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Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… 14), “conserve and sus- tainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”, which will be … Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce ma- rine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 ARTICLE 30: POLLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Member of the International Law Commission; Ambassador for Marine Conservation Mohammed Abdelwahab-Beckeshi (Algeria) - … (United States) - High Seas Policy Advisor, IUCN Global Marine Programme Lothar Gündling (Germany) - International …
Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development
… 19 Objective 1: Ensuring sustainable development in marine and coastal areas 26 Objective 2: Promoting resource … Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the … to the ocean, and therefore particularly sensitive to pollution. In addition, its mild climate makes it home to a …
GEO yearbook 2003
… Caused by Natural Hazards 87 Biodiversity 88 Coastal and Marine Areas 89 Freshwater 90 Urban Areas 91 Global … introduced some new indicators, including on air quality, marine protected areas, and ozone protection. UNEP is more … sites, and reducing disturbances, habitat loss and pollution. The seventh meeting of the Conference of the …
UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
… agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, fisheries and marine/coastal areas, sustainable tourism, energy and climate … 108 3.5 Marine/Coastal … and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and … technological development so as to prevent environmental pollution and maintain ecological equilibrium. All provisions …
Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals
… research in order to prevent, eliminate and reduce pollution of the marine environment. On the other hand, 40 showed some … within safe biological limits, the overexploitation of marine fisheries reached a new peak in 2008. According to the …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… UNEP has long been involved in the field of fresh and marine water and has developed a number of programmes and … greater than the energy crisis faces us: the depletion and pollution of the planet’s limited supply of fresh water. Its … rain-, surface- and ground waters, and coastal and marine waters. The importance of environmental aspects stems …
Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management
… Service Unit of IUCN, 1998, xii + 52pp. Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas. No. 3. Graeme Kelleher, 1999, xxiv + … Bernard Back: Ferry at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia, ©Paul F. J. Eagles; Birding in … � reduced infant mortality; � elimination of water and air pollution; � increased access to recreation sites, protected …
Energy law and sustainable development
… the 1979 Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and its Protocols. 1302 U.N.T.S. 217, 18 I.L.M. … developing countries more vulnerable, and air, water and marine pollution continue to rob millions of a decent life." … the formation of Antarctic bottom water. The impact on marine ecosystems and fisheries could be severe because the …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… 5.4.1. Nutrient and pollution reduction in the Black Sea “dead zone”..........91 … Waters focus area includes both freshwater and marine systems and was established to assist countries to … surface water basins, groundwater basins, and coastal and marine systems to enable the sharing of benefits from their …