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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… her due to her struggle against the Agua Zarca dam. Global Witness highlighted her courageous work in How Many … is illegal,4 and accounts for 25% of illegal wood5 on global markets. Much of this is being sold on to buyers in … The World Bank (2004), Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy. Available from: http://www- …
International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review
… the methods that are used to assess the effectiveness of global MEAs. She focuses in par- ticular on regular reviews … Kohler, examines compliance with- in the context of three global conventions aimed at protecting human health and the … 31 Sylvia Bankobeza the Parties agreed to a ten-year strategy, running up to 2020, to tackle biodiversity loss. …
Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… regional levels. Some have a few Parties; some have almost global participation. It has been said that environmental … for dealing with threats to liv- ing natural resources, global common resources, and the marine environment. Many of … Convention on Climate Change represents an example of this strategy. The Kyoto Protocol had two requirements for entry …
Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… human health and welfare of living species. Research on global material flows and material and environmental … of chemicals and waste. They can be both based on global and regional environmental agreements, or direct … actions. The five principles that underpin the proposed global action agenda – universality, inclusiveness, …
MEA Negotiator’s Handbook
… Conference. Stockholm was the fi rst of the major global conferences. It was the beginning of a ’new journey of hope’ where we put the environment fi rmly on the global agenda. It strikes me that it would have been very … 3.6.2.1. Interventions As noted in 3.4.1.1 on drafting strategy, it is important in a meeting to intervene only as …
Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… which have been hitherto limited and inadequate. 2.1 Global and regional environmental agreements and national … forward in tackling air pollution, as the root causes of global warming and air pollution largely overlap. Addressing … to business as usual, in the form of a business strategy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… overexploitation of resources and many forms of pollution. Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 demonstrates that, by and … Millennium Development Goals NBSAP: National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan NEN: National Ecological Network … can affect a driver of change varies from local to global, and may work at widely different time scales. …
Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders
… in New York. 3. H o s t i l e e n v i r o n m e n t As the global demand for natural resources grows, the environment is … for assassination. The scale of killings indicates a truly global crisis. Despite the complexity of quantifying the … making processes ; criminalization used as a political strategy to deter resistance and delegitimize their work; …
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report
… to South Africa (ZAF1/2016) dated 31 May 2016. 5 Global Witness, On Dangerous Ground (2016). Available from … rights defenders. III. Hostile environment 24. As the global demand for natural resources grows, the environment is … processes; criminalization used as a political strategy to deter resistance and delegitimize their work; …
Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Introduction to Environmental Governance ORGANIZATIONS GLOBAL TREATIES UN ROTTERDAM STOCKHOLMBASEL CITES UNFCCC … International Environmental Governance (IEG) comprises global and regional environmental agreements; decisions and … processes directly through its own environmental strategy and indirectly through the implications of its …