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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… Stipa Photo credits Front cover: main image © Dave Currey/ Environmental Investigation Agency. Box, clockwise from left: … hazardous qualities, their potential for misuse, or their impact on biodiversity or species. Such items include banned … e-learning courses—such as those on Customs controls, risk assessment, profiling and selectivity— Green Customs Guide 11 …
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… and urbanization rates in addition to the impact of climate change and … reduce poverty and enhance environmental … stakeholder initiatives in support of a national legal assessment exercise to validate findings, highlight gaps … overall current regulatory framework and assess the impact of recent developments in other areas related …
Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
… wider land- scape and as such are responsible for their impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services and how this … three in this list are already included in nu- merous environmental standards, safeguard poli- cies and … as- sessed through the application of a standardized risk assessment methodology.5 Five criteria (A to E - figure 2) …
Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual
… Partnership ■■ IGRAC – International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre ■■ imawesa – Improved Management of … (GDEs) 8 10.5 Groundwater over-abstraction 10 10.6 Environmental aspects of groundwater management 11 10.7 The … appreciated that there are many issues that TBOs face that impact on groundwater management, but which fall outside the …
Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… of values. b) Pressures on Biodiversity Analysing the impact of threats to biodiversity with the aspiration to be a … through the work our GSP Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment Unit. This has covered the value of wetlands to … indicators for the 2015 Millennium Development Goal 7 on environmental sustainability. As a result, all countries of …
Manual for the National Focal Points for CMS and its Instruments
… CONSCIOUS of the ever-growing value of wild animals from environmental, ecological, genetic, scientific, aesthetic, … to the budget in accordance with the UN scale of assessment as agreed by the UN General Assembly adjusted to … same issue, often help to generate political momentum, add impact to the efforts and avoid unnecessary duplication of …
Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual
… of this Manual. Enrique Ibarra, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hemant Ojha, Forest Action … natural resource stakeholders continue to have significant impact on natural resource governance. Stakeholders at sub- … and Structure of Trainers’ Manual 11 4. Monitoring, Self-assessment and Training Evaluation 19 5. Things to Consider …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… in land‐related disputes in Sierra Leone Analytical Assessment within the framework of the Voluntary Guidelines … (NMA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have also been … as mineral exploitation and environmental protection. Generally, these … large‐scale agriculture or mining activities inevitably impact tenure rights in the course of their …
Statutes, including rules of procedures of the World Conservation Congress, and Regulations
… governments and international agencies so as to influence environmental policies; (j) assists in the development of mechanisms for debating and resolving international environmental issues; (k) contributes to the preparation of … the World Congress may reasonably be expected to have an impact; (c) "Could not have been foreseen" means a matter …