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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… re can simultaneously support climate change adaptation and mitigation … delayed benefits. As climate change mitigation and adaptation financing becomes … weather forecasting and vulnerability mapping. Mitigation measures to address the …
The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment
… adjacent States about the possible impacts and potential mitigation measures.157 Similar provisions are found in the … impacts related to instream flows and providing for “mitigation and compensation by payment for resource losses … to use their water more prudently, and even to undertake mitigation measures to minimize the negative consequences …
Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation
… area legal frameworks to accommodate both adaptation and mitigation, including by creating corridors that ensure … to climate change impacts already underway and for mitigation of future change. It defines adaptation and mitigation as follows (Dudley et al., 2010, p. 7): • …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… Guiding Principles for the Prevention, Introduction and Mitigation of Impacts of Alien Species that Threaten … and developing procedures for their manage- ment and mitigation. While sometimes all threats will be clearly … law and policy. It emphasises anticipation, prevention and mitigation of uncertain risks, for which definitive …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… impact on ecosystem services elsewhere and thus faces a mitigation obligation im- posed by statutory law. While no … States’ Clean Water Act introduces a so-called wetland mitigation banking scheme. The Clean Water Act requires land … entity to do it for them. In other words, the wetland mitigation banking scheme al- lows developers to meet their …