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Raising awareness of climate change: A handbook for government focal points
… are directly responsible for only a small proportion of greenhouse gas emissions, they must persuade businesses, communities and … can be used to raise the cost of activities that emit greenhouse gases or create vulnerabilities to climate change …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… Recreation Water regulation Carbon storage Avoiding Greenhouse Gas emissions by conserving forests: USD 3,7 trillion (net … expensive, thus discourages consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases. A law that rationed gasoline would leave no …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… FCPF Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (World Bank) GHG Greenhouse Gas ILO International Labour Organisation IUCN International … make up an estimated 18 percent of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the land use, land-use …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… natural vegetation, groundwater recharge, seed dispersal, greenhouse gas mitigation through carbon storage and aesthetically … released into the atmosphere (17 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions) is coming from stored carbon in …
International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)
… — for beach sands, hard rock minerals, and oil and gas — further and further offshore. The day may yet arrive … FCCC/Kyoto Protocol, where specific obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may encourage ‘sinks’ enhancements … emissions from ships. The IMO launched a study in 1998 of greenhouse gas emissions from ships, including carbon …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… Carbon Partnership Facility FIP Forest Investment Program GAS Guarani Aquifer System GEF The Global Environment Facility GHG Greenhouse Gas GLWQA Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement … objective of stabilizing the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in order to “prevent dangerous …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… Carbon Partnership Facility FIP Forest Investment Program GAS Guarani Aquifer System GEF The Global Environment Facility GHG Greenhouse Gas GLWQA Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement GWP … objective of stabilizing the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in order to “prevent dangerous …
Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… and cultural monuments. Abatement measures – such as flue gas desulphurization and the development of low-sulphur … in household energy, cooling, bricks production, oil and gas production, agriculture, transport, solid waste, and … relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level …