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Transitioning to a pollution-free planet

… hazardous pollutants, and pollution of air, water and land that emanates from man-made activity and that degrades … ii. Areas of pollution (air, water, marine and coastal, land/soil) including the cross-cutting categories of … regulatory frameworks, education and public participation, land and resource rights are key to effective actions and …
02 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… V/6 of 2000 Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris Convention), the 1979 Convention on … of natural ecosystems. Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… aquifer. It can also result in the subsidence of overlying land, which can destroy the storage and transmission … negatively affected. Further, contamination from various land-based human activities, such as, agricultural, … of aquifer pollution; (h) direct the owner or occupier of land to seal off any borehole situated on the land – (i) …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

E2 - Prevention of Aquifer Pollution

… will discuss how the whole array of actors involved in land-use and pollution management has to be involved in … reducing animal- grazing intensity, and regulating land reclamation and drainage. The class will also discuss the use of land surface zoning and the creation of protected areas, …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Environment Programme of age; nutrient over-enrichment of land and water is causing shifts in ecosystems and loss of … and transport, and release from melting permafrosts. 1.2 Land and soil pollution product of poor agricultural … is an increasing concern with the growth in demand for land for food production, housing and nature conservation, …
02 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human … defenders has found that human rights defenders working on land rights and natural resources are the second largest …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders

… have defined environmental activities related to land and environmental construction and development … by greater competition for natural resources communities' land by private, business or state actors at n in search of a … human rights relating to the environment, water, air, land, environmental human rights defenders as “defenders …
02 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… Antarctica, for example is considered terra nullius or land that is not the sovereign territory of any country, like … • climate change • international waters • ozone • land degradation • persistent organic pollutants Capacity … meeting, the Instrument was amended to allow POPs and Land Degradation as focal areas. • Representatives of the GEF …
02 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Preamble para. 5), and the 2001 Stockholm … http://informea.org/treaties/land-based … or other local communities may exercise over their land and waterways or which enable indigenous or other local …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… sources. These include: regulation of agricultural land use and practices regulation of the siting and operation of landfills and waste dumps regulation of urban land development, as regards the control of stormwater runoff … or surface waters. Also regulated are changes in land cultivation, and the application and storage of …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance