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UNEP Global Judges Programme
… to achieve more effective application and enforcement of domestic environmental law. U N E P G L O B A L J U D G E S P … implementation, compliance with and enforcement of domestic environmental law by strengthening the capacity of … security, environmental emergencies, natural disasters; trade and environment; energy; business and environmental …
Primary microplastics in the oceans: a global evaluation of sources
… transfer ratios with regional populations and GDP (Gross Domestic Product) For City Dust a global value has been … manufacturing of plastics, transport on land (for domestic uses of plastics products) and water (for interregional trade of plastics products), as well as plastic end-of-life …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… & Lall 2006). Kenya suffered a 16% fall in its gross domestic product (GDP) as a result of the 1998-2000 drought … ed Arab Emirates, have had sufficient groundwater for domestic use and have relied on income from oil sales to … flows remains elusive due to limited information on trade-offs (Acreman & McCa- rtney 2000) and lack of political …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… free for use and not prohibited to anyone in relation to trade. Freedom of navigation on international European rivers … in water law to a certain extent. Individuals under domestic law and States under international law do not have … particularly within fragile environments, and the domestic, industrial and agricultural needs of the …
Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management
… challenge, involving difficult judgments on the trade-offs that occur between tourism development, the … parts of Asia in particular are driving up the volume of domestic tourism, and of outbound traffic from these … When regional wars, rebellions and terrorism occur, domestic and international travel falls, and fewer tourists …
Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders
… land grabbing, extractive industries, industrial timber trade and large-scale development projects. Indigenous … their recognition in various international, regional, and domestic laws, those rights are often not meaningfully … d. Ensure that any future bilateral and multilateral trade agreements involving countries, where EHRDs are under …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… of contracts 74 2.6 Special issues 75 2.6.1 International trade controls and related issues 75 2.6.1.1 International … as appropriate to the circumstances and subject to domestic law, should also be obtained.’ This suggests the … be normally both expensive and overbooked by foreign and domestic companies who better recognise their need for …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… United Nations FLR Forest landscape restoration GDP Gross Domestic Product GIS Geographic information systems GPFLR … interests and interactions......64 7.6 Conflicts and trade-offs … food, handicrafts, hunting, construction and other domestic needs. Older second-growth patches could be used and …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… that States may recognise customary law in other domestic law and policy without constitutional provisions … of this study. A preliminary bibliography of relevant domestic legislation and literature is provided in Annex C. … and natural resources. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora16 and the …