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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… or reputational risks when a project that comes under heavy biodiversity-related scrutiny attracts major NGO …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes (1991); on Heavy Metals (1998); on Persistent Organic Pollutants (1998); … motor vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair … associated with previous efforts to tackle the proble m of heavy haze in the area, such as the Regional Haze Action …
Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law
… and storage can lead to high levels of residues, and heavy metals and other contaminants can enter food through … cancer. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins and heavy metals, such as mercury, lead or cadmium, are some of … to come into contact with food, such as cork, glass, metal, paper, plastic, rubber, textiles, wax or wood. Food …
GEO yearbook 2003
… period covered by the Kyoto Protocol. The AMAP Assessment Heavy Metals in the Arctic reports increasing mercury levels … tributaries that feed into the lake. Kazakhstan’s own heavy use of water, especially for irrigation, poses Box 3: … of lead and sulphur. And the 1999 UNECE/CLRTAP Protocol on Heavy Metals, which deals with controlling emissions, …
International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)
… hazardous materials contained in the ships like asbestos, heavy metals, and ozone-depleting sub- stances; and that … environment/resources: sewage, POPs, radioactivity, heavy metals, oils (hydrocarbons), nutrients, sediment … (1994). 1998 • Protocol on POPs (1998). NIF • Protocol on Heavy Metals (1998). NIF • Draft Protocol on integrated …
Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas
… and survive potentially toxic concentrations of heavy metals. Seamounts are areas of the high endemic … seamounts, banks and canyon walls, destroying, with their heavy trawls, the fragile benthic coral-based communities. … exclusive economic zones, this area suffers from heavy illegal and unreported fishing. v. Great Meteor …
Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation
… and prescribe maximum tolerance limits for pesticides and heavy metals in food products. The Directorate General of … there is no doubt that creation of a new agency entails heavy financial, logistic and manpower requirements which … the use of food additives, processing aids, contaminants, heavy metals, insecticides, pesticides, veterinary drugs …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… gold mine that released high levels of sodium cyanide and heavy metals, relying on the Rio Declaration on Environment … since the end of the 19th century). In the 1970s, heavy nutrient discharge and pollution into the Black Sea …