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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… standards Laws and regulations Waste burning Industrial energy efficiency Clean production incentives Vehicle … also offers economic and employment opportunities. Renewable energy provided jobs for 9.8 million people … in 2016, compared to 5.7 million in 2012 (International Renewable Agency 2013 and 2017). Waste recycling and reuse …
Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… competing demands on water resources across the water, energy and food sectors. The objective has been to identify … and re-using it where possible. Energy – especially non-renewable – can be mined and the institutional requirements … University of Geneva; Jordan Macknick of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Reagan Waskom from Colorado …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… of food, photosynthesis (which produces oxygen and energy, which humans consume through their food), and … State and the community for a 25-year period and is then renewable. Though the law does not impose it, the objective … forest to registered companies for 15 years and then renewable. These permits do not constitute a waiver of state …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… increasing difficulties in meeting their basic needs for energy, food, and clean water. * Legal Officer, IUCN … contract has a maximum duration of three years, and is not renewable. Once the provisional contract is concluded, the … final exploitation contract is valid for 15 years, and is renewable. These requirements do not prevent forest people …
Raising awareness of climate change: A handbook for government focal points
… must be able to invest a significant amount of time and energy in building a national programme. He or she must have … climate change concerns into their strategic planning. ● Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources can reduce urban air pollution and …
Negotiate: reaching agreement over water
… challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world economy by … game, it took steps to increase control over water and energy, often to the detriment of the others. There is … Tayan Raj Gurung, Aita Kumar Bhujel and Gyenbo Dorji, Renewable Natural Resources Research Center, Bhutan, François …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… the very essence of life, as well as agriculture, energy, industry, local livelihoods, ecosystems, and cultural … exposure to precipitation, and hence as source areas for renewable runoff from land surface that emerge as part of the … they are a relatively minor contributor to global renewable water supply.32 Drylands are conventionally defined …
Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa
… the conditions essential to life (climate, water and energy cycles) are at the roots of the liveli- hoods of human … and the expected results, and are ready to invest time and energy in the initiative Capacity to communicate – the … in the man- groves, the need to replace this source of energy with another—let us say butane gas—and the commitment …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… Use (March 17, 1998); Agreement on the Use of Water and Energy Resources of the Sry Darya Basin (March 17, 1998); and … protocol also advocates energy conservation and the use of renewable sources of energy. Parties shall exchange … by a sharing State, threaten the conservation of a shared renewable resource, or endanger the health of another State’s …