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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… Agribusiness (20 killings), hydroelectric dams and water rights (15) and logging (15) were also major drivers of … of human rights abuses ▶ Implement due diligence checks on supply chains to ensure that their purchasing policies are … REPSA have rejected accusations that they caused the water pollution in the Río de la Pasión and have also …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… their livelihoods. As a consequence it undermines food, water and livelihood security, human health, and energy supply, with further implications for poverty, conflict and … value as well as productive value, providing food and water, fuel and fibre, employment, waste purification, and …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… services, such as soil protection and drinking water supplies, and secure homes for vulnerable human … protect places of cultural and spiritual significance, supply economic benefits, for instance through tourism, and … some order into this rapidly developing use of land and water, IUCN The World Conservation Union developed a system …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… and Watson 2016) or to ensure a high quality freshwater supply (Watson et al. 2016). Wilderness areas are also … Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: 96. Bernard, E., Penna, L.A.O & … when the brown- wrinkled Mother Earth was still covered by water, the crown of the Earth—the mountains of Altai were …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… discussions with community leaders, representatives of the water and sewage company, regional council members and residents to on drinking water and water quality, a long- standing problem in many … body created by the Danish government) for sustainable supply chain management to ensure that suppliers meet social …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… and travel long distances through the air and through water; and 4) They accumulate in fatty tissue. This is a … seldom if ever seen in belugas living in less polluted water. POPs have also been linked to stunted repro- ductive … across international borders and pollute resources – air, water, and migrating food sources such as fish – that all …
Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… and local communities. Related to CBD. 14 B Ballast Water Convention Shorthand for the International Convention … for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments. Adopted in 2004, not yet entered into … goods, services or information, thus matching demand with supply. The CBD has established a Clearing-house Mechanism to …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… 66 4.4.6 Managing water resources … 107 6.3.6 Establishing a water and soil conservation system … functioning of natural systems which ensure the supply of energy and nutrients”;44 “Ecosystems and organisms, … firewood consumption, and demand is far greater than the supply. To deal with the problem of firewood shortage, …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to land, water, natural resource and culture, we will seek to redress … governing body responsible for the uses of the land and water within the wilderness area. 2. Democracy—All partners … wilderness areas to be regarded as highly beneficial water supply zones and have often been preserved as wilderness for …
Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity
… deforestation, forest fragmentation, peatland degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, forest fires, and … other initiatives with the stated intention of achieving a supply of palm oil that minimises such damaging effects; …