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A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity

… 26 5.6 Biodiversity Impact Assessment and Minimising Adverse Impacts 28 5.7 Protected Areas 29 5.8 Public … I can also be listed in Appendix II. These agreements in effect are separate international treaties whose object … seals and cetaceans. They can cause chronic and acute adverse effects, even death. These chemicals also can …
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Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… with the text of the Convention, Resolutions in effect and existing practice, and drew attention to comments … enviRonmental agReements238 H. Minimization of adverse impacts in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 14 … 1, of the Kyoto Protocol in such a way as to minimize adverse social, environmental and economic impacts on …
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Guidance on the Practical Application of the Espoo Convention

… the people living in areas likely to be affected by an adverse impact are told of the proposed activity. It provides … 2.7 Screening the likelihood of significant adverse transboundary impacts by the affected Party (Article … Convention when a planned activity may cause significant adverse transboundary impacts. The Convention was a response …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

The status of natural resources on the high-seas

… • To protect breeding populations • To reduce the adverse impacts of human activities To-date, the overwhelming … specimens at high, unsustainable levels could have an effect upon both the target species and the ecosystem as a … than oil, coal or oil shale, all of which have a greater adverse environmental impact during production and …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… through piece meal laws and regulations which can have an adverse overall effect. At the basin level, we see the benefits of developing … services into an overall strategy to help people adapt to adverse impacts posed by climate change. It includes the …
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Modern water rights : Theory and practice

… made on the basis of an express or implied contract the effect of which is to give the beneficiary the legal right to … to the extent that conditions are inserted to minimise adverse effects to third parties including other water rights … the opinion of the Director, will not cause a significant adverse effect on the aquatic environment.� The involvement …
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Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities

… changes in their abundance can therefore have a major effect on the organization and functioning of the community. … dioxide back into the ocean and atmosphere, thus having an adverse effect by increasing greenhouse emis- sions. Well … and stressors will then determine the future magnitude of adverse effects (IPCC, 2007b, p. 883). The vulnerability of …
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Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers

… are interested in understanding the role of law in giving effect to the provisions of the Guidelines. National law is … to avoid infringing on human rights and to address adverse impacts that may arise from their activities … that enterprises: “(a) Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, …
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Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… intended conservation and welfare benefit without causing adverse side effects of greater impact. Section III … with or predation by other species, habitat loss, adverse effects of earlier research or management programmes, … created by the loss of the great ape taxon concerned, the effect the re-introduced taxon might have on the ecosystem …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events”. The disaster management spiral (RICS 2009) … width and height have been shown to have a positive effect on wave attenuation and shoreline stabilization … half-day workshop on local ecosystem protection to prevent adverse changes in local beach and river …
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