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Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas

… globally. Although they represent only about 0.1% of the total number of protected areas globally, natural WHS cover … ARIES models were developed, tested and refined over a total period of about 9 months. SolVES data were derived from … products, water provisioning (quantity, quality), fish catch, carbon, natural hazard mitigation (flood, drought, …
31 May 2026 Literature

Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law

… (WTO), Introduction 4 world food exports had reached a total value of US$543 billion per year in 2003. This figure … population growth has occasionally outpaced the growth of total fish supply, consumption is expected to rise again, in … worldwide, although this is only a small fraction of the total volume of processed food. Despite much scientific …
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Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands

… with infected domestic birds and their products. 3. The total number of wild birds known to have been affected has … the incidence of HPAI outbreaks has already exceeded the total number of outbreaks recorded for the entire 20th … (BirdLife International 2007). 30. However, the total number of wild birds known to have been affected has …
31 May 2026 Document

An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… and the Importance of Genetic Resources4 Sector Size of total market in 2006 Importance of genetic resources … on Biological Diversity. Introduction 5 Sector Size of total market in 2006 Importance of genetic resources … sharing mechanism. Article 10 was constructed as a “catch-all” provision addressing situations where ABS …
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Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture

… Seed Treaty (Rome, 3 Novem- ber 2001), adding up to a total of 12 meetings (see Annex 1 of this book for a list of … simply a group of consensus proposals prepared under my total responsibility, after listening to and analysing what … meetings Date Meeting African African African countries Total number of African Commission IU represented delegates …
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Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers

… at which an estimated 83 000 people were present. In total, the Commission collected 4 000 pages of evidence and … disputes relating to such issues as fishery resources and catch-sharing issues. The process allows users – including …
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An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

… over this matter. Ambient standards set the maximum allowable levels of a pollutant in the environment, taking … the natural and human resources of our continent for the total advancement of our peoples in spheres of human … re- sources, c) the conservation of forested and other catch- ment areas and the co-ordination and plan- ning of …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… used in the area of interest cause accidental by- • catch (for example, by hunting with nets, traps, poison or … to address illegal activities, and increasing the legal allowable cut may function better than increasing the … the percentage of crimes solved by the police out of the total criminal incidents that came to their attention …
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The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

… to ensure an exchange of information on best practices, to catch problem areas in Parties hav- ing difficulty with … • Landfills receiving more than 10 tons per day or with a total capacity exceed- ing 25,000 tons, excluding landfills … tribunal will be formed. Pursuant to paragraph 2, a total of three arbitrators will constitute the tribunal. If …
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UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… systems in the Convention is important given that the total volume of groundwater represents 97 percent of our … which River X flows upon leaving states A and B. The total amount of water available to state C from the river, … for new industrial projects along the river in order to catch up. State A does not intend to limit pollutant …
31 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater