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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (Rotterdam, 10 September 1998) in Article 15 (2) … may be used to promote sustainable forest use, combat illegal logging, and solve forest conflicts. 1 Ownership … logging agreements are often ineffective. The causes of illegal activities include flawed policy and legal …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… (REDD). David has also worked for the UNEP Economics and Trade Branch in Geneva, and on a variety of environmental … forest at a rate of roughly 200 000 ha per year and illegal timber trading is rife (World Bank Report 2006). … interests continue to influence decision making, illegal armed groups operate in some areas, and many people …
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… habits are disassociated from those most impacted locally. Trade patterns, policies and agreements can play a crucial … the legal and institutional capacity is less stringent. Illegal and illicit transboundary movements of e-waste and trade in second-hand products have complicated the e-waste …
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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… the IRABS intends only to regulate and facilitate the trade in TK and GR, it largely ignores communities’ … keeping the termite population in check; • Combating illegal logging and poaching in the forest; • Continuing our … that the community faces (agricultural expansion, legal/illegal logging, fire, etc). This could also include an …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… of several mountain passes, in addition to ancient trade routes connecting the Subcontinent to China and Central … are few animals left and the government has made hunting illegal with heavy fines. They added that due to the limited … owner of the field the same crop back in compensation; ii) illegal tree cutting – the tarangan confiscates wood cut …
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State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… Roads open the way for agriculture to expand, but also for illegal logging – as a rule, deforestation takes place less … the stricter enforcement of existing rules to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The development … moist forests and coastal and marine ecosystems. 27. Some trade-offs between conservation and development are …
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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development

… protection and management of land, urban sprawl owing to illegal construction and gentrification of coasts, and … of crops and indigenous breeds from: • Overexploitation or illegal use of water and other natural resources • Habitat … and natural capital and externalities ➢ Inefficient trade markets and cooperation at regional level ➢ Low level …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… 143 Chapter 12. THE TÖPFER TASK FORCE, ENVIRONMENT AND TRADE, SEATTLE AND THE CARTAGENA BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL … across a wide spectrum, from wildlife poaching to illegal logging and international transfers of toxic waste.98 … transport of hazardous wastes in general, and that of illegal transboundary traffic in such wastes in particular, …
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Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.

… 6.1.11 Phytosanitary/Quarantine 6.1.12 Inter-Provincial Trade 6.1.13 Research Institutions 6.1.14 … Governance 74 Environmental Law in Pakistan I N.W.F.P 169. Illegal practice.— A person is guilty of illegal practice punishable with fine which may extend to two …
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Markets and Incentives in Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Using Economic and Financial Tools to Sustain Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes

… enterprise development 8 Markets for ecosystem services 9 Trade and supply chains 10 Infl uencing macroeconomic policy … conditions which cause people to produce, consume, trade and invest in an environmentally unsustainable manner, … It means infl uencing the economic and fi nancial trade-offs that governments, businesses, households and …
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