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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… and investments in ecosystem services. The Dialogue grew out of the Bonn Nexus Conference1 in November 2011. One of … bureaucracies), and a compromise of sorts was worked out. The fisher folks would be paid a one-time compensation … of beneficiaries from the valuable stored waters coming out of the tailrace of the Kulekhani system – monsoon flows …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… ‘the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits aris- ing out of the utilization of genetic resources, including by … and Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising out of their Utilization, originally adopted as an addendum … this Series, however, this book does not attempt to edit out legal or scientific ideas, and contains a number of …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… and by applying the IEM-based method to effectively point out inadequacies in legislation and policy. From all … relevant to LD in the world to date. Moreover, it sets out the reform agenda the PRC is taking to improve its … development.134 132 E.g., PRC National Program for Phasing-out Ozone Depleting Substances; more than 100 …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… both English and Spanish, with the Span- ish version due out later this year. When we selected the topic of cultural … 9 Protected landscapes and seascapes would not exist with- out the deeply rooted cultural and spiritual values held by … of existing values (Borrini Feyerabend et al. 2004). Out of the four main types of governance that exist …
Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law
… in developing new food laws and regulations, by setting out and examining the many elements of the national system … authority in a single executive agency which carries out inspections “from farm to fork” and aims to protect … transport, labour-saving devices in the home, the phasing out of physically demanding manual tasks in the …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… for modern agri- culture. This they have done by breeding out the natural traits, such as shattering of seed-heads … has been the Taro Leaf Blight, which threatened to wipe out the taro crop of at least one South Pacific country, a … for achieving food security. The list of crops set out in Annex 1 to the Treaty, which are included in the …
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
… Our vision 7. In these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and transformational vision. We … of common but differentiated responsibilities, as set out in principle 7 thereof. 13. The challenges and … circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to …
Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… (not in italics). As always, what we have left out of this report is much more than what we have included. … been a very large number of important activities carried out among the SSC Specialist Groups and Sub-Committees, and … several UN organizations ‘mapping’ (an exercise carried out by IUCN) their remits to the Aichi targets. The second …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… 1945 and entered into force on October 24, 1945. it sets out the purposes of the United Nations, including the … into force on September 2, 1990. The Convention sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural … the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, …