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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene� t-sharing regimes, and proposed reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanisms. No one blueprint for … Chapter 12 Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation 269 (REDD) and human rights Kathleen …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… assistance. The Spain-UNEP Partnership seeks to improve management, governance and connectivity of protected areas … services; • Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ schemes); • environmental … including rewards for enhancing carbon storage through forest restoration, rehabilitation and afforestation/ …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… rights obligations related to environmental protection and management. Although not all of these practices may always be … environmental contamination and illegal logging and forest degradation in a national park, violated the … N H U M A N R I G H T S A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T forest protection and land protection. He also received a …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to decentralization of government institutions … big chunk of mineral wealth has already been extracted. Forest was destroyed for building ships and railways. … elite is the main beneficiary while the large rural and forest populations surviving on nature feel neglected. Thus, …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… de Dios on 19 November 2015. He led a movement to resist forest invasions into the biodiverse Tambopata region by … logging is rampant in Maranhão, where much of the Ama- zon forest has already been felled.36 At the frontiers of … notably Brazil, with illegal logging a main driver in forest loss.136 This rise in illegal logging is leading to …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… iAEA Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management … erosion, as sources of clean water, food, wood and other forest products as well as having spiritual, cultural and … equitable access to and sharing of benefits derived from forest resources, including but not limited to genetic …
Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… InforMEA is steered by the MEA Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Initiative with the support of UN … (called “assigned amounts”). Changes in land use or forest plantations which result in emission reductions can … transfer of technology and to promote energy efficiency or forest conservation schemes. However, the reductions must be …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Africa and the Control of their Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, which requires … http://leo.informea.org/terms/forest http://leo.informea.org/terms/desert … Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention; also the 1992 Forest Principles 2(d), 5(a) and 12(d) refer to the …