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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… Programme UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme … adjacent States about the possible impacts and potential mitigation measures.157 Similar provisions are found in the …
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Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan

… 2014 that is consistent with the three Rio conventions ( Climate Change, Desertification and biodiversity). This strategy … soil conser- vation21 , and climate change adaptation and mitigation in general. In turn international PES financial …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… Indigenous Protected Area IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCCA Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Area … human rights and the rights implications of climate change mitigation mechanisms. CIFOR and IUCN are pleased to bring …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… to retain the water and regulate its flow. drawdown: the change in head or water level relative to background … industrialization, political instability, conflict and climate all play a role in the drama of water scarcity. … is converted, another wetland be protected or restored as mitigation. Scientific understanding of the water cycle must …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… Managing for invasive alien species 34 3.6 Managing for climate change 37 3.7 Taking an international perspective 39 4 … area legal frameworks to accommodate both adaptation and mitigation, including by creating corridors that ensure …
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D2 - Dams, Ecosystems and Fisheries

… environmental performance of dams and how concerns about climate change have prompted a debate over the relative environmental … or approval of the activity and the effectiveness of mitigation measures; (b) Review of an impact for proper …
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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… others things, develop IUCN policy on options to address climate change, including difficult topics such as assisted … the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. l) Biodiversity and climate change: Biodiversity considerations introduced into …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change … Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ......................................27 … governance, including climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable consumption programmes, and …
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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world

… to adapt to modifications in the environment – such as climate change. It also allows farmers and breeders to alter and … potential indirect and cumulative impacts and possible mitigation measures, possibilities for enhancement or the …
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IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites

… most serious current issues. Among the potential threats, climate change is assessed as by far the most serious, followed by … and therefore building local capacity for prevention and mitigation is required to help improve the conservation …
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