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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… forests used for timber production can constitute a major resource for biodiversity conservation. Indeed, it is crucial … threats such as hunting, fire, invasive species and mineral extraction. Logging inevitably leads to changes in … outside the forest sector. Agricultural conversion and mineral exploitation are often undertaken with inadequate …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… environment, since they usually result in greater use of mineral fertilisers and pesticides. Nevertheless, subsidies … 163 A2.2 Global Climate Change Modelling 167 A2.3 Natural Resource Depletion 168 A3 Assessing Social Effects 168 A3.1 … country in Europe still applying a tax on natural gas and mineral oil used for electricity generation. This leads to a …
Manual for the National Focal Points for CMS and its Instruments
… Network, and UNEP Regional Office for Africa), and other resource persons and organizations. The development of the … water, forestry, planning and development, agriculture, mineral extraction). 4.4.2 Logistics Procedures for obtaining … for policy areas such as fisheries, agriculture, forestry, mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure, development …
Manual for the national focal points for CMS and its instruments
… Network, and UNEP Regional Office for Africa), and other resource persons and organizations. The development of the … water, forestry, planning and development, agriculture, mineral extraction). 4.4.2 Logistics Procedures for obtaining … for policy areas such as fisheries, agriculture, forestry, mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure, development …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… priority? Box 15: Inter-agency coordination can overcome resource constraints. Box 16: Community conservation does not … are external financial interventions? Box 23: Overcoming resource constraints with people’s participation. Box 24: … areas and also resulted into relocation of thousands of resource dependent families. In addition, the elephants and …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… poverty and other perverse effects, namely, natural resource degradation. Among the problems faced by cities in … region of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) figured out that mineral extraction activities have aggravated the degree of … fuelwood may be cut by everybody insofar as the forest resource is owned by the "whole people". Germany Access to …
Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… to deliver national, regional, and global commitments to resource management, environmental protection, and economic … sector. Governance failure in one sector should make resource managers more cautious before bringing in additional … does acknowledge the possibility of multiple uses of the resource. Unlike other proposed storage dams in Nepal, …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… armed conflict, patterns of international trade and resource utilization . Part VII contains and develops the … species”; and (c) the rehabilitation of soil “affected by mineral exploitation” . Similarly, the 2003 revised African … Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources indicates that the competent courts are (a) …
Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors
… It is hoped that this publication will serve as a useful resource for auditors worldwide in the area of MEAs and … (CCAMLR) 3. The Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral resource Activities (CRAMRA) 4. The 1991 Protocol on … crAMrA Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource …