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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… Taking measures, as appropriate, to reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas emissions; vi. … of grasslands to the sequestration of some of the greenhouse gases emitted by livestock, and the …
Croatia and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… of renewable energy sources that do not produce greenhouse gases. However, controversial issues have also … of crops for the production of biofuels can create greater greenhouse emissions than their impact on the reduction of … and landscape diversity. Any opencast mining, oil or gas field or any other project related to exploitation of …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… the meteorological understanding of effects of green house gas emissions and global warming, their effect on rainfall … for a significant proportion of human-induced annual greenhouse gas emissions. The fourth assessment report of the … degradation is therefore, a crucial element in reducing greenhouse gas emissions overall. The motivation for this …
Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
… For CFC and HCFC: nitrogen plasma arc, microwave plasma, gas phase catalytic dehalogenation and super-heated steam … Scientific Assessment to give full consideration to ODPs, greenhouse-warming potential and atmospheric life-time of the … anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A of that Protocol do not …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… change by reducing the sources or enhancing the sinks of greenhouse gases (Staudinger et al, 2012; Locatelli et al., … of the National Park system, canals were dug for oil and gas exploration and navigation throughout the Barataria … level have only limited effects on local air quality and greenhouse gas emissions offsets, but could complement other …
Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols
… Sulfite CCD Charge-Coupled Device CCGT Combined cycle gas turbine CFBC Circulating fluidized bed combustion CFC … ignition CN Combined Nomenclature CNG Compressed natural gas CO Carbon monoxide CO2 Carbon dioxide DBB Dry bottom … documents below: (a) Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations. SOR/2010–201; (b) Marine …