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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… working under contract with UNESCO and FAO. The high calibre of Ms Rothenberger's and Ms Oliver's … and gains strategic importance as a source of often high-quality freshwater in the face of the impending water … conditions affecting large areas, seasonal droughts, very high rainfall variability and sudden and high- intensity …
Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report
… and climate change, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to study the … which met in Paris in December 2015. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made a powerful statement … served as the President of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and who is now the Special …
The Social Dimension of Ecosystem-based Adaptation
… to produce sufficient food resources, maintaining a high level of ecosystem health is thus fundamentally … and overall project management. In order to deal with the high number of actors, clearly defined roles from the … implementation is hampered by the inadequacy of a high number of legislative items and procedures in place. The …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… 2016) 4141 services for DRR. The numerous benefits of high versus low biodiversity ecosystems have been well … of marine resources and climate change. Due to its high vulnerability to climate change effects, the region … Cameroon and of the Albertine Rift are considered areas of high biodiversity. Ecosystems provide important goods and …
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.
… ment (ESIA) process. It is also not designed to monitor high-value biodiversity management tar- gets pursued through … diversity risk, as well as specific needs for sites of high biodiversity importance, areas governed by Biodiversity … site-level monitoring that is required on sites with high biodiversity impor- tance, where specific biodiversity …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… the global population lives in countries under moderate-to-high water stress. Studies have estimated that by the year … above. Some industrial uses themselves require water of a high level of purity and could also come into conflict with … the Sea (articles 194 , 207 and 213) and various regional seas agreements. Estuaries, partly enclosed aquatic zones …
Water as a human right?
… development can only be achieved in the absence of a high prevalence of debilitating diseases, while obtaining … aspects of the constitutional right to life. – The High Court held in L.K.Koolwal v State of Rajasthan and … and Others v State of Karnataka and Others (1991), the High Court went further and observed that “[e]ntitlement to a …