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Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management
… Area 76 Case Study 15 The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park’s Environmental Management Charge 76 Case Study 16 Accurate … on local communities, Indigenous peoples’ rights, benefit-cost sharing, poverty, gender equity, food security and … mining, shipping, energy and recreation). Using spatial allocation management models to differentiate between ocean …
Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world
… Assessment, Canada 8 Exploration, Anglo American 10 Environmental Impact Assessments, Noranda 12 Environmental … in time based on existing, incomplete knowledge. Though cost and time constraints preclude it, ideally it would be … environmental concerns through optimisation of resource allocation, transparent assignment of responsibility and …
Handbook of The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
… is widely regarded as one of the most successful global environmental agreements in history. The Ozone Treaties hold … This includes information on: (a) The availability and cost of chemical substitutes and of alternative technologies … of the institutional arrangements for making decisions on allocation of funds, with a specific proposal to meet the …
Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions
… their time and personnel more efficiently to generate environmental awareness about the importance and benefits of … identified, advanced common solutions to cross border environmental challenges. EcoPeace widened the constituencies … (Triglav). The project led to a joint agreement for the allocation of resources (money and staff time) toward …
Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… of the issues related to ABS from social, economic and environmental perspectives so that the Regime, once adopted, … of legislation, the formulation of policies or the allocation of resources (Guidelines 18-33, UNEP 2002). States … be noted that punishment involves not only a material cost, but also a public expression of the international …
Gender Action Plan of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BRS-GAP) for 2016-2017
… poverty eradication, health, education, gender equality, environmental sustainability and the global partnership for … is available on the indicators identified Gender Task Team Cost-neutral (staff costs only) Done UNEP/CHW.12/INF/49, … gender-balance in co- chairing - Gender balance in allocation of roles in meetings, particularly the co-chairs …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… Sustainability – Fifth Edition: Updated Text The Environmental Law Programme of IUCN, International Union for … lack reference to “serious or irreversible damage” or to cost-effectiveness . Jurisprudence also supports the legal … Paragraph 10 .5 of Agenda 21, which seeks to “facilitate allocation of land to the uses that provide the greatest …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 government … to the district or municipal administration concerning the allocation of such land to individuals or organizations for … in terms of loss of ecosystem services and in terms of the cost of addressing conflicts arising from non-recognition, …
Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… sector 19 4.2 Commercial and retail banking 19 4.2.1 Environmental risk management by commercial banks 19 4.2.2 … each year, whereas the costs of action now is estimated to cost about 1% GDP per year. xi� P ho to © E ve ry st oc kp ho … forestry and indigenous people’s rights, as well as the allocation of funding to fight illegal logging. The protests …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… contribution to human devel- opment, but the social and environmental costs have, in too many cases, been … Bank has produced criteria for assessing likely adverse environmental impacts of dams (Ledec & Quintero 2003) and has … (River basin management); • Handbook 10, 4th edition (Allocation and management of water for maintaining the …