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Transboundary Air Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Co-operation and Development (OECD) initiated EMEP as a special programme in 1977. Since then, the EMEP network has … such as taxes of tradable permits. Parties are required to report their SO emissions and their implementation measures … best available techniques for these sources, such as special filters or scrubbers for combustion sources or …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Improving governance of pastoral lands

… water points. It also involves protection of use rights to special resources such as specific trees, salt pans and more. … description of pastoralist land management systems with special attention to their specificities; mapping of … of the Convention to Combat Desertification, 2007, Report, 8th session, Conference of the Parties, Madrid 3-14 …
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Factsheet on Human Rights and the Environment

… environmental and human rights law. Both regimes provide special protections for indigenous property rights and rights … of the Toledo District v. Belize, inter-Am. Comm’n H.R., Report No. 40/04, (2004) 4 Mossville Environmental Action Now … open consultation, and recommended further monitoring. A special form of procedural protection unique to environmental …
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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… that is healthy, with all the teeth and eyes. There is a special steer (castrated bull) that is slaughtered and a part … drinking their milk and blood, and eating meat on special occasions. While many of us have built permanent … use of biological diversity. The recent June 2009 report of the Meeting of the Group of Technical and Legal …
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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… Survey on the Implementation of Farmers’ Rights - Report, 2017; R. Andersen, 2016. Farmers’ Rights: evolution … more interested in singing and dancing and the songs have special messages for them. Ms Chiota furthered explained that … varieties indigenous to Hiroshima Prefecture, with special characteristics such as taste, rare or associated …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… Multilateral System of Access and Benefi t-sharing, with a special focus on the Standard Material Transfer Agreement … Cornell University, at the time working with FAO. Our very special thanks go to the authors of the lessons, and also to … concept of sustainable use is derived from the Brundtland report’s definition of sustainable development, i.e. …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project. A special thank you to Angela Andrade and Karen Sudmeier-Rieux … to scale-up integrated approaches. Part 1 of this report provides a conceptual background on the importance of … In efforts to address the challenges posed by disasters, special attention needs to be given to ecosystems and the …
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Environmental Rule of Law: Critical to sustainable development

… the life-support functions of the planet could occur.2 1 Report of the Secretary-General on the Rule of Law and … Kingdom Justice Philip Waki, President of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone Edith Brown Weiss, Francis …
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Obligations - The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… A milestone in international environmental law 2.2. Special provisions for developing countries 2.3. Dealing with … obligations to Parties while having into account the special needs of developing countries. This model was, later … 2.2. Special provisions for developing countries The Montreal …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security

… damage and loss in agriculture 6 Purpose and scope of this report 8 pArT i More disasters, more impact on agriculture 13 … initiatives. countries in protracted crises require special attention, given the exceptional role that … hydrological, climatological and biological disasters. Special emphasis is placed on the disaster types in each …
19 Jun 2026 Literature