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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… radioactive substances. Some types of renewables may have adverse environmental consequences too, such as the … And removing subsidies to coal can have a devastating effect on employment and incomes in local communities that … any measures to deal with pollution were adopted. The adverse environmental effects in the region were compounded …
POPs Chemicals - Decabromodiphenyl ether (Commercial mixture, c-decaBDE)
… mammals. Particularly, they can cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment. SCCPs may cause … damage when inhaled at higher levels. It may have an adverse effect to fatty liver degeneration as well. According to the …
Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
… (or better) fashion, for any residual sig- nificant adverse impacts that cannot be avoided or minimized, in order … of Threatened SpeciesTM 17. ... not lead to measurable adverse impacts on those biodiversity values for which the …
Issues in water law reform
… debate about whether this formula had the necessary effect of abolishing the rights of riparian land owners. … in the absence of damage, simply to prevent prescriptive adverse title being acquired. In policy terms, the need to … existing and projected quality of water in the area; • any adverse effect that the allocation or use of water under the …
A Guide to Cooperation on the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
… seeks to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of hazardous and other wastes. Its member … hazardous wastes in ways that minimize significant adverse effects on human health and the environment by the …
Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
… to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of the generation, management, transboundary … will protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects which may result from such wastes. It also … by other international treaties. Thus, the replicate effect is high. XI. The return on investments in the …
Environmental Security and the Role of Law
… was that ‘[e]nvironmental stress is both a cause and an effect of political tension and military conflict’:4 On the … mini- mize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or … population movements The Earth’s changing climate and the adverse effects thereof are a security concern to humankind. …
Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses
… was that ‘[e]nvironmental stress is both a cause and an effect of political tension and military conflict’:4 On the … mini- mize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or … population movements The Earth’s changing climate and the adverse effects thereof are a security concern to humankind. …