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UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… fisheries and industrial water users. “I have absolutely no doubt that this User’s Guide will quickly become an … 116 Article 7 | Obligation Not to Cause Significant Harm 117 7.1 Commentary 117 7.1.1 All appropriate measures … Environmental Law and Policy 337. Iza A and Stein R, eds, Rule – Reforming Water Governance (IUCN 2009). Paisely RK, …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 43 3.2.2. No significant harm … environmental protection relate to the principles of no significant harm, protection of watercourses and their ecosystems, …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… utilisation 5. Obligation Not to Cause Significant Harm 6. General Obligation to Cooperate 7. Regular Exchange … and reasonable manner; Duty to prevent significant harm to other riparian states; and Obligation to provide … 5. Obligation Not to Cause Significant Harm Another fundamental principle governing states’ conduct …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Vessel-Based Sources of Marine Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of 1/15,000 of oil cargo). However, exemptions applied if no oil reception facilities were available in the port of … be filled with sea water as ballast. Special areas where no discharges were permitted were declared, including the … is likely to create hazards to human health, to harm living resources and marine life, to damage amenities or …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… and Richard Tapper IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46 IUCN – … has long been recognized that prevention of environmental harm must be “the Golden Rule for the environment”,35 for both eco- logical and …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… their own 2 UNCSD Secretariat, RIO 2012 Issues Briefs. No. 4 Oceans, pp. 3-4. 3 FAO (2011), Global Sustainable … laid down in Part XII are the duty to avoid transboundary harm (article 194(2)) and the duty to conduct environmental … occasions the CECAF meeting was held without observing its rule IV.6, which establishes that a majority of the members …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Regional Seas Agreements

… on 17 July 1983. Land- based pollution presents 80% of harm done to the Mediterranean Sea. To complement pollution … health, interfere with legitimate uses of the waters, or harm the living organisms in the waters, even if there is no conclusive evidence that these adverse impacts will …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

The Law of the Sea

… monitoring and environmental assessment, international rule formation, enforcement, safeguards against inept … or is likely to result in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources and marine life hazard to human …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

UNEP Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… purpose of dealing with climate change issues.16 Although no formal charter exists for AOSIS, the group does have the … �� earth Negotiations Bulletin, aBs-� highlights, vol. �, No. �0�, �� february �00�, at … Negotiations Bulletin, SAICM PrepCom 2 Highlights, vol.��, No.�0�, � october �00�, at http://www.iisd.ca/vol��/ …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Marine Pollution and Ballast Waters

… There are nevertheless some exceptions to this general rule. For instance, MARPOL 73/78 uses a system of special … of areas to be avoided or precautionary areas. As there is no exhaustive list of these measures, states could propose …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater