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Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… Good practice guidelines 17 3.1 Identifying and promoting common values 17 3.2 Involving and benefiting local people 19 … the importance of such places to the future of humankind. But why should particular attention be given to transboundary … functions of the TBPA, as well as about their rights and responsibilities. This should stress the role that the TBPA …
Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… traded product. Finally, public payment schemes, the most common schemes, 7 involve public agencies and include user … way of providing incentives for watershed management, but they are rapidly developing into a mainstream tool. More … for payment for watershed services. These mechanisms are differentiated by the degree of government intervention in …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… are needed concerning not only the few ABS examples, but also the kinds of legal options that are available and … that many terms are used imprecisely. For example, the common mode of discussing ABS relationships is to use three … The value of biodiversity in pharmaceutical research with differentiated prod- ucts. Environmental and Resource …
Accountability through Civic Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
… an overload of obliga- tions to different review bodies, but also on non-governmental organizations and citizen groups … party’s contribution to development finance, recognizing common chal- lenges but also different capabilities and … buy-in of national governments all the more important. • differentiated contexts: because the SDgs are envisioned to …
Land and water - the rights interface
… .................... 48 4.3 The historical approach of the common law tradition ........... 49 4.4 The benefits and … parks, waste disposal sites, may not actively need water. But all human activities around that land certainly will. And … perhaps it might be a better solution to confer management responsibilities on those who primarily benefit from them. …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… conservation. The environment’s services are valuable but these values are a) seldom recognised and quantified and … discussion of the possible impacts associated with common development options for mangrove ecosystems, and two … welfare by calibrating a model of competition between differentiated products with data from the pharmaceutical …
Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors
… well as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. But well-functioning markets and societies depend on well … environmental auditing in the public sector is now a common part of the cycle for good governance and often … approach is to evaluate how well the country has met the responsibilities and obligations under the MEA; how these …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… protected areas should not be seen as isolated entities, but part of broader conservation landscapes, including wider … key challenge is the fact that PA management policies and responsibilities are embedded with a ministry that holds the … communities a ‘land use plan’ may be nothing more than a common understanding of where particular land uses should …
Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
… such substance, except as specified in the relevant Annex, but excludes any controlled substance or mixture which is in … Recalling that, taking into account the shared but differentiated responsibilities of the parties regarding the … and ways of managing HFCs, including development of a common understanding on issues related to flexibility of …