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Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa

… UnDERSTAnDIng AnD lEVERAgIng THE PATEnT SYSTEM TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO CETS In AFRICA – FInDIngS AnD RECOMMEnDATIOnS 58 … Patent Classification (CPC) allow free of charge access to all relevant technical information on the internet. … however also be relevant for technology transfer. Copy- right and industrial designs are two cases in point. Copy- …
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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… or as public interest petitioners, must all necessarily access the courts system to ensure that both state and … Rights, Duties and Responsibilities 35 Is There a Right to a Healthy Environment? 35 Right to Information 36 Access to Justice 36 1.2.9 Sri Lanka’s Environmental Policies …
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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… Stockholm and 1992 Rio Declarations focus on the human right to a safe and clean environment. The Stockholm … Fuel sulfur content Public transport Non-solid fuels access Cook/heating stoves No. of Countries0 193 Countries … in the developing world (Seas at Risk 2016). Freshwater Access to clean drinking water and sanitation Access to …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… plant species to hunt and gather for food and medicines, access to fresh drinking water, the availability of firewood … practice of deriving environmental rights, like the right to a healthy environment, from general human rights, … land and its natural resources, which can influence the access to ecosystem services. Laws on public participation …
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Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives

… and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own … the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held … by making information widely available. Effective access to judicial and administrative proceedings, including …
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Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions

… if information is fragmented, incomplete or hard to access. Good information is critically important to good … information can be managed cooperatively, allowing greater access to data that will improve global responses to the … authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited12.” In the last …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… 59 8. Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters [Aarhus, 25 June … 21. Memorandum of Agreement Related to Referral of Water Right Applications [10 October 1996] - Appendix to British …
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The status of climate change litigation - A global review

… 3.2.2 The Right to a Clean or Healthy Environment … and regional economies that rely on having predictable access to particular resources and markets.4 The need to … fossil fuels, tend to have concentrated interests and good access to relevant information. Meanwhile, those most likely …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… but also adjacent lowlands (Edmund Barrow). (Top right) The introduction of modern technologies has led to the … mountain people in developing countries have little or no access to educational opportunities that could improve their … the need to extract raw materials and to provide military access to frontier areas – which are often along mountain …
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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action

… EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and another dealing with access and benefit sharing (ABS), implemented by the … and Trevor Sandwith Abbreviations and acronyms ABS Access and Benefit Sharing APIs Areas of Particular … simply remain effective conservation measures in their own right. Thus, areas that do not fit the IUCN definition of a …
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