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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… and sustainable land management interventions. Agreeing on standard indicators will facilitate cross-country comparison … LDN should take a “no net loss” approach as a minimum standard. Ideally countries would achieve net positive …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… is a model work and will, undoubtedly, become the standard training manual in the field for the UN Watercourses … of three domains:208 (1) Need | Mitigation strategies and emission caps should leave room for eradicating poverty and … quo right by maintaining the relative differences in emission levels between them.210 Applying a horizontal …
Defenders of the Earth
… with potentially affected groups.P IFC Performance Standard 7 too articulates expectations upon investors in … recorded data about the cases using the HURIDOCS Event Standard Formats and Micro-Thesauri, an approach which is … ‘Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Africa: An Emerging Standard for Extractive Industry Projects’. pp. 27-35. …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… ensure sustainability?', Ecological Economics 11:93-104 Standard measures of economic growth do not adequately … of this welfare measure. These results are compared with standard national accounts. Greener measures of wealth per …
Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)
… of the range of wastes to be accepted, agreement on emission/discharge limits, satisfactory completion of … determinant should be tested for each type and source of emission from the facility, whether solid, liquid or gas. For … is unlikely, or at worst - minimal. A lack of globally standard terminology in this area results in several …
Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods
… for ecosystem services, including markets for carbon emission reduction and sequestration, watershed management, … resources as shown by trends in forest cover, emission of greenhouse gases, and energy use. Reporting on … in ecosystem services is the growing market in carbon emission reduction and sequestration services. Valued at …
Water as a human right?
… Art. 25 proclaims “[e]veryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of … an indication of certain factors essential for an adequate standard of living. Satisfying the standards of the … and thereby contribute further to climate change. The emission of GHGs from reservoirs due to rotting vegetation …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… anomalies greater than 1°C and anomalies that exceed 3 standard deviations in places. There are, however, pronounced … varying between 1°C and more than 3°C depending on the emission scenarios used, with the greatest warming in the … Llovel et al., 2014). Modelling studies based on different emission scenarios indicate that temperature increases of 0.5 …