Address Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (2017–2030) embodies high-level strategic guidance on how to improve resilience to climate change and disasters within the context of sustainable development. The Framework identifies three interlinked goals, namely: (i) strengthened integrated adaptation and risk reduction to enhance resilience to climate change and disasters; (ii) low-carbon development; and (iii) strengthened disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) embody principles that relate to the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The UNGPs implement the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework.