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Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… NATIONAL FOREST MONITORING VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ON VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ON NATIONAL … and their changes is key to national and international environmental and developmental policy processes and is … and tree resources are managed. 12 Defining and reaching agreement on the scope and objectives of the national forest …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… A guide for national drafters based on the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines by Elisa Morgera Maria Teresa Cirelli … nature of fires determines whether their social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts are negative or positive. … 8 Indeed, countries that have concluded an Association Agreement with the EU are often called upon to approximate or …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible Governance of tenure … of the right to adequate food, poverty eradication, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic … clearly define the rights and duties of all parties to the agreement. Agreements for investments should comply with …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… Roda Verheyen, Jens Mackensen and Gerald Scholz IUCN Environmental Law Programme IUCN – The World Conservation … accounts in the CDM registry in accordance with the agreement of the project participants. Box 3 outlines the CDM … will participate in the project activity, to approve the voluntary participation31 of this entity; and (iii) to …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… on money-laundering issues, World Bank; David Higgins, Environmental Programme Manager, INTERPOL; Hui Fu, … 62 5.3 Certification systems and schemes, and private and voluntary standards . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Part two. … Office on Drugs and Crime VPA Voluntary Partnership Agreement WCO World Customs Organization WWF World Wildlife …
Assessing the international forest regime
… Forest Regime Edited by Richard G. Tarasofsky IUCN Environmental Law Centre IUCN Environmental Policy and Law … 76 1.1 The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. … conservation. Furthermore, concerns persist that voluntary incentives for sustainable forest management, such …
Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Towards a mutually supportive … problems raised by the interaction of the CBD and TRIPS Agreement . 19 6.6 Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . … impact on the implementation of environmentally-beneficial voluntary certi- fication and labelling schemes based on …
Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
… area planning and management. The Department, through its Environmental Planning Research Unit, is actively involved in … with the IUCN definition. Therefore there needs to be agreement on exactly what is the relationship between the … management. Less formally, many countries operate voluntary codes of practice or guidance for land owners and …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… make a real difference to rural poverty, economic growth, environmental quality, human well-being as well as … or title. In recent decades there has been a high level of agreement that there is a strong linkage between ‘secure … to a process of demarcating the forest reserve and to voluntary conditions to halt the clearing of forest land and …
Markets and Incentives in Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Using Economic and Financial Tools to Sustain Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,000 government … of its kind to be developed in accordance with both the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate Community and … are also a variety of governance issues, illegalities and voluntary measures that can also have a signifi cant impact …