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Water Management and Stewardship
… 77 4.8 Trade-offs … authors thank the representatives of companies, industry/trade associations, financial/investor institutions, donors, … can get ahead of their peers. As the World Bank has noted, trade becomes distorted when arid areas continue to produce … in water withdrawals, since in those circumstances trade-offs and compromises will often be necessary. …
Obligations - The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Protocol further attempts to address the problem of trade with countries that are not yet parties to the agreement (“non-parties”). It bans trade in controlled substances with non-parties unless they … with the former General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (“GATT”) rules, now WTO. Article XX (b and g) of GATT …
Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
… such as the multilateral environmental agreements, trade agreements, social and economic frameworks and others. … on Biological Diversity, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, … Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic …
Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure
… a shift in the way in which development and conservation trade-offs are calculated is required — moving from … and development sectors are well-aware of these trade-offs — and a host of policies, laws and institutional … measures and indicators have a strong infl uence on how trade-offs in coastal development are conceptualised and …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… within pastoral drylands requires reform of international trade policies that distort agricultural markets and … of pastoralism in a green economy. 2 2 with the globalized trade in animal products and feed crops. This requires … total transactions. Similarly, in Ethiopia the unofficial trade and illegal cross-border sales were estimated at USD …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… does not pretend to offer a blueprint for the complex trade-offs and policy choices involved with mitigating and … legal regimes governing climate change, human rights, trade and intellectual property, and encourage and fund … bodies dealing with human rights, climate change, trade and intellectual property issues (including under the …
Ozone Depletion - Chapter 9 - UNEP Training Manual on International Environmental Law
… Protocol further attempts to address the problem of trade with countries that are not yet parties to the agreement (“non-parties”). It bans trade in controlled substances with non-parties unless they … with the former General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (“GATT”) rules, now WTO. Article XX (b and g) of GATT …
The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Conference of the Parties and its validity
… January 2007). 6 For example, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the Convention on Biological … of the Parties’ was the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)25 … mechanism and joint implementation. X Wang, ‘Specific Trade Obligations and the Biosafety Protocol’ (2003) Bridges …
The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments
… reform and effective legislative reform 27 Box 2.9: World Trade Organization dispute on feed-in-tariffs 28 Box 2.10: … principle; Maintaining an acceptable balance of trade-offs; Providing a return on investment (i.e. social, … revenues raised from permit sales in carbon cap-and- trade schemes could be used to finance mitigation or adapta- …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… Boundaries and Negotiation 77 Introduction 77 Linkages and trade-offs 78 Seeking the best possible outcomes 79 … of multiple spatial scales and seeking negotiated trade-offs between scales. Chapter 5 shifts the emphasis to a … always possible, and it may be more realistic to look for trade- offs that may provide the best realistically possible …