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C1 - No Significant Harm, Pollution Prevention and Quality Standards

… significant harm is an obligation of conduct based on the standard of due diligence. The appropriateness of the … through the licencing of wastewater discharges indicating emission limits (based on best available techniques) and the … joint water quality objectives and criteria, elaborate emission limits for pollutants, elaborate joint monitoring …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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

… policy, act or rules (Figure 16); and 104 had vehicle emission standards (Figure 17) (United Nations Environment … energy efficiency Clean production incentives Vehicle emission standards Fuel sulfur content Public transport …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Transitioning to a pollution-free planet

… evidence exists to advance risk reduction action • Enforce emission and release standards if in place, establish … world. Cities, which have both a high concentration of emission sources and a high density of people, feel keenly … other policies including regulatory measures, such as emission standards, and information tools, such as labelling …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… to little more than an expression of intent, with no clear standard for compliance, and much room for interpretation and … as obligations of result, or obligations of method. Emission reductions are obligations of result and unless the … (IET ) regime allows Parties with targets to buy and sell emission credits among themselves; the Clean Development …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report

… rights”, including the rights to life, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standard of health. The Declaration requested the Human … implementation of the intended contributions would lead to emission levels in 2030 that will likely cause a global …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… drains, underground injections) as well as diffuse emission (agriculture, traffic) have a wide area of impact as … and sources of environmental deterioration focuses on standard agenda and symptoms of environmental deterioration … of routes to foraging areas of bats), road mortality, emission into air and water, hydrological changes and …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… data submitted by states, usually on the basis of uniform standard criteria laid down by expert committees under the … 88 to a ‘critical loads’ approach.89 According to it, emission reduction targets are tailored to the ecological … system in respect of controlled products, setting up emission standards, banning or controlling the use of certain …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… as well as the adoption of strategies and policies. Emission limits and other product or process standards, the … http://leo.informea.org/terms/emission Preventive mechanisms One obligation that flows from … conducted Environmental Impact Assessment might serve as a standard for determining whether or not due diligence was …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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

… right to water, as part of the human right to an adequate standard of living.181 Although the precise content of the … agreement’s equivalent of the “equitable and reasonable” standard involves a situation subject to an MEA. Developments … a State has violated the right to life or an adequate standard of living. This issue is directly relevant to the …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… is a model work and will, undoubtedly, become the standard training manual in the field for the UN Watercourses … of three domains:208 (1) Need | Mitigation strategies and emission caps should leave room for eradicating poverty and … quo right by maintaining the relative differences in emission levels between them.210 Applying a horizontal …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater