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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… Today Customs officers are becoming aware that their traditional role as guardians of the trading system is … Green Customs Guide 11 as a useful supplement to traditional training activities. As of the end of 2007, seven … recombination barriers and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection. Living modified organism …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… illegally, due to lack of prior and informed consent by traditional landowners and the failure of the PNG Government … land owners: they could be granted legal rights to their traditional lands, or they may be evicted, as more powerful … communities should not be denied access to food, medicine and fuel wood in forests in the context of REDD …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… text for the preservation and heritage of ethnic, folk, traditional knowledge and techniques in favor of land … management. Experience has shown that the transition from traditional single resource management to systematic … vegetation have degraded from the decline of ground water. Traditional flood irrigation practice in agriculture is a …
Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands
… management strategies. It also noted a need to broaden the traditional perspectives of public health and their … 4: Avian influenza and wetlands 11 • That, as well as traditional marking methods, i.e., ringing/banding, new … wild and zoo conservation management and veterinary medicine as well as to agricultural medicine and human …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… NGOs anticipated that large plantations would affect traditional land rights and usage and degrade biodiversity. … under the CDM compete with other forms of land-use in the traditional agricultur- al systems, which might not be … of the CDM on forestry-related activities compared to “traditional” ODA financed activities is seen to be relatively …
UNEP. The first 40 years
… very much at UNEP’s insistence, turned away from a traditional protectionist approach to nature conservation and … UNEP’s role was. UNEP wasn’t an implementing agency in the traditional UN sense (though it had that role in respect of … p116) 33Former Njoroge Mungai, interviewed by Stanford Medicine Magazine for an Alumnus Profile in Feb 2006, said …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… and affect their constitutional rights over their traditional lands. Indigenous lands are, according to the … under English common law this doctrine extended only to traditional uses such as navigation, commerce and fishing, … explosion, over exploitation of resources, depletion of traditional sources of energy and raw materials, the …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… strategic and tactical responses to an emerging non-traditional security threat in the region. Since 2005, with … instance, due to the alleged healing properties in Asian traditional medicine, the number of rhinos that are poached for their …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… 567 Educating Community and Traditional Leaders ....................................... … mechanism, capacity building and human development, traditional knowledge, programme priorities and coordination … are not available to track environmental data, other more traditional methods can be used. The most important feature …