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Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to participate in treaty-making and to claim certain rights can only go as far as States have empowered it to do … importance of a functioning environment for development, human well-being and other objectives of international … implementation of a treaty it is indispensable to assure human and financial resources and set political priorities …
01 Sep 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law

… the procedural rules necessary to preserve the equality of rights between the parties to allocation of water quantities … is the largest source of fresh water available for human use, constituting around 30.8% of all fresh water on … and has been the same for billions of years; while 2. The human population continues to increase. The UN forecasts that …
01 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… capacity of ecosystems to produces goods and services for human benefit. Methodology: The class first illustrates the … 1972 Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration). With regard to … enable PES contracts, secure ownership and tenure rights, and ensure monitoring and enforcement (UN, 2014). …
01 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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

… they play in the natural environment, and the effects that human activity can have on those processes. Building on part … cycle, groundwater resources are often threatened by human activities, such as destruction of the aquifer matrix, … withdraw water from the aquifer and all authorizations and rights to make a withdrawal under this Act shall be limited …
01 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… 6 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2003). Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for Assessment. Island Press. … life support systems and maintaining future options for human development); • Ecosystem, species and genetic … activity result in changes to the access to, and/or rights over biological resources? To facilitate the …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compliance under biodiversity - related conventions

… for food and agriculture: benefit-sharing and farmers’ rights CITES (1): evolutionary regime • From controlling … cross-compliance avenues? • Inter-American Court on Human Rights: from Saramaka (2007) to Kaliña and Lokono (2015) • …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Introductory presentation to the SEA Protocol

… Protocol places a special emphasis on the consideration of human health, going beyond existing legislation in the … (Art. 2.7) Any effect, on the environment, including human health, flora, fauna, biodiversity, soil, climate, air, …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Sources of international law (Part II) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… only to its parties and it does not create either rights or obligations for a third state without its consent, … mentioned in relation to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Namely, the provisions of the declaration, although …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… three criteria: low-income (under $750 per capita), weak human resources (nutrition, health, education and literacy) … The Africa Group also led the charge to incorporate human rights into the Basel Convention.31 Under the …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compliance under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

… 180 Parties) share the common objective of protecting human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals and …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance