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MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… so that additions are easily made. It is intended to be a living document, with periodic additions and updates. You are … to environmental protection and conservation. MEAs are living instruments, featuring annual or biennial meetings of … determined characteristic that enhances the ability of an organism to cope with its environment (CBD). Adaptation Fund …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

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

… recognize the impact of pollution in water, air, earth and living beings. Principle 6 of the Declaration proclaims that … that are liable to create hazards to human health, to harm living resources and marine life, to damage amenities or to … risks arising from the import and export of living modified organisms. The Protocol addresses the need to …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… (CBD) defines biodiversity as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia, … future options open for human development. • Use of living materials is such that yield or harvest can be … (vi) introduction of invasive, alien and/or genetically modified species, (vii) restoration. - indirect drivers of …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Multilateral Environmental Agreements - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… need-and-modalities-protocol-safe-transfer-handling-and-use-living-modified http://www.informea.org/treaties/cartagena/summary …
29 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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

… aquifer primarily supplies drinking water to populations living within its area (estimated at 70 million) but is also … world and supports the livelihoods of 60 million people living in the Lower Mekong Basin (which consists of Cambodia, … the area was impaired, 30% of which had been substantially modified from its original condition.68 Today the MDBA lists …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… and land-based pollution, unsustainable exploitation of living and non-living resources, physical impacts by human activities on … instrument exists, namely the London Convention87 as modified by its 1996 Protocol;88 (e) Vessel-source pollution: …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… and water use 68 1.1.3 Functional scope 68 1.1.4 Living resources 69 1.1.5 Navigation 69 1.2 Application 69 … the purpose of the present Article 2 (a). This Article is modified by the word ‘normally’ reflecting the seasonal … - ‘…a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

D2 - Dams, Ecosystems and Fisheries

… are overwhelmingly dependent on the exploitation of living marine resources; and (f) the interests of developing … to the ways that the continuing operations of dams may be modified and adjusted to reduce adverse environmental impacts …
29 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… for inclusion in a Draft Convention for the Protection of Living Resources and Fish- eries from Pollution in the … conservation and manage- ment of cetaceans or other marine living resources or the ecosystem’); IWC Doc. SC/66b/Rep06, … on, or conservation, management or exploitation of, living resources of the sea’.139 When the United Kingdom’s …
29 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance