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Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation
… Champions of Water Governance Leadership Building for Local to … IUCN 5Director, Global Water Programme, IUCN 6Director, Environmental Law Centre, IUCN The designation of … Water and Nature Initiative (WANI) – SHARE, NEGOTI- ATE, RULE, VALUE, PAy, CHANGE and FLOW. Tools from systems …
Preparing national regulations for water resources management: Principles and practice (2nd edition)
… Stefano Burchi Ariella D’Andrea for the Development Law Service FAO Legal Office FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2003 FAO LEGISLATIVE STUDY 80 … pressure to satisfy the ever-growing economic, social and environmental demands of today's complex, interdependent …
State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
… State of Biodiversity in Latin America and The Caribbean | 1 State … considerable advances achieved in the region in some environmental areas, such as the increase in protected areas … agriculture to expand, but also for illegal logging – as a rule, deforestation takes place less than 30 kilometres away …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… Overview of the Lesson Farmers´ Rights in the International Treaty on … farm-saved seed/propagating material, subject to national law and as appropriate. In addition to farmers, the wording … of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 57. Pp. 66-78 3 For …
Tackling, poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking in Africa
… continues at these rates, we may see the extinction of two of Africa’s most charismatic species from some of … awareness of the crisis to reduce demand. • We strengthen law enforcement efforts to crack down on illegal wildlife … world’s illegally trafficked ivory ends up in China. The Environmental Investigation Agency esti- mates 90 percent of …
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance
… Equality and Equity in ABS Governance The designation of geographical entities in this publication and the … 65 3.6 Gender and Customary Law under the CBD............... 67 3.7 Gender and Article 8 … seen as one of the primary indicators of unsustainable environmental pressures, while re- duction of inequality has …
GEO yearbook 2003
… inform, guide and stimulate further action for the health of our environment. What were the most outstanding environmental events and developments of 2004? What new … ● Finalization of the United States Clean Air Interstate Rule would reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and …
Illegal Traffic under the Basel Convention
… National reports submitted in the framework of the Basel Convention suggest that nearly 180 million … is a crime. The Basel Convention is one of the very few environmental treaties to define a prohibited activity as a … this Convention and of general principles of international law. Not everyone seems to share the common global ambition …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… svizra Swiss Confederation Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG … as agricultural inputs increases in both financial and environmental terms. This suggests that the role of crop … famines during the 1940s when it was still under colonial rule. After gaining its independence, one of the main goals …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… svizra Swiss Confederation Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG … crop is uniformly susceptible to a given pest, pathogen or environmental hazard. Genetic uniformity creates a potential … to support breeding activities that practically rule out applications from farmers. In order to get …