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Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… by the head of State. Acceptance has the same legal effect as ratification. Accession Act whereby a State becomes … Shorthand for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their … entered into force in 2004. The Protocol regulates the transboundary movement, transit, handling and use of living …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… Case Study 10 Guatemala and Mexico: Implementing transboundary water governance through community … when managing resources across boundaries (such as the transboundary water issues addressed in Case Study 10). … of concepts and approaches since their proponents have, in effect, transferred the responsibility of interpreting how to …
The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Conference of the Parties and its validity
… 9 For example, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their … the Vienna Convention,28 the Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their … standards or practices, usually as a means of giving effect to the more general provisions of framework …
Women’s participation and gender considerations in country representation, planning and reporting to the BRS Conventions
… mechanisms. This waste management system, including transboundary movement and often-unregulated disposal, … 3 THE BASEL CONVENTION The Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their … environmentally sound management techniques and regulating transboundary movements to restrict those that do not respect …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… States funded a proposal that involved the creation of a transboundary Biosphere Reserve which incorporated corridors … threatened by human activities. The creation of a transboundary ecological network in collaboration with local … programmed and supported so that they have maximum effect, both in relation to urgent priorities and to …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… birth or other status, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment … legal frameworks in order to prevent, reduce and remedy transboundary and global environmental harm that interferes … transbound- ary and global threats to human rights. Transboundary and global environmental harm can have severe …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… 32 21. Resolution of disputes over tenure rights 33 22. Transboundary matters 33 Responses to climate change and … spatial planning, resolution of disputes over tenure, and transboundary matters. 17. Records of tenure rights 17.1 … skills and competencies to provide such services. 22. Transboundary matters 22.1 States should cooperate, in the …
Enforcement of Environmental Law: Good Practices from Africa,Central Asia, ASEAN Countries and China
… the objective of putting international obligations into effect. For this reason, it is worth considering … with neighbours. Increasingly, environmental problems have transboundary dimensions and it is becoming more obvious that … creation of Regional Enforcement Networks which focus on transboundary movement of hazardous waste is a good practice …
Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… Protected Areas 53 Marine and Coastal Environment 56 1.3.2 Transboundary Environmental Issues 57 Ozone Depletion 57 … Provisions of Sri Lanka 154 5.3.3 State Sovereignty, Transboundary Issues and Environmental Law 156 5.4 … in the long-term, there is a time lapse between cause and effect which hides the contribution of humankind to this …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… BENEFIT-SHARING MECHANISM ............ 128 ARTICLE 11 TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION … 127 Article 11 Transboundary Cooperation … arising from the access to and use of those resources. In effect, with the entry into force of the CBD, a change of … unless countries choose to give a treaty such effect. Additionally, a treaty cannot apply to any act or …