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Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)
… Environmental effects include the degradation and loss of function of ecosystems and their services. The … on mental health of well-researched substances, e.g. IQ loss associated with exposure to lead. • Tax on pesticides is … one, focusing on fewer aspects of high relevance for biodiversity and leakage to groundwater. These essential …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… particular arable land, forests and the reserves of water, biodiversity, in particular native plant and animal species, … and serious intimidation to community members, and the loss of food security. The NHRCT designated its Subcommittee … on the collective, stating that “Nature and its biodiversity, the environment and the national heritage are …
Second report on the protection of the atmosphere
… (5) to the draft principles on the allocation of loss in the case of transboundary harm arising out of … argument for the consideration of climate change and biodiversity as part of the common heritage did not find … G. G. Davies and E. J. Goodwin, eds., Research Handbook on Biodiversity and Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015, …
Closing Strategy - Ending Ivory Trade in Hong Kong
… on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. … the total weight of ivory stockpiles is allowed given the loss generated through processing, e.g. residue from cutting … on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. For …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… the system; (f) "land degradation" means reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, of the … or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long-term loss of natural vegetation; (g) "arid, semi-arid and dry … beauty and ecological value, an important reservoir of biodiversity, the headwaters of major rivers, an essential …
Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual
… inflow throughout their entire bed; others have seepage loss to groundwater throughout their entire bed; but perhaps … inflow through part of their bed and have seepage loss to groundwater through other parts (Figure 3.9). … More- over, like lakes, reservoirs can have significant loss of water by evaporation. Figure 3.9: Lakes’s interaction …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. … what-we-do/capacity-development The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) …
Water as a human right?
… the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as in combating poverty. … the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as in combating poverty. … energy, health care, food security and the protection of biodiversity…”34 Regional arrangements Regionally too, there …
Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group
… rights and protect their environment, and a person whose loss continues to be felt by their family, their community … was also an advisor to the Chico mendes institute for Biodiversity Conservation. He had opposed environmental … those consequences include, inter alia, ‘the gradual loss of control over indigenous lands, territories and …
The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments
… Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan—Convention on … low- hanging fruit The scope of the Vietnamese Law on Biodiversity has been extended to cover climate change by the … leads to an overall weak- ening of the law in force and a loss of credibility and effectiveness of the particular legal …