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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… water, energy and food security nexus in a coherent and sustainable way. The conference highlighted the renewed … The purpose of the Dialogue was to identify consensus on sustainable and resilient water management for water, energy … case of a treatment plant needing to convince farmers to use its water for agriculture and go into energy production …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… especially well in a given region may no longer be of use and will have to be substituted by other crops. In … first international agreement regulating the conservation, sustainable use and access to PGRFA. The International Treaty … agreed legally binding framework for conservation and sustainable use of all PGRFA. It carefully balances the …
Water Law and the Environment
… is the largest source of fresh water available for human use, constituting around 30.8% of all fresh water on Earth. … that: 1. Contains principles and rules concerning the sustainable use of shared freshwater resources; and 2. … and their ecosystems to ensure that human uses of them are sustainable. Such normative frameworks are contained in the …
Land and water - the rights interface
… 36 3.4.1 Water abstraction and use charges .............................. 36 3.4.2 Charging … Bough, J. 2002. Water abstraction and agriculture: Towards sustainable use of water resources 2 Environmental Law Review … in Central Asia. 15 Soussan, J. 1999. Water/Irrigation in Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Carney, D. (Ed) Sustainable …
Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… 1. The 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes … by ensuring rational use of water resources with a view to sustainable development. Transboundary waters are defined as … is: “[…] to foster closer cooperation for judicious, sustainable and co-ordinated management, protection and …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… among conflicting interests. 21 For example, the use of the concept of “equity” in the context of climate … of the atmosphere”, and in ensuing years the Commission on Sustainable Development held substantive discussions on the … In paragraph 13, the 2002 Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development stated that the global environment …
Factsheet - Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices
… knowledge can make a significant contribution to sustainable development. Most indigenous and local … Many of them have cultivated and used biodiversity in a sustainable way for thousands of years. Some of their … and local communities to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity goes far beyond their role as natural …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… vii HOW TO USE THIS … seem trivial in such a long-term perspective, the goal of sustainable, equitable and environmentally sound development … from the Convention will find important guidance on how to use such discretion as is available to them. Environmen- tal …
Accountability through Civic Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
… Although the State is accountable both to the donor (for use of its money) and to the citizens (to fulfil their … in 2013 at the conclusion of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), which provides for the … inter-State review of progress towards achieving the new sustainable development goals.5 This report takes the Forum …
The SHPF toolkit - A toolkit to help you to monitor and report incidents of pesticide poisoning caused by Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations in your country under Article 6 of the Rotterdam Convention
… reflect the views or policies of FAO. FAO encourages the use, reproduction and dissemination of material in this … through national policy advocacy and move towards more sustainable agriculture like agroecology. Results of CPAM … the use of hazardous pesticides and its desire to promote sustainable intensification of agricultural production. The …