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… looking at specific transboundary water basins, while land and soil pollution is indirectly addressed by the United … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, global and regional … and consume (Goal 12) and our ability to reduce resource degradation, pollution and waste. Indeed, environmental …

… 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 …

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … environmental disasters and more long-term environmental degradation, which produce life-threatening diseases. … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …

… conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …

… better livelihoods through conservation rather than from degradation of such resources. This is well articulated in … of India of ecosystems. For instance, when forest land is diverted or Afforestation (CA) over at least equal land area as the diverted forest land. In addition, a Net …

… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … in the region. Legislation is necessary to stop their degradation and destruction. In planning for their … Nations may join the Convention. Where a country, for neutrality or other reasons, does not belong to the UN …

… Agreements’, in Helle T. Anker and Ellen M. Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF … assisting devel- oping countries to reverse environmental degradation and implement a number of 36 See, for instance, … in Helle Tegner Anker and Ellen Margrethe Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF …

… the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and brought together scienti!c, economic, and … rights regarding access to biological resources on private land or to create speci!c rights over the genetic resources … knowledge or any other intended activity on their land occurs according to their customary laws. Overall, BCPs …

… cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. and knowledge regarding the extent of the …