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Environmental Governance

… to providing international platforms for negotiation and decision- making, UNEP has been fulfilling this mandate since … Governance sub-programme promotes informed environmental decision-making to enhance global and regional environmental … The sub-programme has four key goals: • Sound science for decision-making: UNEP aims to influence the international …
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Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental … in turn requires stakeholder participation in relevant decision- making procedures. The adoption of an ecosystem … between local, national, regional and global regimes. Decision-making should be made at the lowest appropriate …
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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… to participation in the conduct of public affairs and decision-making, enshrined in article 25 (a) of the … public; to facilitate participation in environmental decision-making; and to provide access to remedies for … on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision -Making and Access to Justice in Environmental …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… nature conservation; and • creation of platforms for key decision makers from different countries to interact and … the involved parties and processes and provide unhindered decision-making, aimed at ensuring success of a transboundary … and including common integrated planning and joint decision-making, is not an easy goal to accomplish due to the …
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Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… their needs. This requires their active participation in decision-making based on the co-responsibility and shared … Values for watershed services have to be linked to decision-making in watersheds. There are key issues that must … management to valuations for watershed services and to decision-making helps to build a case for payment schemes. …
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Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… public; to facilitate participation in environmental decision-making; and to provide access to remedies for … they received no adequate protection despite a prominent decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Kawas … because they are already marginalized and excluded from decision-making. Power inequality permeates all …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles of phytosanitary legislation

… to provide the best, or the least unlawful, grounds for a decision to reject the import of some or another commodity. … SPS agreement reduces, in principle, the risk of arbitrary decision-making and encourages consistent decision-taking. (b) Necessary measures. The SPS Agreement …
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Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers

… an interest in ensuring that the Guidelines are upheld. Decision-making in line with the Guidelines is arguably more … settlement processes, and opportunities for judges and decision-makers to consider the Guidelines in the performance … the Guidelines states this explicitly (see Box 2.1). The decision to bring national law into line with Guidelines’ …
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Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… 133 7�2�4 Informed decision making … decisions are implemented or not implemented, and how • decision makers are held accountable? Law formally defines … their obligations; by establishing processes for decision making, implementation, and enforcement; and by … services. Laws on public participation also play a role in decision-making processes regarding ecosystem services. EPLP …
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Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General

… law, and is one of the consequences of multilateral decision-making. 3. There is no single overarching normative … the principles of access to information, participation in decision-making and access to environmental justice. These … on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental …
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