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The three pillars of the Basel Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… 2011, the Conference of the Parties adopted the Cartagena Declaration on the Prevention, Minimization and Recovery of … and Other Wastes. Under paragraph 1 of the Cartagena Declaration, parties are committed to enhancing the active …
Security considerations in the planning and management of transboundary conservation areas
… each other, ranging from a bilateral treaty to a joint declaration, memorandum of agreement or letter of intention; … Convention on Climate Change (Rio de Janeiro, 1992); Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, … Instruments concerning respect for human rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights (New York, 1948); Convention on …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… in the environmental context is Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992). This … to environmental pro- tection in general in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and incorporated … the “serious or irreversible” harm mentioned in the Rio Declaration should be interpreted in the biodiversity …
Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… a development in the United States in 1969.3 The Stockholm Declaration (1972) does not explicitly refer to EIAs. … could be reached and the principle was not included in the Declaration [4,19]. A series of other non-binding instruments … at the Rio Conference. In 1992 Principle 17 of the Rio Declaration included the obligation to conduct an EIA for …
Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses
… International Whaling Commission, the St.Kitts and Nevis Declaration, and the Rio+20 Outcome Document Paragraphs on … from 5 to 16 June 1972, which produced the Stockholm Declaration (Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human …