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Global mercury waste assessment - Review of current national measures
… Khan The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology for the Caribbean Ahmed Bah Ibrahim Federal … The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for Central Europe Daniel Garcia Ruano … The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology for the Caribbean Johan Pettersson Ministry of …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… to drylands. On the one hand, massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset this impact, … outcomes due to the modest and low impact nature of the technology being used. The amount of water available at … 2. Develop improved methods for assessing both nature- and technology-based water interventions in drylands to ensure …
Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century
… extinctions, fisheries collapse or, in a more localised, technology-specific example, impoverishment downstream of hydropower dams. Technology is prone to accentuating the convergence of … knowledge of them and creating an ‘ingenuity gap’ that technology alone cannot bridge (Homer-Dixon, 2000). The …
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… regional action programmes 9. Research, development and technology National capacities 10. National laws 11. Public … 12. Institutional arrangements Committee on Science and Technology 12. Dispute Resolution 13. Measures to resolve … financial resources, including for the transfer of technology, on a grant basis, and/or on concessional, to …
Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions
… and knowledge is often limited by a combination of technology, economics, culture and law. This section looks at … unless someone funds them. So we would like to thank TNC's Technology and Information Systems department, whose grant … Because of changes in the nature of information, technology, the global importance, and the scope of the …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… in favour of a particular fuel, government-sponsored technology, or research and development (R&D). Energy … and soft loans, regulations that favour a particular technology and R&D funding. Energy subsidies in developing … 3 United Nations Environment Programme 13 Division of Technology, Industry and Economics 13 Economics and Trade …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… . . . . . . . 142 ARTICLE 51: DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY . . . 19 Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … abatement . There must be an increase in the transfer of technology from the “North” to the “South” . As we learn more … establishes duties to share environmental information and technology, provide international financing, and foster …
Win-win solutions for the climate and the ozone layer
… on Climate Change (IPCC), together with the ozone regime’s Technology and Economic Assessment together with the ozone regime’s Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP), responded by … of ozone- depleting or greenhouse gases. Determining which technology option depleting or greenhouse gases. Determining …
The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
… (EIA); and capacity-building and the transfer of marine technology. Forewords by Laurence Tubiana and Eden Charles … and SEAs in ABNJ 35 4.6. Limited capacity building and technology transfer 36 4.7. Gaps in the framework for … 59 7.4. Capacity building and transfer of marine technology 60 7.5. Institutional arrangements 61 7.6. …