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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- …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …