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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… utilized due to various factors, including the lack of capacity and financial resources to assist parties and … to a healthy environment, with the majority of countries building this into their national constitutions (Figure 15) … been achieved in the areas of risk reduction, governance, capacity building and technical cooperation. Less progress …
Policy Brief - Bioscience at a Crossroads: Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in a Time of Scientific Technological and Industry Chang
… scale and effi ciency. Across all sectors, the speed and capacity of research activities has increased dramatically. … within the same species) and dramatically increase our capacity to understand genetic structure and select desirable … from different types of uses will vary signifi cantly. Building scientifi c capacity in the laboratory, research …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… experienced in the past and may go beyond their adaptive capacity, especially given their current conditions of … ecosystems to climate change impacts and their adaptive capacity have to be taken into account. It has been found … in chapter four include: shoreline reinforcement, improved building technologies, increased water quality testing, …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… constraints (particularly institutional limitations) and building opportunities; • identify causes of environmental … prized as a spiritually charged wilderness and for its capacity to uplift the human spirit. Such values, … included over-grazing and exceeding land’s carrying capacity, slash-and-burn agriculture, the impoverishment of …
Articles related to the implementation and institutional arrangements of the Minamata Convention
… 1. Financial resources and mechanism (Article 13) and capacity-building, technical assistance and technology transfer … 24) 1. Financial resources and mechanism (Article 13) and capacity-building, technical assistance and technology …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… of its members, networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural … steps are needed at all levels to implement them. If the capacity for governance is weak at any level, this will … fund and carry out the devolved responsibilities. Building governance capacity is vital for implementing …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… where “States committed to address, on an urgent basis, building on the work of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal … alphabetical order) who came together in their personal capacity at the IUCN seminar: Background iv Arianna … of research capabilities underlines the need for capacity development related to marine scientific research so …
Enforcement of Environmental Law: Good Practices from Africa,Central Asia, ASEAN Countries and China
… hoped. The reasons for this are manifold, including human capacity and access to technology constraints suffered … stories, habitats are shrinking, biodiversity’s resilience capacity is being weakened, climates are changing, alien … clearing house and information facilities, capacity building programmes, reporting mechanisms and other …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… of Natural Features Act and the 1995 Planning and Building Act. In addition, the network has been the subject … • to maintain the natural environment’s self-regulatory capacity • to promote international cooperation. The … in all three countries severe limitations in institutional capacity are a major impediment to effective manage- ment. …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… and, in particular, that lower the biological productivity capacity and diversity”). Although more subtle than … 18 Ibid. Introduction 9 2. Legal clarity and national capacity for REDD Regardless of the form of a post-2012 … Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which aims at building capacity for REDD, non-binding aspirational REDD …