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Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… A B S S eries N o. 4 IUCN Environmental Law Programme Environmental Law Centre Godesberger Allee … written contract 54 2.3.4 Other concepts: ‘Governing law,’ customary law, traditional law and private international law … countries. 2.3.4 Other concepts: ‘Governing law,’ customary law, traditional law and private international law …
Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… DEL/1347/NA Produced by UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions Director of Publication: Bakary Kante … of the noncompliance procedure and an explanation of the customary practices of the Implementation Committee. In this … regard to the first category of recommendations, it is customary for the Committee to incorporate a deadline for the …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… 233 Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) … when certain soft law documents are deemed to reflect customary international law, and thus are binding; but such … State succession was not new and was already recognized by customary international law, Nyerere is recognized for the …
Assessing the international forest regime
… Regime Edited by Richard G. Tarasofsky IUCN Environmental Law Centre IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 37 … and local communities and to protect and encourage the customary uses of biological resources in accordance with traditional customary practices compatible with the conservation and …
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report
… non-State actors. Nevertheless, international human rights law makes it clear that business enterprises, the media and … 18. While States are bound by international human rights law, non -State actors are required to respect human rights, … the rights of indigenous peoples, their land rights and customary title to territories and resources; (b) Formulate …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… forestry and greening Lidija Knuth for the Development Law Service FAO Legal Office 32 0 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS … the Forest Conservation Service (FORC) and the Development Law Service (LEGN), for their support throughout this study. … documents, strategies and programmes, as well as relevant customary rules. In doing so, the following checklist should …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… between WCPA and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL), and between IUCN and many partners. IUCN is … creation of a single management authority for the TBPA; e) customary or vernacular resource management agreements that … the International Criminal Court (New York, 1995); � The customary law of war and the IUCN Draft Convention on the …
White Paper - Regional Seas Governance
… .. . 21 2. The Global Framework for the Law of the Sea … and international rules from other sources, including customary international law. The cornerstones of the current … as the Rio Declaration,82 and is now arguably also part of customary international law. Part XII deals in principle only …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… and Crimes (UNODC), Asia Pacific Center for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore (APCEL), US Department … products & by-products in a community forest that exceed customary user rights defined by rules on community forestry. … selected animals species in some areas and some seasons as customary hunt or catch will be allowed by using the tools …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… on Ecosystem Management, World Commission on Environmental Law, the World Commission on Protected Areas, Commission on … land to which indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities hold customary rights. Efforts are also needed to ensure …