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Ozone Depletion - Chapter 9 - UNEP Training Manual on International Environmental Law
… cataract blindness. Ultraviolet radiation can also affect plant life, damage forests and certain varieties of crops … of ozone depletion is to regulate and eliminate the production of CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances. II. … the high costs associated with measures that regulate production and consumption of these substances. Some states …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… Directive 92/43/EEC (European Commission) Habitat type. 'Plant and animal communities as the characterising elements … Habitat type. 'A homogeneous environment, including all plant and animal life and environmental factors that operate … depends on floods, and contributes to leaf litter production. Leaf litter production in turn provides nutrients …
Wildlife protection and trafficking assessment in Kenya - Drivers and trends of transnational wildlife crime in Kenya and its role as a transit point for trafficked species in East Africa
… the pressure on the few experts in the country in terms of production of reports and attendance at trial. • The lack of …
Technical Guidelines on wastes collected from households (Y46)
… degradation, being more concerned with the increased production of leachate resulting from such practices. Once in … of materials, including those which are not combustible, plant used to incinerate such waste needs to be rugged and … handling, be it at a transfer station, incineration plant or landfill site, will be easier and more hygienic. 5 …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… of hydropower gene- ration4 or cooling of an industrial plant. However, the timing of the river flow downstream of … to the river after use, presumably via a sewage treatment plant. However this may be some distance from the intake or … for the dominant services, e.g. irrigation or hydropower production, or envi- ronmental flows. The table below shows …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… Peruana de Derecho Ambiental - Perú), Warwick Manfrinato (Plant BR - Brasil), Sabrina Macedo (Ambiental PV - Brasil), … gratefully acknowledge the financial contributions to the production of this book provided by the Swiss Agency for … in the world, with between 43,000 and 49,520 identified plant species, more than 3,000 species of fresh- water fish, …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… potato varieties through videos in the local language and production of medicines for local sale. Native species are … Region, the setting of the case study below, has the most plant species of any of the world’s six floral kingdoms and … vision of stopping the degradation and loss of indigenous plant and animal communities, managing their land in a …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… the extent that this applies to wetland-reliant animal and plant species (corals, crocodiles, certain fish…). 3.0 … property or fallow land which is not in agricultural production: such provisions are not specific to wetlands but … access to and introduction of different varieties of plant and animal species, including non- indigenous or alien …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… against climatic extremes all enable human consumption, production and settlement to take place. Natural systems such … terms. The forest contains several endemic afro-alpine plant species as well as commercially valuable Juniperus, … in Kampala. Both the outflow of the only sewage treatment plant in the city, at Bugolobi, and − far more importantly, …
Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… Habitat Types of Community Interest), Annex II (Animal and Plant Species of Community Interest), Annex IV (Strictly … found in the field surveys can be referred to particular plant or animal marine species that contribute to … to dispose of or discharge liquid or solid wastes from production or processing or any other materials that have …