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Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities
… context, Marine Protected Areas increase the adaptive capacity of coastal and marine communities and buffer potential climate change impacts. Building the capacity of MPAs through data collection, monitor- ing and …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… to potential growth in demand for surface water storage capacity. Key messages and recommendations • Growth in demand … as “natural infrastructure” and can provide water storage capacity under certain conditions. • The Ramsar Convention … has led directly to a period of reduced activity in dam building as the implications of the Commission’s report were …
Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… monitoring at least at some level, and the possibility of building this into a more formal process within SSC is being … prioritized sustainable use, on which we already had more capacity. We expect a great focus on human-wildlife … on the ‘Status of Wild Cattle in South Asia’. • Capacity building on small population management skills: Over …
UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders
… environmental defenders are subjected to. This includes building on and provide resources and tools for engagement by … and the Environment, defenders, the Office of the the capacity of States between human rights and High Commissioner … rights for environmental stakeholders, for example building on the existing online Rapporteur on Human Rights …
Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter Management for the wider Caribbean Region 2014
… and storm drains significantly reduces water carrying capacity, which in turn contributes to excess flooding and … food wrappers and containers among others are the building blocks of the marine litter issue (UNEP- CEP/RCU, … design and siting of non-sanitary landfills, poor planning capacity and ineffective policy frameworks (de Cuba, Burgos, …
Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management
… • coastal management objectives can best be achieved by building co- operative and co-ordinated approaches to … (b) conserve and manage sharks; (c) to manage fishing capacity; and (d) to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, … working with natural processes and respecting the carrying capacity of ecosystems, which will make human activities more …
Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… situation. Possible reasons for this include a lack of capacity to gather, assess and provide credible information, … transparency of Party performance plays a crucial role in building mutual trust and promoting compliance, information … The former are soft instruments, consisting mostly of capacity-building 20 Tuula Kolari, “Promoting Compliance with …
Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses
… to strengthen environmental governance and negotiation capacity around the world, our aim is to help present and … enforcement questions, and international environmental capacity-building issues. On 17 October 2003, Mr. Shafqat Kakakhel, …