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Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… The data also demonstrates an increase in the quantity of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and … oxide, in the atmosphere due to human activity. Most greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for a long period. … (including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone gas, and chlorofluorocarbons (“CFCs”). The atmosphere and the …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report

… Change, accounting for at least 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, deposit their instruments of ratification. … rights bodies, climate change is truly a global challenge. Greenhouse gases emitted anywhere contribute to global …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… representatives from 48 Asian and European countries to Gas flaring at oil drilling site on the Napo river, Amazone, … in terms of the protection of ecosystems and vegetation; greenhouse gas emissions; and emissions of acidifying … and atmospheric emissions, indicators include emissions of greenhouse gases, emissions of acidifying and eutrophying …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations”.1 Thus human-made climate change is a … policies and projects that aim at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other substances leading to climate …
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Recognizing the indigenous territories as conservation areas in the Amazon Basin

… development based on activities that produce lower greenhouse gas emissions; 2. CALLS on IUCN Members active in the Amazon …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… The goal of the UNFCCC is to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would … and humankind.” Article 2 states that stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere should be …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… in the USA, focusing on emerging policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation. Her previous work … are also, typically, those who have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions. There are also concerns about the …
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Water as a human right?

… in the Lubikon Lake Band Case63 (1990), that oil and gas exploration deprived the Band of its right to live its … global climate has continued to change due to intensified greenhouse gas emissions.79 III. Why link water and human … water management can significantly trigger the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and thereby contribute further to …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… warming in spite of having contributed the least to global greenhouse gas emissions. The study pointed out that these countries are …
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