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Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
… migration related to temperature change and loss of arable land, increased exposure to insect vectors of disease, and … environmental compartments such as the oceans, ice, and land masses. Chapter 4 investigates the potential for changes … since the 1970s, has generally been greater over land than over the oceans. Additional warming occurs in …
Review of the compatibility of sectoral laws with the right to food
… Action Plan EXAMPLES OF POTENTIAL LAWS TO BE REVISED - Land - Water - Fisheries - Genetic Resources - Food safety - … or ownership of the resources needed for food production (land, water, etc.). 1.5. REViEW OF LEGiSLATiON FROM A HUMAN … rights of individuals with respect to resources such as land, water, forests, fisheries and livestock, without any …
Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General
… Haze Pollution addresses transboundary haze pollution from land and forest fires. Nevertheless, it has been suggested … and does not address air pollution from sources other than land and forest fires, such as combustion engines, household … use of forests,116 the pollution of marine areas by land-based plastic waste, the protection of soil, the use of …
Final: Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment
… Haze Pollution addresses transboundary haze pollution from land and forest fires. Nevertheless, it has been suggested … and does not address air pollution from sources other than land and forest fires, such as combustion engines, household … use of forests,116 the pollution of marine areas by land-based plastic waste, the protection of soil, the use of …
Sacred Natural Sites – Support for custodian protocols and customary laws in the face of global threats and challenges
… Sites: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers as “Areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to … faith groups, may also have longstanding relationships to land and sacred natural sites and may not be recognized as …
Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management
… Maria Carnevale, State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources; Andy Collins, NOAA Office of … Blue Ventures; Randall W. Kennedy, Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural xvii XVIII Large-Scale Marine Protected … of marine debris. • Increasing downstream impacts from land-based sources of pollution. • Habitat destruction and …
UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders
… have defined environmental activities related to land and environmental construction and development … by greater competition for natural resources communities' land by private, business or state actors at n in search of a … human rights relating to the environment, water, air, land, environmental human rights defenders as “defenders …
Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… between water, energy and food (or the management of land for food, fodder, and fuel production) – the nexus – has … of Sussex, UK. • Tira Foran, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia. • Stephen Biggs, … resources ‘commons’ such as water, air, forests and land or even minerals span an ownership spectrum with shades …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… guidance to the financial mechanism; (b) mechanisms; (c) land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF); and (d) compliance, … overlay of common law regarding nuisance, negligence, and land law. Although such a vast array of relevant bodies and …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 6 Cultural heritage -- Wetlands -- a cultural landscape
… tained the terraces over 2,000 years, creating a cultural land- scape of such beauty that the area was accepted as a … In many parts of the world there are examples of wet- land landscapes that fishermen and seafood gather- ers have … regulations by a number of countries to conserve cultural land- scapes, the adoption of the European Landscape …