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The "Chemical & Waste Conventions": the Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

… measures? How? The Basel Convention on “the Control of Transboundary Movements [including international trade] of … 11/15/2016 ‹#› The Basel Convention on “the Control of Transboundary Movements [including international trade] of …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… especially the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their … the Secretariat. The withdrawal of an exemption shall take effect on the date specified in the notification. 8. … developed under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… is also important to promote the integrated management of transboundary water resources, formalizing the relevant … The Trifinio plan is an example of an effort to implement transboundary integrated water management in Central America …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Land and water - the rights interface

… its natural state is in constant motion (see Box A). The effect is that water rights, in the sense described above, … law in so far as they relate to the use of the water of transboundary watercourses. This is not an insignificant … but it does restrict how states allocate the water of transboundary watercourses within their borders. For …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Establishing marine protected area networks

… the protected area (avoiding what is called the “edge effect”). The scale of benefits derived from individual MPAs … and governance arrangements can have a significant effect on network design and manage- ment. In some cases, …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context; the United Nations Convention on the … each level of diversity, best be assessed in terms of the effect on one of the following aspects of biodiversity: • … appropriate, also consider regional aspects to prevent transboundary impacts; • Guidance for determining levels of …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Guidelines for applying protected area management categories

… through fishing pressure and pollution. If the impacts of transboundary air pollution and climate change are factored … One particular form of shared governance relates to transboundary protected areas, which involve at least two or … objectives and being separate protected areas: in effect, these “parts” are individual protected areas that …
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IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources

… to the geographic scope is the management of straddling/transboundary MGR. Two situations can be distinguished here:  Horizontal transboundary situations: MGR moving between areas within and … responses by fish and crustaceans. The latter effect has been little studied. The collection of scientific …
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Waste or Wealth

… collection of used and end-of- life mobile phones, transboundary movement of collected mobile phones, … - Collection of used and end-of-life mobile phones; - Transboundary movement of collected mobile phones; - …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… activities. Human rights courts and tribunals have given effect to various human rights linked to environmental … it is effectively implemented. Obligations Relating to Transboundary Environmental Harm: Many grave threats to the enjoyment of human rights are due to transboundary environmental harm. This raises the question of …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance