Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings

ATCM, Final Report of XXIll Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Resolution 1 Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment in Antarctica. Lima, Peru, 1999. 

Later, a number of recommendations on environmental issues were prepared by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM). The first was Recommendation VI-4 Man s impact on the Antarctic environment (Tokyo, 1970) in it, the Representatives recommend to their Governments that ... 

The XV ATCM (1989, Paris) represented a real turning point for the protection of the Antarctic environment. The parties, in Recommendation XV. 1 prompted their governments to undertake as a priority objective the further elaboration, maintenance and effective implementation of a comprehensive system for the protection of the Antarctic environment and its dependent and associated ecosystems aimed at ensuring that human activity does not have an adverse impact on the Antarctic environment and its dependent or associated ecosystems or compromise the scientific, aesthetic or wilderness values of Antarctica . The parties asked that a Special Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting be held in 1990 to explore and discuss proposals relating to the comprehensive protection of the Antarctic environment. 

Final Report of the XX Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Doc. XX ATCMjWP 37, May 1996. 

Certain places in the ice-free valleys have been designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), in order to protect ongoing scientific research or to preserve them in pristine condition for possible future study. This action was taken by the seventh Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM VII) in 1972 and is contained in Recommendation VII-3 (Stonehouse 2002, p. 369). The SSSI sites in the ice-free valleys are Barwick Valley (Fig. 3.6), the area between the Canada Glacier and Lake Fryxell (Taylor Valley), and the Linnaeus Terrace... 

Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Final Report of the Xlth Antarctic Special Consultative Meeting, Madrid, 3-4 October 1991. 

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