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… WCC-2016-Res-061-EN Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity RECOGNISING that oil palm is the most productive commercially grown … forest fragmentation, peatland degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, forest fires, and greenhouse …

… services such as flood control, groundwater recharge, pollution control and supply regulation (Opperman 2009). 3 … in Oman. They were built to treat produced water from oil production operations in the Nimr oil fields, as an alternative to disposing water in deep …

… and other natural resources as well as the control of pollution and hazardous materials. The environmental legal … administration, and operate as provincial laws. Mineral oil and natural gas are included in the Federal Legislative … mines and oilfields. Exploitation of minerals other than oil and natural gas, therefore, is a provincial subject. Laws …

… local needs and technical challenges (Marghescu 2001). Oil-palm plantation managers along the Kinabatangan River in … regular flooding prevented them from establishing an oil-palm crop. In collaboration with WWF and local … and expansion of housing settlements; and • industrial pollution of rivers. Behind each of these direct causes is a …

… ............................. 24 1.5 Impact of Airborne Pollution on Forests … the IMF has pushed the government to increase palm oil exports and encourage greater foreign investments in palm oil plantations.51 Yet the burning of forests to make way for …

… tax and investment regulations, mitigation of air pollution.” 89 Dec. 17/CP.7 Annex, para. 43 90 All CDM EB …

… of the impacts of local barriers (such as highways, oil pipelines, railway lines and canals) on the movements and … (Hunt et al. 1987; Yanes et al. 1995) and, in Alaska, oil pipelines have been elevated above the ground to provide … degradation. It has little influence on point sources of pollution, such as effluent pipes, sewers and drains. …

… at least 30% is FSC certified. Printed with vegetable oil-based inks. SGS-CoC-0474 FSC Trademark © 1996 © Forest … sources dry up, become choked with silt or contaminated by pollution, the provision of this essential basic resource … in remote locations. Examples include cases where upstream pollution (often hundreds of kilometres away) affects river …

… Has the use of agro-industrial crops (such as rubber, palm oil and timber plantations) changed over time? • How do … ment, agriculture, mining, transportation, tourism, war, pollution, severe weather and specific cultural threats)? • …