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Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… Phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at refrigeration plant of “Frinko” 1,081,724 Phasing out of CFC-11 from … is an important means of risk prevention and environmental protection . As such, the GENASIS provides a model of … drug smuggling and organised crime . Customs and border protection officers constitute the front line of every …
Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… Programme (SPREP) has developed a “Model Law for the Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Innovations … established a second model law, “The Model Law for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… right to adequate food, poverty eradication, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. … housing security, rural development, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. … of promoting general welfare including environmental protection and consistent with States’ human rights …
Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project
… under the custodianship of South Africa where better protection existed; this subspecies made a persistent and … mostly remained in private conservancies offering better protection), levels of illegal killing have sharply escalated …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… and its two daughter directives (Directive 2006/118/EC on Protection of Groundwater against Pollution and Deterioration … UNECE Water Convention UNECE Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and … the Indus Water Treaty relating to the Baglihar hydropower plant, which was being constructed by India on the Chenab …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 4 1.3 Ecosystem protection and management … both directorates in 2004; and plans for a waste treatment plant in the southern part of the region on the Austrian side … to protect a particularly species or type of vegetation; plant protection is generally achieved through protection of …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 3 Birds
… by affording to species either of primarily two levels of protection. Those species (or smaller geographical … the Group should restrict its attention to fauna, as a Plant Working Group was already in existence. The conclusions … species should be listed in Appendix II to ensure adequate protection for the Argentinian population. Amazona aestiva …
Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… example, depending on how it is designed and implemented, protection of coastal and marine areas could benefit or … Of particular relevance is the legal framework for the protection and preservation of the marine environment set out … or destroy natural habitat. Pollution also affects the protection of marine and coastal areas. Pollution and ocean …
Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers
… tenure rights according to the Guidelines Box 2.7 Protection for customary and indigenous tenure rights in the … in Mali and Uganda Box 4.13 Leveraging community land protection processes to strengthen women’s tenure rights in … opportunities for women to use their knowledge of plant species and methods of product extraction, as well as …
AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)
… legislation and/or other regulatory provisions for the protection of threatened species or populations; (l) Where a … have an influence on European wildlife (e.g. through the protection of migratory species), may be full parties and … as for the most serious offences against legislation on protection of the environment, such as certain types of …