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Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements

… I of the Kyoto Protocol towards meeting their binding emission reduction and limitation commitments (UNFCCC). CFCs … Impact Assessment EMG Environmental Management Group Emission-reduction Unit A unit equal to one metric tonne of … policies, laws 49 Indigenous people/s No universal, standard definition. Usually considered to include cultural …
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Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… law. Additionally, most national laws apply a standard approach regarding potential conflicts between … to ensure that COP-6 could open a market for a Certified Emission Reduction under the CDM. Prepar ing for Negot iat … Protocol, one member state requested that its baseline emission of CO2 should be adjusted because the State in the …
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The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements’ Conference of the Parties and its validity

… UNFCCC. 62 As above. 63 For example, variations to carbon emission targets in the Kyoto Protocol. 64 CoP 12. A summary … to Anns. II-IV, which concern matters such as sulphur emission ceilings and percentage emission reductions); … these decisions could be conceptualised within the standard framework as covered by ‘general consent’. However, …
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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… soil containing polychlorinated biphe- nyls (PCBs). The emission intensity of dioxin in waste incineration, steel … all stages of a product’s life, is becoming the new standard. “Rather than judging against a few basic criteria, … Actors and Business: A Quantitative Assessment of their Emission Reduction Impact 2014 marked the evolution of UNEP’s …
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Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives

… assigned amounts, calculated pursuant to their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments inscribed in … the right to life, the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, food, adequate …
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Third report on the protection of the atmosphere

… 53 19. In its previous work analysing the due diligence standard, the Commission considered it to be “a diligence … possible to distinguish the contribution of individual emission sources or groups of sources”. Notwithstanding that … change”. 277 To combat global warming, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases is the primary solution. 278 …
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Sources of international water law

… indication or reference to freshwaters which meet the standard illustrated at the outset of this Foreword, or to a … measures, in order to ensure, inter alia that: (a) the emission of pollutants is prevented, controlled and reduced … is minimized. 2. To this end, each Party shall set emission limits for discharges from point sources into …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… The first approach prescribes a specific quality standard for a particular watercourse, effectively … techniques for providing in principle the basis for emission limit values designed to prevent and, where that is … in relation to a discharge of a contaminant or an emission of noise, means the best method for preventing or …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… of the no significant harm rule, the same evidentiary standard is typically required to establish the degree of … explicitly impose the “may cause significant harm” standard in their provisions related to the prevention, … For example, in seeking to implement a no significant harm standard to activities related to the utilization of a …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… provisions call for harmonized domestic regulations for emission limits and standards (Article 7(5)(a)), harmonized … out various forms of environmental assessment as its standard procedure for ensuring satisfactory environmental … in the prevention and mitigation of forest fire and other emission sources; • Establish a mechanism for co-operation in …
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