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Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… pollutants; ii. Areas of pollution (air, water, marine and coastal, land/soil) including the cross-cutting … aspect of pollution that affects freshwater and marine environments. Plastics often originate on land or … environment and avoiding the use of new materials. In the area of water treatment, new technologies are being used to …
Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
… be more pronounced on regional scales. The Arctic is an area particularly sensitive to climate change and many … trophic level organisms. It is known, for example, that marine phytoplankton (primary producers) affect the abundance … humans may spend more time indoors as Mother and baby protected by mosquito net, Kenya IMPACT OF CliMATe CHAnGe On …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … of Bioprospecting: 183 A Comparative Analysis 4.1 Marine Organisms 185 4.2 Symbionts: Are they the true sources … 288 7.4.9.1 Public outreach 288 7.4.9.2 Collections in protected areas and collaboration with ANAM 288 7.4.9.3 The …
Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors
… serve as a useful resource for auditors worldwide in the area of MEAs and support for their growing work in the field … natural resources – such as wildlife, air and the marine environment. Examples include the 1971 Convention on … where several SAIs auditing an issue cooperatively. Border protected areas, shared bodies of water, trans-boundary air …
State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
… and of its associated ecosystem services, a number of protected areas have 1 UNEP, 2010. “Environment Outlook of … thus, between 1990 and 2008 the number of gazetted marine and terrestrial protected areas in Latin America and … representing more than 17 per cent of the original forest area.3 In Mexico, deforestation rates have declined: thus, …
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … other services, such as nursery habitat for fish and other marine species, firewood, building materials and medicine … Bali to protect 500 metres of coastline that is no longer protected by coral reefs. (Emerton, 2009) BOX 7 8 An analysis …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… and seagrass beds, but also coral reefs and other marine areas no deeper than six metres at low tide, as well … 4.3 on the effectiveness of Convention bodies, Key Result Area 4.3.i is also relevant to national institutional … on environmental protection, nature conservation, protected areas, environmental impact assessment and audits, …
UNEP. The first 40 years
… with a doctored birth-certificate enlisted in the merchant marine, signing on with a ship under contract to the US Army … internal consensus view. The absence of a proposal in this area was later used to deflect fears of specialized agencies … the importation of animals belonging to species which are protected in their natural habitat, unless it has been …
Legislating for property rights in fisheries
… or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of … that the creation of a form of exclusive property right in marine fisheries by the establishment of quotas promotes … the ultimate ownership title, which can be legally protected as such and which contrasts with mere possession. …
Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … for reptiles 78 2.6 Species conservation planning for marine fishes and invertebrates 79 2.7 Species conservation … participants in plan- ning will often be senior officers, protected area managers and possibly national-level …