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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
… COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … be found in target 15.1 (by 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… 5.4 Protecting wildlife from harmful processes and land uses 5.5 Wildlife health 5.6 Human-wildlife conflicts 55 … (ownership and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife … It focuses exclusively on the identification and restoration of species that have reached critically low …
International water governance: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems Vol. 1: International agreements compilation and analysis
… and species, freshwater and forests, and freshwater and land uses and soils. This is why relevant instruments on … assist the Contracting Parties to minimise the impacts of land-use projects on wetlands and their biodiversity; n … water regimes to conserve wetlands; n protection on restoration of wetlands and biodiversity; n management of …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… Development Bank AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use AMCOW African Ministers’ Council on Water CBD … 6 Lao PDR Lao People’s Democratic Republic LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry MDBA Murray-Darling … change, because forests can act as carbon sinks; their restoration and preservation is one of the feasible ways to …
Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
… reduce emissions and releases of mercury to air, water and land and the impact of such emissions and releases on the … mercury compounds, often expressed as “total mercury”, to land and water from the relevant point sources not addressed … health promotion, thereby minimizing the need for dental restoration; (ii) Setting national objectives aiming at …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… advice provided by Jacob J. Burke, Senior Officer in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO, on points of … purposes of this Convention: (a) "desertification" means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub- humid areas … impact; (d) To ensure conservation and, where necessary, restoration of ecosystems. 3. Measures for the prevention, …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… guidance to the financial mechanism; (b) mechanisms; (c) land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF); and (d) compliance, … Additionally, the Secretariat may provide funding for restoration projects within available resources in its …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… and sustainable use of renewable resources 8 2.1 Land, soil and water 8 2.2 Species and genetic diversity 9 … management of natural resources such as soil and land, air and water, and biological resources. It also … for non-living natural resources, espe- cially water, land and soil, adds to the biodiversity conservation …
Regional Seas Agreements
… joint action to mitigate the impacts of pollution from land- based activities or from other sources. … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land- Based Sources was adopted on 17 May 1980 and entered into force on 17 July 1983. Land- based pollution presents 80% of harm done to the …
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… a number of conventions dealing with matters related to land degradation, desertification and/or drought, such as the … focusing specifically on the problem of desertification, land degradation and drought is the United Nations Convention … objectives that relate to the integrated development of land, control of soil erosion, deforestation, reclamation of …