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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… drinking water to be $3 billion per year (2015 prices) for sub-Saharan Africa, Asia (East, South, South-East and West), … Wastes and their Disposal (1996) • Integrated Coastal Zone Management Protocol: Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone … means reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Assessing the international forest regime

… it should. It is not creating the conditions for national, sub-national and private actors to ensure the conservation, … forest ecosystem programme to date “has been in tropical humid forests, with some projects including parts of dry … a restricted core of protected land surrounded by a buffer zone in which economic activity is allowed but is regulated …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… ethnically distinct indigenous peoples live in the major humid forest areas of the Amazon and Congo Basins, the … 1987 and 1997 all coincided with droughts in the forest zone and fires occurred in forests that had not previously … to an increased loss of species. In the semi-arid and sub-humid areas climate change is projected to negatively …
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Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… large area of land that drains into a major river, while ‘sub-catch- ments’ or ‘micro-catchments’ are much smaller … jeopardised as a result. • Planting exotic trees in sub-humid parts of South Africa is no longer considered a …
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Towards a Representative Network of Marine Protected Areas in Libya

… human activities, many others exist in the Libyan coastal zone: the following table provides a more accurate list. A … Evidence shows that certain arid, semi-arid, and dry sub humid areas have experienced decreas- ing precipitation, …
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Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors

… Some SAIs have the mandate to audit national and sub- national legislation relating to MEAs. For example, the … since MEAs are often needed to be implemented at the sub-national level as well as at the national level, the … Degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas,  …
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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna CZMP Coastal Zone Management Plan EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EPL … practices.121 The degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas can lead to desertification, resulting primarily …
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Judicial handbook on environmental law

… may be used for environmental protection. • Coastal zone management, fisheries and forestry law seek to conserve … codes that apply to multinational enterprises. The UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights approved Norms on the … as land degradation in arid, semi- arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including …
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Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?

… to be left behind, and must particularly address sub-national development disparities as well as issues of … crop- livestock systems typically found in temperate, sub- humid, humid or highland climates31. To some extent past … important. For example, in Ethiopia’s pastoral Borana zone, the local institutions that support social safety …
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A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species

… 41 4.3.6 Relationship between National and Sub-national Laws and Institutions ........................ … marine and coastal areas,5 biodiversity of dry and sub-humid lands, and forest biological diversity. In 1998, it re- … shelf; (d) that is indigenous to the exclusive economic zone; (e) members of which periodically or occasion- ally …
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