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Technology Transfer and Cooperation under the Convention on Biological Diversity

… institutions; • developing national environmental law • strengthening cooperation between civil society and … Warning and Assessments; DELC – Division of Environmental Law and Conventions; DEPI – Division of Environmental Policy … Africa | 16 Balakrishna Pisupati Division of Environmental Law and Conventions United Nations Environment Programme P.O …
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Guidance on the Practical Application of the Espoo Convention

… CONVENTION IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 11. The Convention introduced a new way of dealing with …
02 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… recognized, and it was re-categorized by the Guatemalan Law of Protected Areas in 1989 as a Multiple Use Natural … a system locally known as Kuruki, an informal customary law that is followed by the society) who are absent at the … 3) The Po Delta Park of Veneto was established in 1997 by Law no. 36/1997. It includes almost the whole geographical …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… (also backed up by legislation via the Disaster Management Law No. 24 of 2007) makes repeated mention of the importance …
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Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… Despite this clarity in international human rights law, I am seriously concerned about the worrying figures of … 12 While States are bound by international human rights law, non-State actors are required to respect human rights, … to the establishment of a two-tier system, in which the law is excessively applied to small-scale farmers, ethnic …
02 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… to motivate the rangers and improve enforcement of the law as well as environmental rules and regulations. The use … which in the case of Costa Rica are ratified by law, gives this site a special legal status which obliges the … but convergent approaches. Moreover, Article 50 of Law 42/2007 of December 13, on Natural Heritage and …
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The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices

… Education. Executing agency: Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Friends of the Earth PNG. … Small island developing states: Becalmed in a sea of soft law. Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 14(2), 89-99. GEF (2005). GEF and small island …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… campaign. On 1 January 1970, President Nixon signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), creating … of wild-fowl’. The country’s first modern antipollution law, the Alkali Works Act of 1863, was the basis of one of … the UN General Assembly was of course reflecting legal and constitutional realities. But, at a time when the …
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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development

… marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information (14.5) … marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information, by … marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information 1.1.2. …
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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… international co-operation among various national law enforcement agencies. In combating environmental crime, Interpol has been providing technical assistance, law enforcement contacts and investigative support, such as … is helping to create a safer world by providing the law enforcement community with a unique range of essential …
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