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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… CBD Aichi Target 15, the UNFCCC REDD+ goal, and the Rio+20 land degra- dation neutral goal. 4 5 Acknowledgements The … an online learning module on national assessments; and • access to trained facilitators who have experience in … goals related to combatting desertification and land degradation. The response to the Bonn Challenge has been …
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Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors

… by promoting equitable arrangements, for example regarding access to fresh water within an international watercourse … seeks to bring together agriculture, forestry, fishery, land use and nature conservation in new ways. The UN … of national parks and protected areas (both on land and in coastal waters), regulate exploitation …
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MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… me that it would have been very helpful to have had access to this handbook back in 1972. At that time we still … Antarctica, for example is considered terra nullius or land that is not the sovereign territory of any country, like … • climate change • international waters • ozone • land degradation • persistent organic pollutants Capacity …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Managing Natural World Heritage

… aimed explicitly at World Heritage managers and staff. • Access to dedicated support units at UNESCO Headquarters in … an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands …
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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… aimed explicitly at World Heritage managers and staff. • Access to dedicated support units at UNESCO Headquarters in … an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… any forest produce or minerals; e. clear or break up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; f. poison or … forest, in such a manner as to endanger the reserved land. Offences in reserved forest. Subject to the provisions … new fishing lots or industrial fishing in the open access areas; Exporting and importing all types of natural …
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Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues

… water. Efforts by governments and agencies to expand access to water for basic human needs will undoubtedly … Some countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are buying land for food production in other countries (e.g., Su- dan, … areas, groundwater storage may become non-renewable. Major land use change can also affect large scale atmospheric …
25 May 2026 Document

Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… acknowledge UNEP and Zbigniew Niewiadomski for providing access to their questionnaire which partly formed the basis … 1. Transboundary Protected Area is defined as “an area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more borders between … initiatives also help maintain or restore traditional land use practices. From an economic standpoint, …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 4. “Polluter Pays Principle” Application Examples 5. Access and Benefit Sharing regarding Natural Resources … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Preamble para. 5), and the 2001 Stockholm … http://informea.org/treaties/land-based …
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Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit

… Professor and Vice Head of Institute, Contaminated Land Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied … Initiatives 12 1.4 Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Land Acquisition 12 1.5 Permissible Levels of POPs in the … to the low levels of contaminants detected. • Though access to the site is supposed to be restricted, in reality …
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