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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… role of biodiversity in disease transmission or biological control. Finally, biodiversity provides commodities for … play a key role in providing ecosystem services (e.g. flood protection, supply of water and raw materials, genetic … as water yield, water purification, breakdown of wastes, flood control, storm and coastal protection, soil formation …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… phasing out of lead in fuel (Box 5). Traditional pollution control that relies on end-of-pipe technologies has been … Programme 2017b). Environmental technologies that help to control and prevent pollution also bring tremendous trade and … America and the Caribbean. The benefits of water pollution control amounted to 7.4 billion (2015 prices). This includes …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… 43 10 AEOLIAN DESERTIFICATION AND ITS CONTROL IN NORTHER CHINA WANG, TAO … Balkan, as never happened in the last millenium. Apart of flood disaster, the area of the Drina River is recipient of … focus on maintaining the cultural landscape by reducing flood velocity and gully escalation through the use of …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Defenders of the Earth

… group, the FARC.3 Areas previously under guerrilla control are now eyed enviously by extractive companies and … INDUSTRIES AT THE HEART OF THE VIOLENCE Conflicts over the control of land and natural resources were an underlying … web of militias and paramilitary groups are jostling to control the territories it leaves behind. This brings them …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Desertification - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… lands to prevent desertification; Creating regulatory control of deforestation and soil erosion, among others, to …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

B2 - Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Resources in Practice

… Boundary Waters Treaty, each country reserved the right to control the use of waters within its jurisdiction while … the USA. These projects would also provide irrigation and flood control benefits in the USA, all of which would not be … Canada to a lump sum payment for various downstream (flood control) benefits. Canada would also claim half of the …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… of ecosystems” (article 2(2)). In order to prevent, control and reduce transboundary impact, State parties are … obligation contained in article 21 to prevent, reduce and control the pollution of an international watercourse. With … watercourses, natural or artificial reservoirs, springs, flood plains and wetlands in general. The 2014 Japanese Water …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

The Land in Numbers

… ecosystem services such as climate regulation and natural flood defences provided by land, soil and forests or the … natural capital resource, yet demand is spiraling out of control. The absolute minimum arable land required to …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law

… to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction and control respect the environment of other States or of areas beyond national control is now part of the corpus of international law … to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction and control respect the environment of other States or of areas …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Water Law and the Environment

… to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction and control respect the environment of other States or of areas beyond national control is now part of the corpus of international law … to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction and control respect the environment of other States or of areas …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance