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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… In 2010, in Cancun, Mexico, the Parties to the UNFCCC agreed to establish the Cancun Adaptation Framework, whose … designed to help achieve this objective are longer-term adaptation planning through developing National … The strategies presented here should not be considered mutually exclusive. Quite to the contrary, a degree of …
Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods
… services and, in turn, will yield both immediate and long-term dividends to human wellbeing. While environmental … conservation alone will not achieve the internationally-agreed development goals, including those contained in the … in an integrated manner as they are interlinked and not mutually exclusive. Improving human wellbeing Governance …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… legal assistance and other co-operative arrangements agreed between the concerned States, and developing … to State. These benefits tend to be both short- and long-term. n Improving Governance: In addition to providing … tax incentives reflected a belief that the incentives were mutually beneficial for customers, service providers, and the …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… and resources in forest management in the short and medium term. The modest informal changes can act as useful ‘policy … has four key thematic components, each addressed in a mutually integrated manner: i) forests and poverty reduction, … informal) institutions work where people have developed agreed rules and plans about forest use: “Communities holding …
Environmental Rule of Law: Critical to sustainable development
… sustainable development and the implementation of agreed environmental goals and objectives at all levels and … first internationally negotiated document to establish the term ‘environmental rule of law.’ It invited Governments and … procedures and remedies; 6. recognition of the mutually reinforcing relationship between human rights and …
C1 - No Significant Harm, Pollution Prevention and Quality Standards
… standards. The duty to consult with a view to arriving at agreed measures and methods results from the general … cooperate through consultation, with a view to arriving at mutually agreeable measures and methods. The measures and methods agreed upon will be complex, depending on the issues to be …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… Environmental Agreement Secretariat MTS Medium Term Strategy OfO Office of Operations and Corporate Services … 27. In 1995 United Nations member states and entities agreed that gender mainstreaming would be the methodology … the full participation of women, effective, efficient and mutually reinforcing gender-responsive policies and …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… requisite political will to do so – to give effect to a mutually compatible overall set of international obligations … sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action...”39 A number of international funds … There is no agreement as yet on the legal form of this “agreed outcome,” but it is widely expected to lead to a new …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… parks ............................... 95 6.3.4 A long-term vision … the governments of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil agreed to link state and private reserves in the Parana … to advance and strengthen these three interdependent and mutually reinforcing social goals at local, national, …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… of Amazonian territories in a manner that is equitable and mutually beneficial to riparian states and ensures … on 17 August 2014. For the purposes of this report, the term “international water law” refers to international law … acres of land in Canada. Ultimately, the city of Seattle agreed not to raise the dam’s height and British Columbia …