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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens conditions in the natural … port developers and fisher folk, mining interests (oil, sand, clay, etc.) and riverside communities who conserve … under the EEZA require that those exploring for oil and gas must adhere to the Seismic Code of Conduct which …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… interventions. Desert areas, huge holes in land, water pollution (fresh and sea water), changing the course of … Projects such as construction of hydroelectric dams, oil and bio fuel plantations, massive irrigation systems, and … human rights standards. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is a not-for-profit body comprising stakeholders …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… in the Convention is the development of systems of pollution inventories or registers. These mechanisms for … IN ARTICLE 6, PARAGRAPH 1 (a) 1. Energy sector: • Mineral oil and gas refineries; • Installations for gasification and … cubic metres. 14. Pipelines for the transport of gas, oil or chemicals with a diameter of more than 800 mm and a …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… the quality of the environment, including air and water; pollution, waste, chemicals and other potentially harmful … quality, the global climate, freshwater quality, marine pollution, waste, toxic substances, protected areas, conser- … art. 3 (1). 22 For example, a decision to allow massive oil pollution in the pursuit of economic de- velopment could …
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
… energy demands, rapid urbanization, and air and water pollution. The Guide is an essential reference for … • A workshop on possible responses to remedy and clean up oil spills, an important issue for oil-producing countries.149 • The production of a television …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… on Human and Peoples’ Rights has decided cases concerning pollution and the exclusion of indigenous peoples from their … Peoples’ Rights concluded that “an environment degraded by pollution and defaced by the destruction of all beauty and … corporations that infringe on human rights through oil pollution, and then to ensure that there is an “adequate …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… management issues, implying that current degradation and pollution, as well as the pressure on natural resources … of migratory species, air masses, electromagnetic waves or oil and gas deposits that cross over state borders into other … the proposed activity is to be carried out. 123 Oil refineries; thermal power plants and other combustion …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… in sewage runoff, and industrial and agricultural pollution. These factors will place additional stress on how … number of factories in Jordan, hosting Jordan’s only oil refinery; the environmental, social, and agricultural … new water-intensive industrial uses, such as biofuels and oil sands refining.19 2.3 Climate change projections, drivers …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… Council under the Environmental Protection and Pollution Control Act. In Tanzania, where a project or … law and the empowerment of the poor 267 from off-shore oil and gas leases into a fund for acquisition of lands for … over-use. Natural resource damage provisions of the US oil spill and hazardous waste law, for instance, tie damages …