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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… Trade UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … guide on how to implement the Protocol at the national level. Rather it attempts to provide an accessible … nological processes not yet identified but which may give rise to novel combinations of genetic material through the …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

The burden of proof in natural resources legislation: Some critical issues for fisheries law

… law or from a treaty such as the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention (hereafter referred to as the 1982 UN … doubt" -this is known as the standard of proof- the level of proof which is required.1 Under the Napoleonic … have been caught within those waters. This approach gives rise to some unease among parliamentary draftsmen because the …
21 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

… resource law and policy. However, at a multilateral level, it is very widely incorporated in biodiversity … of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and … several comprehensive analyses available of the “meteoric” rise of the precautionary principle in environmental law and …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of progressive realisation and non-regression National level 1. Cooperation, and Common but Differentiated … Tuna Case, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (“ITLOS”) could not conclusively assess the scientific … perhaps better be considered an overarching aim that gives rise to a multitude of legal mechanisms, including prior …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Instrumental level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these resources. … survey and other objective assessment indicators gave rise to a debate among members of the team on the issue of …
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