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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… protocols 5 1.5 Benefits and importance 6 Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in both protected areas and beyond 6 … of the environment have contributed to conservation and sustainable use of some of the remaining ecosystems found …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… its own activities. This report is printed on paper from sustainable forests including recycled fibre. The paper is … OHCHR-UNEP Joint Side Event “Human Rights at the Center of Sustainable Development - Honoring Rio Principle 1” United … and (2) the substantive content of norms regulating the use of power over persons and resources. Throughout, …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… independent analyst, author and consultant in the field of sustainable development. Wendy has worked for over 20 years … interest in social processes that shape patterns of land use. Before joining WCS he was the Monitoring and Evaluation … embodies the highest aspirations for a healthy planet and sustainable, fulfilling and dignified human livelihoods. One …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… its own activities. This report is printed on paper from sustainable forests including recycled fibre. The paper is … compendium is to present good practices relating to the use of human rights obligations and commitments to inform, … relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment with a mandate to, among other …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… in the Millennium Summit and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The overall aim of an RBA to … their rights in the context of nature and natural resource use. 4. Incorporate guidelines and tools in project and … rights of local people in the context of conservation and sustainable resource use.” I hope that this publication will …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… shared priorities for accelerated progress towards sustainable development1. These are particularly salient for … 12 iii. Mandate 13 Fundamental Rights and Freedoms 14 Sustainable Development 14 Gender Equality and Women’s … We commit to actively promote the collection, analysis and use of gender equality indicators and sex-disaggregated data …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… that “efforts to provide an effective legal framework for sustainable development should be oriented towards improving … and law-applying in the field of environment and sustainable development.” Most recently, the Johannesburg … to apply customary law with respect to, inter alia, the use and exploitation of land and the management of natural …
Water as a human right?
… integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecolo- gically sustainable. The World Conservation Union builds on the … in policies in order to eradicate poverty and to enhance sustainable development 24 IV. Content of a right to water …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… that they bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development in view of the pressures their … degree of responsibility in the international pursuit of sustainable development. In practical terms, the concept of … limits and other product or process standards, the use of best available techniques and similar techniques can …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… its own activities. This report is printed on paper from sustainable forests including recycled fibre. The paper is … Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial … Convention on Co-operation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the River Danube …