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Offshore Hydrocarbon and Mineral Recovery - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… your certificate. Book - Unit 6 - Offshore Hydrocarbon and Mineral Recovery Book - Unit 6 - Offshore Hydrocarbon and Mineral Recovery Site: UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION PORTAL ON … Pollution Book: Book - Unit 6 - Offshore Hydrocarbon and Mineral Recovery https://elearning.informea.org/ …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… them particularly exposed to land grabbing for natural resource exploitation. In 2015, almost 40% of victims were … rights as well as tackling corruption and illegalities in resource exploitation. Above: Julia Francisco Martinez’s … HIT BY MINING CONFLICTS The Philippines is one of the most mineral-rich countries in the world with large reserves of …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… 1. Key points Groundwater is a critical freshwater resource worldwide that is indispensable to community … the mining of an aquifer’s matrix (for its hydrocarbon or mineral content) also results in the destruction of an … impacts. Many states view groundwater as a fixed natural resource that is “owned” by the nation under which it is …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Introduction to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … marine scientific research, others prefer to treat it as a resource activity. 2. Impact of human activities All of these … that they are a common property and renewable natural resource that moves around freely. Failure to regulate will …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

The Law of the Sea

22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Large Marine Ecosystem Mechanisms

22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

… coastal states’ legal continental shelves. The non-living mineral resources in the area are part of the common heritage …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

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

… to drafting a legal framework for governing the water resource, determining information relating to particular … into Guarani; a law allowing Indigenous Peoples to exploit mineral water;335 creation of national standing committees; … pollution, industrial pollution, pollution from mineral extraction, forests and hazardous chemicals and …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

… concluded that those working on land rights and natural resource issues were the second-largest group of defenders at … of evidence.30 chut Wutty was the founder of the natural resource Protection group, a civil society organisation that … protests about the unsustainable nature of growth and/or resource exploitation are often portrayed by vested interests …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… surrounding the ope- rations of mining, forestry or other resource extraction companies are unjustifi able (see … resour- ces, including the extraction or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources, or the storage or disposal …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance