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

24 Jan 2019 News in

Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… management issues, implying that current degradation and pollution, as well as the pressure on natural resources … to control specific sources and to ban certain types of pollution. The 1997 Convention specifies that “Watercourse … improved water management, including methods for pollution control and the adoption of other conservation …
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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 … would seem to cover hazards caused by degradation or pollution of the natural environment, such as exposure to …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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 … to establish the devel- opment of a possible instrument on pollution inventories or registers as one of the pri- orities … This provision re- flects the approach taken to integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC), recognizing that the …
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Women’s participation and gender considerations in country representation, planning and reporting to the BRS Conventions

… Facility (GEF)/ Small Grants Programme (SGP) Pesticides Pollution Project in two regions, conducting workshops to … on the need to protect the environment from pesticide pollution. Based on their initial NIPs, OECD and non-OECD … partly because of poor infrastructure and indoor air pollution. The lack of awareness on the harmful effects of …
18 Jun 2026 Document

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 … ILO International Labour Organization IPPC integrated pollution prevention and control ISO International … takes an affirmative approach to the development of pollution inventories or registers, which have been highly …
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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- … 3 (1). 22 For example, a decision to allow massive oil pollution in the pursuit of economic de- velopment could not …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… in sewage runoff, and industrial and agricultural pollution. These factors will place additional stress on how … to affect water quality and exacerbate many forms of water pollution. These impacts will have negative impacts on … be supported by natural infrastructure to minimise source pollution. The main focus of this chapter is to better …
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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 … physical destruction and alteration of habitats, marine pollution, introduction of exotic species and overuse of … of human induced mortality of the dolphins is caused by: pollution, marine mining, boat strikes, disease and tidal …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 1) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… The 1979 Convention on Long- Range Transboundary Air Pollution reproduces Principle 21 stating that it "expresses …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance