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Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Pollution Book: Book - Unit 1 – Introduction … is dumping. Pollution from vessels can take the forms of oil, chemicals, lost cargo and equipment, sewage, garbage, … big supertankers, carrying a full cargo of 120,000 tons of oil. On 18 March, she struck Pollard’s Rock in the Seven …
20 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… hundreds of mil- lions of dollars in future contracts on oil exploration during the last weeks of his administration. The money now, the oil production later. Fortunately, the Ecuadorian … audacity to publish in Nature his findings of transgenic pollution, thereby risking corporate grants at UC-Berkeley …
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Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture

… many important food crops, such as sorghum, millet, yam, oil palm, sesame, date, pea and rice (FAO, 1997). It remains … (5); major starch crops (7); minor starch crops (3); oil crops (5); fruits (3); shrub fruits (6); tree fruits … salt, drought, cold and heat, as a means to reduce pollution and biodiversity loss. Crops that are genetically …
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The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

… developing, including in ABNJ. This has contributed to pollution, overexploita- tion of resources and destruction of … 14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based … Convention for the prevention of pollution of the sea by oil (OILPOL Conven- tion), the IMO assumed responsibility for …
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The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources

… the GMO. Therefore also highly refined products, such as oil obtained from genetically modified maize, has to be … requirement also includes highly refined products, such as oil obtained from genetically modified maize. The same rules … all sectors of the economy, to prevent soil, water and air pollution which also affect agricultural enterprises. Forty …
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Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD

… the sense that an action against a cross-border source of pollution must be brought in the country of the polluter, … may seek to apply 379 For instance, purified vegetable oil contains no DNA or RNA. (Personal communication, Seizo … then that definition would exclude processed vegetable oil, and possibly some other products. 115 Measures that Can …
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Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project

… non-renewable resource extraction, shipping ac- tivities (oil, chemical and cargo spills), the strategic use of … winds;’ and Art. 1, which includes in the definition of pollution actions which cause ‘harm to living resources and … in the water column (including fishing, shipping/pollution, military activities) may affect these resources. …
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An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

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