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Transboundary Air Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… organic compounds (VOCs) and NO . VOCs come from a variety of sources including industrial operations, vehicles … values for specific emission sources (e.g., combustion plant, electricity production, dry cleaning, cars and …
31 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… increasingly focusing on indigenous people’s issues for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, their rights, … rely. • An aquaculture project will introduce a new fish variety that would be more affordable for consumers to buy. … fishing and subsistence rights. • A project aims to plant some monoculture plantations as a means of reforesting …
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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… example, telling developers that they need to buy land and plant trees or gazette land as a Protected Area or take some … involved in biodiversity offsets, but their number and variety place them beyond the scope of this report. Box 2: … Article 18 concerns the protection of animal and plant species and provides that, if, having taking all …
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Technical Guidelines on wastes collected from households (Y46)

… can be produced. Because household waste contains a large variety 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 …
31 May 2026 Document

Modern water rights : Theory and practice

… Property Rights ITPGRFA International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture IVM/IFM in … Office International des Epizooties OPU Ovum Pick-Up PGR Plant Genetic Resources PIC Prior Informed Consent SARD … concessions – they could be reduced or revoked for a wide variety of reasons. This system of water allocation went …
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… work on international watercourses was based on a wide variety of sources, including treaties and other forms of … shared freshwater resources, a duty that encompasses a variety of forms of cooperation ranging from sharing of data …
31 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities

… with any particular climate mod- el prediction. A variety of models have been developed, from one- dimensional … severe ever record- ed in the area and affected a wide variety of species and taxa along more than 1,000 km of these … of flowering could be a response mechanism by the plant to thermal stress and its prevalence and intensity may …
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WTO Panel Report on the "EC-Biotech" Case: Considerations for Trade and Development"

… their chosen level of protection for human, animal or plant life or health. In this regard, the EC–Biotech Panel … and enforce measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, and the need to restrict the use of … only to the extent necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, is based on scientific principles and …
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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

… to energy subsidies and their reform that arise in a variety of countries and regions, it does not strive for a … is produced by a single nuclear station. A second nuclear plant, Temelin, with two reactors, is in the process of being … industry. Construction of the second Slovak nuclear power plant would not have taken place without these subsidies. …
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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… fractions and hazardous chemicals. There are thus a wide variety of ways in which SMEs can and must be involved in the … Minister, Narendra Modi, got his hands dirty and dug in to plant a tree. Meanwhile, Brazilian authorities hosted an … textile industry to tour the latest wastewater treatment plant. The facility’s owner was eager to show me that the …
31 May 2026 Document