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Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… implementation. To this effect, UNEP has been supporting a range of stakeholders including the Parties to the Convention … law at the international and national levels.2 State sovereignty has always played and continues to play a … enforcement policies and practices that there are a range of strategies available. For instance, private …
Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa
… exist, they are not yet widely available in Africa for a range of reasons, including high costs. The development of … they are not yet widely available in Africa for a range of reasons, including high costs. The development of … ensure that a quality-oriented patent system involv- ing state of the art searches on technology and substantive …
IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas: User Manual, Version 1.0 - The global standard for protected areas in the 21st Century
… population by 2022 – a commitment made by all 13 Tiger Range Countries (TRCs). Developed by WWF and partners, the … rights-holders’ consent is an understanding of the full range of issues implicated by the activity or decision. … time, based on a desk-based assessment of: • The current state and trend of values • The threats affecting those …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… law, thus adding greater legitimacy and efficacy to the State’s efforts towards conservation of natural resources in … of grain, equivalent to approximately 1kg Shamilat – range lands Sharba – member of a village council in Rondu; … in irrigated areas; n lower area pastures called shamilat (range lands). In general, communities, not individuals, own …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… control termites and as a broad-spectrum insecticide on a range of agricultural crops. DDT – Perhaps the best known of … organic pollutants act as powerful pesticides and serve a range of industrial purposes. Some POPs are also released as …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… only be government staff; they can and do include a wide range of protected and conserved area custodians, including … is based on similar approaches in other sectors and on a range of initiatives to introduce competences into the … field officer. ● Local environmental inspector. ● State agency (e.g. forestry) local officer. ● Resource owner, …
Ratification and Implementation Guidelines
… (UNIDO); Mr. David Buchholz, United States Department of State; Dr. Gaston Casaux, Uruguay Ministry of Public Health; … While other chemi- cal and waste treaties focus on a broad range of sub- jects, e.g. hazardous wastes, POPs, this … The limited focus of the Convention, however, belies the range of control it has over the life cycle of mercury. The …
Markets and Incentives in Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Using Economic and Financial Tools to Sustain Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes
… (25). Through conserving upstream forests in the Catskills range, New York City hopes to have avoided investing an extra … a particular way – so that they take account of the full range of forest landscape values, and the full range of … Hamilton, K. B. Ricardo, G. Turner and D. Higgins. 2007. State of the Voluntary Carbon Market 2007: Picking Up Steam. …
Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 7 - Wetland products
… in far-off cities in foreign countries. Wetland products range from food staples, such as fish and rice, to timber for … S The economic beneficiaries of wetland products range from local communities to multinational corporations. S … that play important ecological roles and support a range of biodiversity, including internationally important …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… (according to the Ramsar Convention) covers a wide range of habitat types from coral reefs to under- ground … Nations Environment Programme. 2008. An over- view of the state of the world’s fresh and marine waters. Second edition. … UNEP, Nairobi. United Nations Population Fund. 2007. State of world population: peering into the dawn of an urban …