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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions? … study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for … important driver for change in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems and mainly concerns synthetic nitrogen and …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… as marshes, peatlands, floodplains, rivers and lakes, and coastal areas such as saltmarshes, mangroves, and seagrass … (e.g., national environmental action plans or national biodiversity strategies and action plans)3. 2. As part of … broad definition (Article 2.1). applies to inland and coastal wetlands: “areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, …
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 2 - United Nations Convention … to specific conditions as provided in article 47. A coastal state’s sovereignty within its territorial sea and … living and non-living resources therein. It also gives the coastal state practically unlimited jurisdiction to prescribe …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… are increasingly becoming polluted and salinised in some coastal areas, particularly as sea levels rise. Alterations … (last visited Oct. 10, 2014). 29 resources and to conserve biodiversity.”69 The agreement’s purpose is to “promote and … surface water basins, groundwater basins, and coastal and marine systems to enable the sharing of benefits …
Regional Fisheries Instruments and Bodies
… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 8 - Regional Fisheries … stocks are not confined to the maritime zones of a single coastal state, management and conservation needs to take … marine ecosystem as a whole. In view of the relatively low biodiversity and the few trophic levels in the Southern …