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Scientific Assessment Report - UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution - Summary for policy makers
… 2015) With an international co-operative approach each country would also benefit from reduced transboundary … al. 1994) Over the past 40 years the LRTAP Convention has developed an extensive international network of scientists of …
Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal
… pro- grammeme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or … 55 ���������� To complete the strategic approaches developed in the context of this report, it is necessary to … out in the future, taking into account the regulations developed by the stakeholders in certain mixed fishing zones …
Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan
… options, three main investment packages has been developed in this report as follows: 1.«Hima» Sustainable … 1 .1 CONTRIBUTING TO THE COUNTRY ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABLY PRESERVING ITS RANGELAND … Action Plan to Combat Desertification (2020-2015) as developed with the Ministry of Environment (2015). An …
Illicit wildlife trafficking: An environmental economic and social issue
… other criminal or armed militia activities, either in- country or elsewhere10. The organized nature of criminal … where Gabon’s stockpile of ivory was incinerated, the country’s President, Ali Bongo, pledged zero tolerance … starting with strengthening the judicial capacity of the country to deal with these cases. In March 2013, speaking at …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… of IUCN or the DGIS concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or … the broader Livelihoods and Landscapes (LLS) strategy, as developed by IUCN’s Forest Conservation Programme. This … in upgrading treatment plants. Although it relates to a ‘developed’ context, it provides some interesting insights …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… drop in GDP due to 1997- 1998 floods, partly because the country was unable to store and distribute water efficiently … water storage; Asia, Africa and Latin America have only developed 22%, 7% and 33% of their potential hydropower, … have their own language. The ecological community has developed a number of concepts, such as the ecosys- tem …
Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report
… However, he noted that these obligations continued to be developed in many forums, and he identified areas where … stating that mitigation and adaptation measures should be developed in accordance with human rights norms, including … causal relationships” linking emissions from a particular country to a specific effect, and noted that “global warming …
The Basel Convention mechanism for promoting the implementation and compliance - Celebrating a decade of assistance to Parties
… fund to assist any Party that is a developing country or country with an economy in transition and is the … During that meeting, the Committee also considered and developed recommendations on how to address existing … of tools and awareness activities The Committee has developed tools to assist Parties in the following areas: ■ …
Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… to take careful consideration of all sectors in each country sharing a basin. 2. Pollution risks in many … for the portions of each basin belonging to the respective country (referred to as Basin Country Units, see figure on previous page). The assessment, …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… is said to share fresh water with at least one other country, and many share it with multiple countries. … in regard to which the law has not yet been sufficiently developed in the practice of states.’71 The ‘codification of … particular, an international watercourse shall be used and developed by watercourse States with a view to attaining …