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Dramatic growth in laws to protect environment, but widespread failure to enforce, finds report

24 Jan 2019 News in

Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1.4 The Convention on Access to Information, … and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife … future policymaking. In Burkina Faso, for instance, the Forest Code requires that the national forestry policy …
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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… also the stewards of natural resources and guardians of biodiversity. This has brought increased interest to … (from replacing instead of improving the remaining forest and its management), and the impacts on the … a precedent-setting directive re-affirming the rights of forest-dwelling indigenous or tribal peoples, including their …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… Each year we are losing over 5 million hectares of forest, and an estimated 10,000 distinct species. Climate … achieving justice and equality, and halting loss of biodiversity. These goals are the most ambitious targets for … managing the process. 69 Joint ANZECC / MCFFA National Forest Policy Statement Implementation Sub-committee (1997). …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… being promoted as a methodology that integrates the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy … categories of ecosystems: marine, coastal, inland water, forest, dryland, island, mountain, polar, cultivated, and … cycle. This can be illustrated particularly in forest, mountainous, and dryland ecosystems. Forests are …
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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… level for their efforts in environmental and agricultural biodiversity protection, as keepers of traditional knowedge … published about traditional knowledge and relevance to biodiversity and development, e.g. authored by Abramovitz for … Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the Global Biodiversity Strategy: Policy-makers' Guide produced by the …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… built and the earth is cultivated using water, soil and biodiversity. In this respect, each one of us lives within a … naturally established between water, flora (mostly forest), soil, subsoil and fauna, and among these resources … of Germany. Facts The Danube, has its source in the Black Forest in Germany, and flows through the Jura Mountains in …
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Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual

… in capacity building for community forestry and devolved forest management in Asia - Pacific. Beginning as a knowledge … forestry, address the impacts of climate change, transform forest conflict and secure sustainable livelihoods for … ƒ Land law ƒ Agriculture law ƒ Protected areas law ƒ Biodiversity law, including access to genetic resources ƒ …
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Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… across a wide range of sectors, including air, water, biodiversity, waste management, chemicals, and horizontal … manifested in problems such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, soil erosion, decreasing quality and … growing population and extension of agricultural land into forest and other ecologically sensitive areas. Consequently, …
01 Sep 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

The Aarhus Convention: An implementation guide. Securing the public's rights through access to information, public participation and Access to justice for a healthy environment

… facing our world today, including climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty reduction, increasing energy … non-binding instruments: the Rio Declaration, the UNCED Forest Principles and Agenda 21: Programme of Action for … designated protected areas, but also, for example, a forest, a tree or a park that is of localized significance, …
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