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Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… goals and explicitly address tensions and potential trade- offs among them. In 2015, the International Council … 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unreg- ulated fishing and destructive … and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that con- tribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from …
UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
… United Nations Environment Programme, nor does citing of trade names or commercial processes constitute endorsement. … Manila Bulletin 13 January 2008, available at: http://www.illegal- logging.info/item_single.php?it_id=2492&it=news. 194 … nature conservation, including biodiversity and related to illegal fishery and the tracking and trading of endangered …
Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
… with economies in transition by increasing aid, opening trade to exports from developing countries and countries with … to monitor shipments of hazardous wastes and to detect illegal shipments of such wastes. Addressing such aspects of … it two important benefits. Firstly, enhanced detection of illegal shipments prevents improper disposal of hazardous …
Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development
… protection and management of land, urban sprawl owing to illegal construction and gentrification of coasts, and … of crops and indigenous breeds from: • Overexploitation or illegal use of water and other natural resources • Habitat … and natural capital and externalities ➢ Inefficient trade markets and cooperation at regional level ➢ Low level …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 ARTICLE 38: TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … 9(2) of the Bamako Convention (1991) which deem the illegal transfer of hazardous waste to be a criminal offence. … effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… agricultural commodities to revive agricultural trade and stimulate agricultural and rural development. Other … procedure to protect the right to freedom used to prevent illegal detentions. Instead of guaranteeing solely individual … series of limitations on deforestation and aims to reduce illegal deforestation rates in Brazil, explicitly noting that …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… within pastoral drylands requires reform of international trade policies that distort agricultural markets and … Similarly, in Ethiopia the unofficial trade and illegal cross-border sales were estimated at USD 138 million … Conservation Act made all residence and grazing in GCAs illegal, and although safeguards meant to protect village …
GEO yearbook 2003
… Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade enters into force. The International Convention for the … agree to strengthen wildlife management, combat illegal trafficking and update the trade rules for a wide … improperly operated municipal waste disposal sites, and in illegal dumping (OECD 2004). TRANSPORT: FULL-COST PRICING …
Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management
… challenge, involving difficult judgments on the trade-offs that occur between tourism development, the … have dramatically reduced the level of destructive and illegal fishing techniques. The project is designed so that … importance of many values. As a result, there has been no illegal mining or garbage dumping. However, there is still a …
Energy law and sustainable development
… that characterize the debate over the liberalized trade sector and the environment sector. For proposals to … into the park which already faced intense pressures from illegal logging and slash-and-burn colonizing. While the … stick again in 2000, to the US it was again viewed as an illegal cartel. OPEC did move closer to the image of a …