4990

Researcher: 
Mitchell
Treaty Name and Text
Agreement Name: 
Convention on the status of the Volta River and the Establishment of Volta Basin Authority
Signature/Entry into Force/Termination
Date IEA was signed: 
2007-01-19
Signature Year: 
2007
Place IEA was signed: 
Ouagadougou
Date IEA entered into force: 
2009-08-14
Treaty Type
Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc): 
Agreement Type Level 3: 
E (environment) Code (agreement is environmental or not): 
Environmental
Source for E (environmental) code: 
Preamble: Considering that, in spite of the existence of important projects and programmes related to research and socio-economic development activities, there is continuous degradation of the natural resources of the Volta basin, especially its water resources, as a result of climate change and variations of the past decades, on the one hand, and by the negative impacts of the human activities carried out throughout the basin on the other hand; Convinced that the creation of an inter-States organization for the management of the Volta basin is essential to reinforce dialogue between the riparian countries and to effectively coordinate development action and promote sustainable water resources management in the Volta basin:
Text used for E (environmental) coding: 
Preamble: Considering that, in spite of the existence of important projects and programmes related to research and socio-economic development activities, there is continuous degradation of the natural resources of the Volta basin, especially its water resources, as a result of climate change and variations of the past decades, on the one hand, and by the negative impacts of the human activities carried out throughout the basin on the other hand; Convinced that the creation of an inter-States organization for the management of the Volta basin is essential to reinforce dialogue between the riparian countries and to effectively coordinate development action and promote sustainable water resources management in the Volta basin:
Words used to code as Environmental: 
natural resources/freshwater resources/climate change/sustainable water resources management
Lineage
Lineage: 
Volta Basin Authority
Sequence in lineage: 
300.000
Secretariat and auspices
Secretariat: 
Legacy
Hidden fields
Version: 
2014.10
Inclusion Auto-Generated: 
MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Subject: 
FreshwaterResources/Nature/Pollution/Air/
Category: 
ENV