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

… “Institutional Challenge” ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper was developed by the Division of Environmental Law and … and hydropower development. It has focal points in each country, the National Mekong Committees, that coordinate work … the Water Act in which the agreement is embedded, the MDBA developed a Basin Plan for managing the basin. The Millennium …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… paper is a draft paper which will be completed, further developed and refined in the coming weeks. Its preliminary … management was explicitly stimulated by Agenda 21, as developed at the 1992 United Nations Conference on … Second, while LME “champions” claim that “the projects are country driven” (Sherman and Hempel 2008), they are still …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… is said to share fresh water with at least one other country, and many share it with multiple countries. … in regard to which the law has not yet been sufficiently developed in the practice of states.’71 The ‘codification of … particular, an international watercourse shall be used and developed by watercourse States with a view to attaining …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

National Regulation of Freshwater resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… relatively recently where water policies have been developed followed by new consolidating Water Acts and … party to critically examine the situation in their own country and other countries they may be interested in. 2. …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… cannot be treated less favourably than victims from the country where the accident has occurred. … Protocol on Shared Water Course Systems (SADC Protocol), developed with the assistance of UNEP, was signed in 1995, … International Watercourses in 1997, a revised Protocol was developed, in line with the provisions of the UN Convention. …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Background document - 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement

… the Agreement is thus regarded as an important way for a country to signal that it is a responsible fishing nation. … pollock, jack mackerel and squid, occur both within a country’s exclusive economic zone and in the adjacent high …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

The Law of the Sea

… http://leo.informea.org/terms/developing-country http://leo.informea.org/terms/environmental-damage …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Regional Seas Agreements

… world. Thirteen regional framework agreements have been developed under the UNEP Regional Seas Programme. A legal regime for the North East Atlantic Ocean was developed by regional states prior to the Regional Seas … Barcelona Convention. So far, the Convention has as 22 country-parties bordering the Mediterranean Sea. …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and well being. They are, in fact, an integral part of a country’s economy and should be both protected and enhanced … and principles, as well as national regimes, have been developed to regulate their navigational and other uses. … vulnerable since their immune systems are not fully developed. The poor are the most likely to have inadequate …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Factsheet - Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater