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Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… ‘State Parties shall maintain a proper balance between resource development for higher standard of living for their … of many crops, and the maintenance of nature’s vast genetic library, from which humanity has already drawn the … the Indus Water Treaty relating to the Baglihar hydropower plant, which was being constructed by India on the Chenab …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… toward clean, renewable, and sustainable forms of resource use. Indeed, the proposition that the world needs to … Jan. 29, 2000), art. 23; International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Nov. 3, 2001); …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… to drafting a legal framework for governing the water resource, determining information relating to particular … Cartagena Protocol]. 219 Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of … covered by tropical rainforest and has “more than 30,000 plant species, nearly 2,000 fish species, 60 reptile species, …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… ecological processes, making major contributions to resource fluxes, transport, predator-prey interactions and … occupied by the species, and maximize intra-species genetic diversity and thus options for local adaptation and … investigating population dynamics and interactions of plant and animal species (SoOUV, whc.unesco. …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… the core team members acts as a regional lead. The World Resource Institute, one of the core team members, serves as … the reserves of water, biodiversity, in particular native plant and animal species, as well as cultural assets shall … drinking water, and the control of ragweed, an allergenic plant. Further Information: The website for the Commissioner …
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A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners

… with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally large, mainly in a … task of planting a tree requires: Skills. The ability to plant the tree using the correct technique and tools in a … and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources (access and benefit sharing). ● …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… today - bringing rivers back to life and maintaining the resource base for many. http: //www.waterandnature.org IU C N … of hydropower gene- ration4 or cooling of an industrial plant. However, the timing of the river flow downstream of … of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of the genetic resources. Contracting Parties have an obligation to …
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Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.

… acknowledges that European landscapes are a common resource, for whose protection, management and planning they … of lands, waters, mineral resources, wildlife, forests and plant life is available. Special laws on protected areas, on … life on Earth: ecosystem diversity, species diversity and genetic diversity. The emphasis, therefore, is on life's …
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Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition

… factor controling the environment and the associated plant and animal life. They occur where the water table is at … species. Wetlands are also important storehouses of plant genetic material. Rice, for example, which is a common … international cooperation. In sum, wetlands constitute a resource of great economic, cultural, scientific and …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Second report on the protection of the atmosphere

… and conserving the atmosphere which is a limited natural resource, while also suggesting that the modalities of the … comprised 7 to 23% of that from the Chernobyl power plant, and were far less than what was disseminated by the … difficulties, the initial conceptualization of plant genetic resources as part of the common heritage was almost …
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