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Regional instruments on hazardous wastes- extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… hazardous wastes, regardless of whether there exist other international instruments for their control, which means that … in conformity with generally accepted and recognized international standards (article 4(4)), and for all movements … close cooperation with parties and relevant national and international organizations, such as the Basel Secretariat. …
National and Regional Plant Protection Organizations
… and control pest outbreaks; Introductory course to the International Plant Protection Convention 2 − conduct … available, and result in the minimum impediment to the international movement of people, commodities and … and spread of pests; − consistency with the WTO SPS Agreement as most major trading partners and WTO members are …
Recent debates on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction, including marine genetic resources
… out by the General Assembly towards developing a possible international instrument under the United Nations Convention … instruments and the possible development of a multilateral agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of … including by taking a decision on the development of an international instrument under the United Nations Convention …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Julianne Zeidler, Frits Hesselink Copyright: ©2015 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural … Publications Unit, Nairobi) Available from: IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Global … degradation is also driven by knowledge gaps and lack of agreement on the role of land. Land is a broad term with many …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… board; transboundary management (various levels across international borders) Private governance: By individual … Wright Society, Flanders Environment Agency, BfN, or the International Academy for Nature Conservation concerning the … Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement in December 2015 to take collective global action …
Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change
… for Marine Survey, Indonesia), Porfirio Alvarez-Torres (International Affairs Coordination Unit - Ministry of … AB, Sweden ), Judith Wehrli (Institute of European and International Economic Law, Switzerland), IliIssaria … Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement). This includes reference to reducing the impact of …
Land and water - the rights interface
… mechanisms and land tenure rights ........... 37 3.5 International law … 38 3.5.1 Land tenure rights and international law ................... 38 3.5.2 Water rights … corn" rent. Land and water – the rights interface 11 agreement, the "lease" or "lease agreement", will usually …
Water Management and Stewardship
… InternatIonal UnIon for ConservatIon of natUre Water … and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards. IUCN provides a neutral space in … the source of oral information is stated - where specific agreement was given for a statement during an interview to be …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… guidelines for IUCN Category 1b protected areas IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) IUCN helps … in 1977 and now the world’s longest-running, public, international conservation program. WILD’s work advances a … This change was influenced by the first international agreement on wilderness: the North American Intergovernmental …
The Basel Convention mechanism for promoting the implementation and compliance - Celebrating a decade of assistance to Parties
… 01 1/ 13 www.basel.int Secretariat of the Basel Convention International Environment House 15 chemin des Anémones 1219 … through the Secretariat, or it can be embedded in an international agreement, for instance the 1991 Bamako Convention on the Ban …