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Global Land Outlook
… jeopardize the health and productivity of land: higher carbon emissions and temperatures, changing rainfall … poor countries, food loss is primarily due to the lack of storage and transport while in wealthy nations, food waste is … require shifts away from resource-intensive production, carbon-intensive processing and transport, land-intensive …
Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit
… of synthetic organic chemicals, characterized by multiple carbon-chlorine bonds, high chemical stability and high … POPs sources, e.g., near underground or above-ground storage tanks. Stage 2 focuses on probable contaminated areas … PCA pentachloroethane, HCBD, HCB, PeCB, dioxin, HCH, PCE, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform. A health risk assessment …
Developing a Global Soil Regime
… including payments for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration; water conservation for preventing … Biological Diversity and, in terms of significance of soil carbon sequestration, the Framework Convention on Climate … ecosystem resilience and health, including carbon storage and restoring 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems.86 …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… linkages between ecosystem functions and services (such as carbon uptake and storage, climatic stabilization and watershed protection, and … between ecosystem • functions and services (such as carbon uptake and storage, climatic stabilization and …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… National Aspects of a Legislative Framework to Manage Soil Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, An Interdisciplinary, … integrity of soil against dangers from the production, storage, use, spillage and disposal of particular hazardous … of past and present human activity (terracing, water storage or drainage structures, roads and buildings, etc.). …