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Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles

… and institutional system to approve CDM AR projects 47 4. Land rights issues, title to carbon and the nature of CERs 49 … particular legal issues. These issues mainly centre around land tenure, land use rights and the subsequent ownership of cer- …
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The UNCCD: Laying the groundwork for future security (2014-2015)

… we face are complex. But by better implementing good land management practices, we can simultaneously help … and secure sustainable agricultural and energy production. Land truly is the glue that holds our societies together. Reversing the effects of land degradation and desertification through sustainable land
14 Aug 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… government authorities alone to administer the law of the land is insufficient to secure the objectives, unless there … factors of the surroundings of human beings including land, soil, water, atmosphere, climate, sound, odours, tastes … Soil Pollution 44 Noise Pollution 44 Mineral Extraction 45 Land Degradation 47 Energy 49 Waste: Solid Waste, Toxic and …
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EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation

… Assessment (SEA), Appropriate Assessments (AA) and land use planning documents. Ecological networks, as one of … in the 1970s and 1980s, in countries where a strong land use planning tradition had created the institutional … and particularly those caused by inappropriate forms of land use. This function therefore permits in principle a …
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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… looking at specific transboundary water basins, while land and soil pollution is indirectly addressed by the United … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, global and regional … goods and services, such as those from oceans, rivers, land, wetlands, and others result in the a An ongoing …
14 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Protected Areas in East Asia: Evaluating and strengthening implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas and the East Asian Regional Action Plan

… Korea) and Mongolia (Figure.1). This region has a combined land area of 11.79 million km2 and constitutes a large and … plateau, its highest peaks, and some of its deepest land depressions and most extreme deserts. Asia makes up 20% of the world’s land mass has very high biodiversity, and protected areas …
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Biodiversity Planning Law. International and National

… and ex situ, including through ecosystem management and land use policies, as well as for the fair and equitable … agreement also contains specific provisions in relation to land-use planning. While the emphasis is on natural … give particular attention to the national allocation of land usage. They shall endeavour to take the necessary …
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State of Biodiversity in West Asia

… West Asia occupy only 1.34 per cent of West Asia’s total land area (Global Environment Outlook – GEO-4, 2007)5 but … dominated by limited water resources, a scarcity of arable land, fragile ecosystems and episodic droughts. The … agriculture systems and the cultivation of marginal land to meet population needs. This has resulted in an …
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The Minamata Convention on Mercury and its implementation in the Latin America and Caribbean region

… President, Suriname), Judith Torres (Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment, Uruguay), Luis Chinchay … (Art. 7) Emissions to air (Art. 8) Releases to water and land (Art. 9) Environmentally sound interim storage of … atmospheric deposition of mercury was 3,200 tons/year to land and 3,700 tons/year to the oceans. However, much of the …
14 Aug 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste