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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… of wealth. With this current path of entrepreneurship and resource management, the world is headed towards … with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources”. 33 Box 17 The Tirana … for the mining sector. FPIC is called for in cases where mineral (including petroleum) or hydrocarbon projects affect …
Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals
… Decoupling of socio-economic development from escalating resource use and environmental degradation; (iii) Coverage of … Decoupling of socio-economic develop- ment from escalating resource use and environ- mental degradation. Goals and … They should encourage and support steadi- ly improving resource efficiency through more effi- cient production and …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… parties (users, source countries, source communities and resource owners, user countries, researchers, middlemen and … ’ (OCS), 28 including the right to exert dominion over: mineral and other non-living resources of the seabed and … in UNCLOS to mean only ‘all solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources in situ on or beneath the seabed, including …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… 16 Resource efficiency and Markets … 19 Economic & natural resource efficiency … include the increasing use of herbicides, pesticides and mineral fertilizers used in feed crop production and on … to contribute one-third of the total discharge of mineral fertilizers from agricultural land to surface water …
Net Positive Impact for biodiversity. The business case
… and nearly half of the CEOs surveyed agreed that resource scarcity and climate change will transform their … biodiversity areas, becoming the developer of choice for resource holders, achieving cost reductions and innovations … will be an increasingly constrained business environment (resource depletion, tightening regulations, climate change …