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The Funding Strategy of the International Treaty
… LESSON 3: How to Access Resources under the Benefit-sharing … the Benefit-sharing Fund in Nicaragua. Two farmers owning land that falls within a protected area entered into … populations of the wild maize relative teocintle on their land, in exchange for targeted training activities and basic …
International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review
… Course participants and a wider audience, who are able to access these publications through the internet.1 Since each … Agreements’, in Helle T. Anker and Ellen M. Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF … in Helle Tegner Anker and Ellen Margrethe Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF …
Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation
… which the Champions and other stakeholders could easily access and draw upon; and building Champions’ capacity to … integrate watershed management into local economic and land use plans, and to support the establishment and oper- … at the borders of the three countries about sustainable land and water use. In doing so, they could support the …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… pollution is diffuse runoff from cultivated or industrial land. Some of the most frequently used infrastructure … sense of security and, when coupled with inappropriate land-use patterns - such as dense housing within deep … especially to stabilize steeper lands near the lakes. Access to cleaner water supplies is another benefit. Twelve …
Marine litter legislation: a toolkit for policy makers
… 13 3. Laws Governing the Production and Use of Land-Based Materials Causing Marine Litter … into the Marine Environment ..................38 4.1 Land-Based Waste Disposal Requirements … Disposal into the Marine Environment 47 port disposal access and limiting spatial fishing zones are two other …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… to respond to the problem of desertification and land degradation. A tenet of the UNCCD is that … by others. One example is the Council of Europe’s European Land- scape Convention (2000), which reflects a principle … sites; and balancing educational and recreational access to wetlands with the need to pro- tect their …
Governance of the Mediterranean Sea : Outlook for the legal regime
… territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin6 … no point is located more than 200 n.m. from the nearest land or island, States do not have a legal continental shelf … and Slovenia, two newly independ- ent States, have limited access to the Adriatic Sea, with the geographical features of …
UNEP Global Judges Programme
… and enforcement of environmental law, and promoting access to justice for the settlement of environmental … Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Land and Organization of Eastern Carribean States Environment … on different sectoral topics such as water, energy, land and soil management and economic instruments. These will …
Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands
… impact of avian influenza. The Task Force website provides access to a wide range of resources on avian influenza, … values, sustainable use of natural resources, and other land uses including research, education, and economic … Management plans provide a basis for controlling land uses and other activities within the relevant wetland …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… the current discussions of the interna- tional regime on access and benefit sharing under the CBD. The ABS Series … to discharge “process water” into a river, or even onto land (where it will seep into groundwater). That permit will … correct. Challenges for the Development of a Certificate land, or some other commodity, that the purported seller did …