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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

… extreme poverty by 2030. All people must enjoy a basic standard of living, including through social protection … annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of …
26 May 2026 Literature

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… cap on pollution (or resource use), issues individual emission (or use) permits matched by an equivalent number of … food. Increasing wealth with its concomitant rise in the standard of living in certain regions puts pressure on water … (art. 2(6) et seq.). State parties are required to set emission limits for discharges of hazardous substances from …
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Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity

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Issues in water law reform

… of a 'water unit' (known as a Aregador) as the standard unit measurement of water applied to every river in … which could result in a reduction of the amount of the "emission fee" (art. 93(3)). 134 These amendments provide for … publico hidraulico) (article 104), for the payment of an "emission fee" (canon de vertido) which should be employed for …
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Marine Pollution and Ballast Waters

… of special areas in which more stringent discharge and emission standards for polluting substances apply. The …
26 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… ciples. One of these principles determines that the latter standard revokes the previous standard, i.e. it takes … to prior authorisation or to general rules laying down emission limits; b) discharges of hazardous substances are … measures, in order to ensure, inter alia, that: a. The emission of pollutants is prevented, controlled and reduced …
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Marine litter legislation: a toolkit for policy makers

… ASTM D7081-05 was the sole performance specification standard referring to the biodegradation of plastic materials … of burning, incinerating (with energy recovery and emission control, allowing potentially harmful substances to … for types of solid waste for incineration and air emission limits. In 2008, Chile enacted the renewable …
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Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management

… including UNCLOS 1982 (see articles 192 194). The precise standard of conduct which a State must adhere to is expressed … harm. This does not prescribe a particular outcome or standard that must be achieved (e.g. a minimum threshold of … tribunal would apply sustainable development as a standard and decide that a State had failed to ensure that a …
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Vessel-Based Sources of Marine Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… the oceans is estimated at one million tonnes dumped in standard operations and 200,000 tonnes spilled in tanker … can be discharged into them. The most recent vessel standard developed by the IMO is the Hong Kong International …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… provisions call for harmonized domestic regulations for emission limits and standards (Article 7(5)(a)), harmonized … out various forms of environmental assessment as its standard procedure for ensuring satisfactory environmental … in the prevention and mitigation of forest fire and other emission sources; • Establish a mechanism for co-operation in …
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